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cam2s

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I’ve been being very selective about what I buy lately but this 5 dollar Olympia one did manage to follow me home the other day. The question is that the original PN for it? I thought the Olympias had a brown PN-4, this one is a PN-2.

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Electrolux

You have the later Olympia.You are right that all would have brown painted PN-4.The PN-2 would have been on later 1205,Golden J are first Super J.Later SJ would have polished PN-4.First Silverado would have gray PN-4,later with grey PN-5.One great feature of Elux is that so many bags,hoses,attachments & Power Nozzles will interchange among many models.Your PN-2 has the 3 piece hold down to stop cord from vibrating loose and shorting out.
 
Gee

What a nice Olympia for the money. One of Electrolux’s best machines. I only hope to find one one day like that inexpensive at a thrift store.

Jon
 
That is indeed a nice Olympia One. If it were mine, I wouldn't worry one bit about it having an older power nozzle; of course, the PN2 is a favorite of mine. The PN4 and PN4A are nice nozzles too but I'm not particularly fond of the painted variants because scratches show up so badly, especially on the brown ones. I really like the polished aluminum of the PN2's and early PN4's.

Enjoy your new acquisition!
 
I used to sell Electrolux

It was customary for the salesman to visit homes to see if the owners needed anything. Most of the time bags were needed. If they complained about a loss of suction maybe a hose. I had quite a few clients that did not need a new power nozzle but the old vacuum needed replacing. So that said sometimes the power nozzle was shot so I would just sell a power nozzle. Maybe the original owners already had a hardly used power nozzle and just bought the vacuum
 
When I had my 1205 restored i got a pn4 with it. I finally got a pn2 a couple weeks ago and i like the pn2 better. They both do a good job grooming the carpet but with my carpet the pn4 because of how its designed raises up on the the push forward breaking the seal with the carpet. The pn2 seals to the carpet both forward and backward.
 
I kinda figured that the original customer had been sold a replacement power nozzle for whatever reason. If that was the case though you would think it would have a newer one than what originally came it with, not an older. I think I have to say that I like the PN 4 better though. I have a thick green rug that is a challenge the vacuum. The PN 4 pushes through it easily where the PN 2 plows through it and it hard to push. I think the purpose of the upward motion on the forward stroke was the allow the nozzle to be able to take it large debris and not push it around, then the nozzle would dig in on the reverse stroke.
 
Could have been a vac shop rebuild. Those machines are so old now, they are likely to have been traded in at one point in their lives, rebuilt, and sold by a vac shop.

This is how it is supposed to look with all original pieces.

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Dysonman is correct. My family's one was sold rebuilt and it had the chrome power nozzle (dont know the number offhand), a random grab bag of OEM used electrolux attachments that went to a myriad of other models, and an ugly vinyl hose. The vacuum was pretty much all original otherwise from what I can tell today, so it wasn't all a bad deal. No idea how much it cost though. But it lasted several years anyway after the rebuild after already existing for....40 years at that time? Last I seen it last year in the garage, somehow the bag door latch busted off, so that will be addressed eventually.
 

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