If it is like any of my several Ryobi made Singer vacuums the plastic is terribly brittle and fragile. Nice to look at in a collection but not something you want to use. While moving a Singer power nozzle of roughly the same vintage slid off the end of the wand onto deep pile carpet from a height of no more than two and a half feet off the carpet. It shattered like glass ! No parts anywhere for them either. I was lucky in that the upper half popped off with minimal damage that is not visible and there was an NOS lower half in about the right color on eBay I bought but that was sheer luck.