The Kenmore High Desert Restoration Center is not proud of how staff had to kludge reinforcements on it's current small Kenmore of that vintage to addd some degree of strength to it's repair the vacuums broken handle. The Center became quite fond of that model vacuum and would be loathe to ruin another using duct tape to retain the pre-motor filter,
Jimmy, do you have any of these circular filter frames in that warehouse you are cleaning out? It seems there is another worthy old Kenmore lacking only one important part.