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Well, this thread certainly has wandered all over the place.
To bring it back on-topic:
I went over to the vac shop today to see about getting a brush roll for my mystery Kirby, which I have dubbed the "Super Janitronic 560."
The 18-inch Royal brush roll doesn't work. The end caps are hexagonal shaped and way too large to attempt to whittle down narrowly enough to fit into the rug nozzle.
The Kirby Classic brush roll is only 16 inches long. I thought about getting one anyway and seeing if I could insert inch-long wooden pieces in each end of the rug nozzle to take up the extra space, but that would be "iffy" and most likely wouldn't work. Without the end caps being secured inside the slots, the brush roll would probably wobble and vibrate all over the place and ruin the brush-roll bearings and maybe even the front motor bearing.
I poked around their multiple "back rooms-o-junk" and didn't find anything that even came close to fitting. (I did, however, find a couple of other treasures that I'll post about after I clean them up and make them presentable -- a Hoover turquoise Convertible and a Eureka "Vibra-Groomer" upright that's really beautiful, with a brushed-aluminum motor cover.)
So I'm pretty much stuck right now, unless someone can come up with a Super Sweep nozzle for me.
[this post was last edited: 8/2/2014-16:36]