Riccar® model № 1500P.2 canister vacuum hose assembly

[Flâneur]

Hello!

I am interested in acquiring a spare hose assembly for my Riccar® model № 1500P.2 canister vacuum. The hose assembly's part number is "D362-0410" per the manufacturer's parts booklet (though I have seen a few on-line parts resellers use the part number "3623210410", as well).

The manufacturer designed the hose assembly in such a way that the hose tends to kink near its connection to the handle subassembly. Years of said kinking resulted in work-hardening of the wires in the hose, leading ultimately to their breaking and only intermittent functioning of the vacuum cleaner's power nozzle. I cut open the hose and successfully repaired the wires, but I cannot manage to mend the hose itself. Needless to say, I will store any replacement hose assembly disconnected from the wand assembly, in future.

Happy Thanksgiving!

 

[centralsweeper63]

I hope you can find one.

 

[Flâneur]

I hope you can find one.

@centralsweeper63

Thank you for the message.

Based on your experience, would you assess my chances of finding a spare hose assembly decent or slim?

 

[cheesewonton]

Stalk ebay. They turn up. One sold last month.

 

[centralsweeper63]

I was going to suggest the same thing. One will turn up given time.

 

[centralsweeper63]

Also, you might want to get a small pile of bags for if they are discontinued at some point.

 

[Flâneur]

Stalk ebay. They turn up. One sold last month.

I was going to suggest the same thing. One will turn up given time.

@cheesewonton @centralsweeper63

Understood. I will make it a point to browse eBay® listings at least weekly, if not more often.

I saw that there was a hose assembly sold on eBay® ostensibly as recently as October 5th; however, because eBay® seems not to display the year with the listing or selling date (whichever it is), I was unsure if the listing was posted or the sale made in a previous year. Thank you for the clarification!

 

[cheesewonton]

@cheesewonton @centralsweeper63

Understood. I will make it a point to browse eBay® listings at least weekly, if not more often.

I saw that there was a hose assembly sold on eBay® ostensibly as recently as October 5th; however, because eBay® seems not to display the year with the listing or selling date (whichever it is), I was unsure if the listing was posted or the sale made in a previous year. Thank you for the clarification!

True story, this past weekend I found an upper bearing and brush holder for a Hoover Dial-A-Matic. They are made of Bakelite and are very brittle, so it is basically impossible to change a worn out upper bearing without breaking it. It is maybe the only reason I don't use my working D-A-M ( one for show and one for go ) very often. Persistence paid off.

 

[centralsweeper63]

Very good!

 

[huskyvacs]

How badly is it damaged? You can buy heat-shrink wrapping for electrical cables that comes in large sheets for repairing big wires and maybe you might be able to reseal the hose using that.

 

[centralsweeper63]

It likely has an air leak too.

 

[Flâneur]

True story, this past weekend I found an upper bearing and brush holder for a Hoover Dial-A-Matic. They are made of Bakelite and are very brittle, so it is basically impossible to change a worn out upper bearing without breaking it. It is maybe the only reason I don't use my working D-A-M ( one for show and one for go ) very often. Persistence paid off.

@cheesewonton

I am glad that you were able to find the spare parts of which you were in need. The more‐often‐than‐not inability to service consumer products is something which irritates me. The field in which I work — the design and operation of manufacturing equipment — is different, in this respect; replacement parts and in‐house serviceability are more commonplace. ( I concede, though, that, in the case of your Hoover® Dial‐a‐matic™ vacuum cleaner, it might be more so a case of the state of polymer science at the time and not so much one of a lack of design for maintenance.)

 

[Flâneur]

How badly is it damaged? You can buy heat-shrink wrapping for electrical cables that comes in large sheets for repairing big wires and maybe you might be able to reseal the hose using that.

It likely has an air leak too.

@huskyvacs

The wires running the length of the hose were in poor condition: where the hose habitually kinked ( due to insufficient reinforcement, on the part of the manufacturer ), both wires had been work‐hardened to the point of complete fracture. The electricity being delivered to the vacuum cleaner’s power nozzle was likely arcing the break, as evidenced by the scorched insulation on either side thereof.

I was able to restore electrical continuity by cutting out the kinked section of the hose and soldering back together the halves of each of the two wires. ( I used electrical tape to insulate the splices, given my lack of a heat gun.) Unfortunately, mending the hose proved too difficult a task for me.

It was not my original intention to excise an entire section of the hose; rather, I had intended to make incisions along the helical ribs ( containing the wires ) running the length of the hose, to remove the damaged sections of wiring and to slice in new wire segments ( of the same gauge, if not the same aᴍᴡ style ) to compensate for the lost length of wiring.

Sadly, due to an unforeseen hose wall geometry, the very first cut which I made breached the hose, at which point I decided to pivot to the ill‐conceived idea of cutting out the entire kinked section of hose. All of this to say that @centralsweeper63 was correct in his or her assertion that there was likely also an air leak ( of my own making ) and that heat‐shrink tubing cannot quite mend the hose at this point.

To be sure, I very much appreciate the input.

 

[centralsweeper63]

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