I’ve done it.
I did it long long ago, back in 1990 to a small Hoover port a power canister. Having had mostly Electrolux and extra Electrolux parts, I did the following...opened up the porta power canister and wired in at the power switch an Electrolux power nozzle sheath cord...I cut off the male end and stripped back the wires to wire into the ports a power is switch. I drilled a hole in the plastic of the porta power’s handle area somewhere close to the switch the right size to have the sheath cord thread through. The end result was a short cord hanging with the female end of It there for plugging in the power nozzle wiring. I then used a wrap around the hose power nozzle wing set that I had retrieved from some other vacuum, then I think I used a second unaltered Electrolux pn-1 blue sheath sheath cord, (the longer one) To go between the power nozzles cord and the wrap around hose wiring. I used a blue Electrolux pn-1 for the power nozzle as it fit the Hoover wand. I used the vacuum for my college dorm room as I had yellow shag carpet I had recovered from somewhere as my dorm room carpet. I gave the vacuum away to a friend when I graduated.
Doing this this way was pretty simple because I only had to drill a small round hole to thread the cord through to equip the unit with the power nozzle outlet. It was very inexpensive I would advise though if drilling through a metal body to fit the hole with some sort of bushing so as to avoid the possibility of the sharp metal edges from cutting the cord which could cause the metal body to become electrified. If you can do it at a plastic spot that’s definitely better too.
I’ve also kept the wiring set up from an old Electrolux model G that I had stripped one time. All the parts easily come off the body for the port. It was the setup where the outlet is located down by the front bottom wheel. It included the outlet itself, the full wiring that runs to the switch, the surface mount metal box the outlet mounts to And the metal cord cover that runs along the bottom of the body of the vacuum. Also included was the rubber bushing where the wire entered through the metal of the body of the vacuum. Some people part out the old model L’s (And these parts were also used on some model G’s, AF’s and R’s) on eBay and you might be able to buy all these parts to use on another vacuum. Electrolux also sometimes put the port on the top metal trim on some AF’s and G’s and most rebuilt Gks and this one doesn’t have the cover for the port or the wire or the bushing, because it is configured differently as it is mounted directly into an existing top trim piece and the wire runs under it back to the switch which Is on top of the unit but just further back.
Jon
