Lux Turquoise G and Super J
Several folks on here, (Fred Nelson, Keith and Charles Lester for starters), inspired me to go to my storage unit and dig out these vacs for photo shots to share. My husband and I are building a new home and yesterday we went to see how it was coming along. The storage unit was on the way much to my husbands dismay. He is not into vacs.
The first pic is my G and the J. The G is all complete and original. It has the early PN-1 with no reset button and no clean out hole underneath. The J was brought to me by a man when I still had the vacuum business for a, "go over". He never returned to pick it up.
Then a turquoise G, "glam shot".
On the J, I replaced the original hose which was falling into shreds with a genuine Lux hose that I had. I also replaced the brush roll and belt as I had NOS to use up.
I told him at delivery time, I would upgrade his PN-4 with a PN-5 from a Diamond Jubilee that I was parting outand he would get much better results. See next pics.
Finally, after all the talk about the replacement pigtail hose.......at the time Fred got one several years ago, I decided to do the same so we could use our older vacs with much more suction, (due to the braided hoses failing), and the newer hoses were much more flexible. We've probably all knocked something off a table with those stiff braided hoses.
Last month I found a NOS PN-1693 on ebay and bought it. It was still wrapped in plastic and in the Lux box! I thought that was one of the best PNs that Lux produced and if I am not mistaken, it came on the Ultralux in the color scheme pictured.
So, I put the new hose and PN on the G and it makes one hellava cleaner! Those G's has a unique exhaust odor---sort of like cloves with a hint of cinnamon. I'm using the evacuumstore blue HEPA C bags in all of these older Luxes as they provide the best filtration IMO. Pics show vac off and then on with the PN headlight on.
Since most of us are in some level of quarantine it sure is fun to bring out the old vacs and get creative.
