yet another Electrolux

[anthony]

Hi guys .i have been after one of these for years and finally i got this one its really dirty but it runs well its a Z64 my granparents bought one of these around 1966 to replace there Z62 that met with an untimely death when my grandad ran over it with the car .It has to be Electrolux at its most basic but the quality is still there its very simple a bag in one end and a motor in the other no filters nothing all plastic tools and wands and a hose that seems thinner than the usual Lux hose it will be getting the usual strip and lube job

 

[anthony]

the flex

really dirty flex can you see the bit thats been cleaned?

 

[anthony]

3

this is whats under the plastic end cap

 

[anthony]

motor out

and fans off pluss lots ov loverly grease forced into the dry bearing

 

[anthony]

other end

the brushes are perfect and there are no sparks when its running so i will leave well alone

 

[anthony]

one of the fans

theres a lot of dirt stuck to the fan blades you can see where i vave scraped it with a screwdriver they will all be cleaned before reassembly

 

[anthony]

the empty shell

ready for a bath

 

[anthony]

the shell after a scrub and a bath

i cannot get these marks off i think they are where the rubber flex has been resting against the shell for a long time .i have tried everything but they wont budge the next pic will be the whole thing back together

 

[dysondestijl]

Lovely

 

[collector2]

Looking good - They were made from 1960 - 1965 I think that the one with the plastic wands and triangular brush was the last version, though I may be mistaken. The one I see more often is with the single aluminium wand and round brush.

 

[collector2]

LOL - I meant two aluminium wands and round dusting brush. Looking right at the machine and still wrote it down wrong
Doug

 

[anthony]

all done

i have never seen one of these in the uk with metal wands or tools just the plastic ones it was Electrolux buget machine as far as i am aware anyway guys its all back together .Has anyone got the user manual would be nice to see it and perhaps download a copy

 

[vintagerepairer]

metal wands

The metal wands were fitted only to the earliest version of the 65 in the UK. The plastic wands are what I have seen, indeed I have never seen one with metal wands and tubes, although I know they were built this way. What interests me most about this cleaner here is the carpet tool. I am not sure if it is the earliest design or one of the latest. The tool I remember most is the design used in Europe and Australia. There is one such example in the video here:

 

[vacbear58]

Lux 64

Nice find Anthony, I wondered who had snapped this one up.

Its funny how, for years and years there was not a 64 to be seen and in the last year or so there have been seven or eight all cropped up in quick succession.

1960 was a very big year for Electrolux as both the 64 and 65 were introduced in the very early part of the year. However the (much more expensive) 65 was more of an evolution of the previous 30/55/62 models the 64 was a completely new design altogether of their budget range.

I believe that it was produced up until 1967 when it was replaced by the similar 77 model which was in a very attractive pale blue/white colour combo. The main difference between the 64 and 77 was the forward leaning handle and the tools which had the first appearance of the long hose handle with no plastic covering and the first appearance of what was later to be the "budget" flip over combo carpet/floor nozzle. The 77 also had the butterfly dusting/upholstery nozzle which was now universal across the range.

A few weeks Markus79 showed us an example of what might have been a crossover model (model 68 from memory) which was like the 64 shown above but with the forward leaning handle - this model was not sold here. It is interesting to compare superficially similar Electrolux models from different European countries to note the detail differences between them.

I this case the 68 had paper bags but (from memory) none of the Lux BOL cleaners up to the model 96 in the UK were supplied with a facility for paper bags nor was there mention of them in the instruction manual.

http://www.vacuumland.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?19907

 

[vacbear58]

Lux 64

Anyhow, as has been noted above in the thread, the model was introduced with metal hose handle and wands, with metal couplings to the otherwise identical carpet and floor nozzles.

I would have said this was the only example of this particular type of carpet nozzle I have seen except that it cropped up a few weeks ago in Tommy Milan's thread about the Lux 53, another model we did not have here.

The tools that Benny mentioned above were only seen here (in green) on the Lux 62 and (in white) in the Trident models derived from the Electrolux 80. It is another example of the differences in territories that this style of nozzle appears to have been the only sort used in Australia - at home I have a picture of them in pink along with a 65 and have seen other models (youtube) from there which have also used these styles of tools.

However the floor nozzle was not the 62 style but harks back to that seen on late production 55 models and I would presume on the 60 (the predecessor BOL Lux model).

http://www.vacuumland.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?20780

 

[vacbear58]

Lux 64

I have no idea when the plastic tools came in although based on the brochure which follows it must be fairly early on as the price is listed at 19 guineas - a look back at Which reports from 1960 & 1963 might give an indication but I THINK the 1960 price was not far off 19 guineas. As a point of comparison the 65 at that time would have been a shade off £30 - that was a big difference in price in those days.

 

[vacbear58]

Lux 64

Note the dusting nozzle has also changed

 

[vacbear58]

Lux 64

I believe it is not mandatory to wear white stillies while using this cleaner

 

[vacbear58]

Lux 64

You would almost think the floor nozzle had a metal coupling in this picture, although the wands are plastic - this may have been the first use of plastic for nozzles and wands in the UK