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Y'all may recall that a while back -- in fact, a year ago almost to the day -- I gussied up a Royal canister machine that I had found in the junk pile of a local vac shop.
The Royal did not come with anything but a non-functioning power nozzle and mismatched dusting attachments, so I adapted a spare set of Kirby Legend II wands and floor nozzles. (They proved to be too light-weight for that long hose and they flopped all over the place and I didn't like them.)
I also installed a beautiful chrome-plated cord winder from an older Royal that I had found on eBay a long time ago. It was a brand-new OEM replacement that I got for just a couple of bucks and I was finally able to put it to use.
For the next round of vivesection, I removed the ugly and ungainly tool caddy that it came with. (To me, it made that sleek machine look like it had a beer belly!)
I kept the original extra-long maroon hose but grafted an Electrolux handle onto it. I removed the power nozzle hardware and pigtail connector from the machine-end coupler since I didn't plan to ever use it with a power nozzle.
Finally, I outfitted it with a set of Electrolux aluminum wands and white Electrolux combination attachments.
I was thinking right from the get-go that dark-gray attachments would look better with the maroon color of the machine, so I began looking for them. Plus, I didn't really like the original hose. It was just too long.
I knew that the dark gray combination attachments from the Aerus Lux Platinum would look nice, but the cost for new ones is ridiculously high. So I started going around and asking folks if they had any spares I could get for a bit lower than a new set, and one at a time the attachments came to me at very reasonable prices.
The last thing I found, purely by luck in a bunch of other stuff another vacuum cleaner collector gave me, was a Kirby G4 hose. I've seen two different styles of G4 hoses, one dark-gray with matching dark-gray connectors, and one lighter-gray with dark-gray connectors. I don't know which came first but I had gotten both of them, and the all-dark-gray one matched the other "new Royal" accessories the best. Attaching the machine end of the hose to the coupler was just a piece of cake, and I liked how I was able to eliminate the large and bulky casing for the power nozzle wiring that I thought was just plain ugly.
So here you have it, in all its radiant glory ... the ROYAL-LUX! I changed the name to Royal-Lux rather than my original name Electro-Royal, because Electro-Royal sounds too much like Electro-Hygiene.
"Just Another Day in Sweeper Paradise..."
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Y'all may recall that a while back -- in fact, a year ago almost to the day -- I gussied up a Royal canister machine that I had found in the junk pile of a local vac shop.
The Royal did not come with anything but a non-functioning power nozzle and mismatched dusting attachments, so I adapted a spare set of Kirby Legend II wands and floor nozzles. (They proved to be too light-weight for that long hose and they flopped all over the place and I didn't like them.)
I also installed a beautiful chrome-plated cord winder from an older Royal that I had found on eBay a long time ago. It was a brand-new OEM replacement that I got for just a couple of bucks and I was finally able to put it to use.
For the next round of vivesection, I removed the ugly and ungainly tool caddy that it came with. (To me, it made that sleek machine look like it had a beer belly!)
I kept the original extra-long maroon hose but grafted an Electrolux handle onto it. I removed the power nozzle hardware and pigtail connector from the machine-end coupler since I didn't plan to ever use it with a power nozzle.
Finally, I outfitted it with a set of Electrolux aluminum wands and white Electrolux combination attachments.
I was thinking right from the get-go that dark-gray attachments would look better with the maroon color of the machine, so I began looking for them. Plus, I didn't really like the original hose. It was just too long.
I knew that the dark gray combination attachments from the Aerus Lux Platinum would look nice, but the cost for new ones is ridiculously high. So I started going around and asking folks if they had any spares I could get for a bit lower than a new set, and one at a time the attachments came to me at very reasonable prices.
The last thing I found, purely by luck in a bunch of other stuff another vacuum cleaner collector gave me, was a Kirby G4 hose. I've seen two different styles of G4 hoses, one dark-gray with matching dark-gray connectors, and one lighter-gray with dark-gray connectors. I don't know which came first but I had gotten both of them, and the all-dark-gray one matched the other "new Royal" accessories the best. Attaching the machine end of the hose to the coupler was just a piece of cake, and I liked how I was able to eliminate the large and bulky casing for the power nozzle wiring that I thought was just plain ugly.
So here you have it, in all its radiant glory ... the ROYAL-LUX! I changed the name to Royal-Lux rather than my original name Electro-Royal, because Electro-Royal sounds too much like Electro-Hygiene.
"Just Another Day in Sweeper Paradise..."
