What is your favorite older Electrolux

[luxg]

Dave, that was very interesting. Thanks so much for taking the time to post it all for us.

 

[caligula]

Electrolux polishing attachment

Thanks again Dave, that was exactly what I wanted to see!

 

[caligula]

Last post.

I just checked and my last post was #60, this makes 61. How interesting as I love Electrolux LX and LXI (60 & 61)!

 

[crevicetool]

Oh, no. It ain't over - til it's over!!!!

Clever postings of images of disassembled LX's, scanned images of polisher/scrubber booklets - not to mention the directions on adjusting the LX wrapper-heaving mechanism - will deter me from protecting the great model G from earlier slander! The following pictures will demonstrate the hazards of attempting to carry the model 89.

 

[crevicetool]

Notice that the angle at which the heavy beast is forced to follow (due to an ill-placed handle) places the machine right at all moving parts of one's legs. Double ouch!!! Sorry about the calves...I see that some squats and donkey calf raises are in order.

 

[crevicetool]

Ahhhhhh......

 

[crevicetool]

Over-lapage of appendage digits may cause blood circulation problems, interfering with the ever useful wrist action.

 

[crevicetool]

Ahhhh, (again).

 

[crevicetool]

I can only say thank goodness the cord winds from the wrong side on the 89. Think of what damage that could cause!

 

[aeoliandave]

Bouncing bananas indeed!, Mr Crevipoo.

Butt do not think that your feeble, yet compelling, attempt to divert our rapt attention from serious design flaws by provocatively posing in crevice clinging, banana enhancing designer label EORGIA fleece shorts can mask the primary shortcoming of the G <br
Aww, you big brutes bruise so easily; must be the poor circulation from being so tall. And that Georgia heat is befudding your common sense.. <br
Can your G do this? That's 81" of raw suction straightening out curly 2-legged pocketbear chest carpeting. Even if you could on that massive sun bronzed muscular frame that puny, top heavy, so-tip-prone-it-needs-a pair-of training-wheels-up-front G would be hard pressed to summon up much more than 60-70" draw. The bowlingball lifting 89 has a wind cheating profile as well as a pair of waterwing hydrofoil/snow ski skids to cleave its way through any dense uneven debris field ya wanna plow through on an inherently stable 3 wheel arrangement.. <br
And what's with carrying the vacuum around anyway? Is the G so delicate it can't stand & roll on its own 5 feet? No vacuum on the second floor or basement? A sorry substitute for proper weights to keep those massive limbs inflated I suppose. Now, I grant that ya got yerself a pair of purty legs, sorry calves and silly girlyman socks notwithstanding, but those gym sessions ain't workin' out so well if the 89 is so heavy it causes you to topple over banging it into your ankles. Surely those wide shoulders and biceps so bulge-y ya can't get your arm all the way down must hold the vacuum well away from vertical plane sway contact with lower limbs <br
But wait! Those artfully placed, transparently obvious sympathy-begging medico patches are not even in line with indicated 'documented' mid femur/tibia 'injuries' and cannot fool our august assembly of constant thread readers. <br
Just wait til that G hits the door frame or banister on the way up to your shamefully vacuum-less 2nd storey or down to the basement, swings around and fractures a kneecap...or crushes a bannana <br
What's that I hear? Is that the sound of Big Man Sobbing <br
Wee Davy was small but oh my! He struck that Goliath down...

 

[crevicetool]

And don't think those band-aids didn't hurt yanking them off either!! <br
OK, OK......I give up! I just set fire to the G. <br
Now those Z67's, Don't get me started! What the He.. <br
Oh skip it <br <br
FOTFLMAO <br
Rick

 

[sireluxomatic]

*Gulp*

I've stirred up a hornets' nest...or enough dust bunnies to block the bags of the aforementioned machines. May I offer a metaphorical bandage to all parties and their affected limbs/digits/bodily hair concerned <br
Your most humble and faithful servant <br
Robert J. (who used both vacuums today without noticeable bodily harm, although he didn't carry them <br
*insert dancing banana here*

 

[arh1953]

These pictures are making

This happen again! See what happens with a group of unsupervised adult males?

 

[aeoliandave]

After waiting through what seems like weeks of rain on days off, Tuesday is going to be sunny clear and warmish at 72 F. In anticipation I took the new 89 over to clean up the boat carpet and crevices. Because The G Just Ain't Powerful Enough For Such A Big Job. LO
Powernozzle IVed every surface and filled the gas tanks and took the Subaru through the car wash and then used the 89 to vacuum the car out stem to stern. Filled darn near half a new bag with fine road dust and pine needles (don't ask)
Hey Rick, try dead-lifting 25 litres of gasoline straight up 4 feet from the ground leaning over a gunnell...twice - that'll build up that weak right arm of yours.

 

[aeoliandave]

On the way back from the grocery store for boat snacks I found this pair of 59 cent cobalt blue anodized Ray-O-Vac electric candlelights at Sally Ann's. I think I can safely date them to the 1960s because of the white glass flames, internal electrics and insulation cardboard and Mica. I even loaded them with Ray-O-Vac C cells <br
Should look very nice framing the Altar of Fallen Winkler-snappers...naw, I'll put them with the other flashlights <br
Davy

 

[luxg]

You had better not had!!!

Set fire to that beautiful Electrolux G!!!!

 

[countryguy]

LOL @ Dave.....your antecdotes are just too funny <br
Gary

 

[z30soulbrother]

favourite luxes

mine are the whole "loaf" series

 

[z30soulbrother]

trident

i cannot for the life of me find any info on the trident vacuum in yellow! there were 3 in our street at the turn of the decade (1960s/70s) nobody seems to be familiar with these machines i havent seen 1 for about 35 years! i asked 1 ex-owner and they couldnt remember where it came from! As far as i can remember it was in the "body" of a lux z80 (blue and white) it had a detachable cord like the rest of the loaf series going from z30 that connected under the exhaust. It had white end caps and a yellow case and TRIDENT logos on the sides.It had a bayonet hose lux single wand white lux crevice and two way upholstry/dusting brush. I would love to see a pic of 1 as its 1 of my ELECTROLUX FAVOURITES but nobody seems to know anything about this model. Ive seen trident models illustrated in the lux listings posted here but not this yellow one! someone please! somebody must know something there were 3 in our street! it must have been a popular vac at the time! look forward to your imput.

 

[z30soulbrother]

challenge

challenge by electrolux c1965