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Post# 11569   3/28/2007 at 21:16 (6,209 days old) by vacjwt ()        

only 27 bucks with shipping

Post# 11570 , Reply# 1   3/28/2007 at 21:18 (6,209 days old) by vacjwt ()        
love it

yes love it

Post# 11571 , Reply# 2   3/28/2007 at 21:20 (6,209 days old) by vacjwt ()        
not bad

not bad at all

Post# 11573 , Reply# 3   3/28/2007 at 22:07 (6,209 days old) by crevicetool (GA )        
Good for you...

You'll have a lot of fun with that machine. I've got two, One being rebuilt, and one unfortunatly having to supply parts for the other, but it was in really bad shape and I found it in the trash quite a few years ago. When you take yours apart (if you do) release that bag spring before you do anything else!!! That sucker can do some finger damage if you are not careful...The LX is my favorite Lux. Rick

Post# 11575 , Reply# 4   3/28/2007 at 22:17 (6,209 days old) by constellation86 (Roy, UT)        

Neat LX. You will have bags flying across the room before you know it! I'll bet that it will cost more than that just to ship. I got my model S and F on Ebay and both of the sellers lost money with the shipping. It would have been cheaper for them to give them to charity! Oh well the post office made lots of money!
Nicholas


Post# 11577 , Reply# 5   3/28/2007 at 22:45 (6,209 days old) by vacjwt ()        

shipping was $10 and the vacuum was $17

Post# 11578 , Reply# 6   3/28/2007 at 22:57 (6,209 days old) by charles~richard ()        
Very nice --

that's the early version of the LX with the lovely red and yellow logo in the side rails. Later they got cheaper and just had a single piece of embossed aluminum. Your LX will clean up very nicely!! Did you get any attachments for it?

Does it have the bag ejector control dial? If so, it was retrofitted later. The early LX did not have that yet. Check out what I wrote about this at the link below -- then check inside your cord compartment to see if an "Attic and Basement Key" is still tucked in there! I've actually found a couple of LXs with them in there. But finding them is rare, and it's also hard to find them without the retrofitted ejector control.

I found an early LX that has the earliest version of the ejector. Rather than the 7-position ribbed plastic knob that they all had from the LX through the G, it has a metal knob inset into a metal flange! And it only has four positions. I'll snap a photo of it and add it here, to see if anyone else has seen one like this. This is the only one I have ever seen.

The LX is truly a wonderful machine -- beautiful, built like a tank, quiet (especially if it still has the rear filter), and there were so many interesting variations of it!



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Post# 11579 , Reply# 7   3/28/2007 at 23:02 (6,209 days old) by charles~richard ()        
OH

In reading through my own LX page, I realized I made a couple of boo-boos above. Write it off to brain damage! First, you can see a photo of the metal ejector control on the referenced site. It's on a machine labeled as LXI which, as I found out later, it actually is not. It has all the "retrofitting" of the LXI -- the swing-open cord winder, the rear wheels with axle, and the front swivel caster. BUT it has the ornate side panels which clearly makes it an earlier machine, AND it has the early type of ejector control.

Other boo-boos, I said the plastic knob had 7 settings when there were 6, and that the metal knob had four when there are also 6.



Post# 11581 , Reply# 8   3/28/2007 at 23:10 (6,209 days old) by vacjwt ()        
it did have hose but no tools

thay said the hose looked mint thay where goning to throw it out I said I whold take it

Post# 11582 , Reply# 9   3/28/2007 at 23:11 (6,209 days old) by vacjwt ()        
by the way the late version

is very ugly to me

Post# 11589 , Reply# 10   3/29/2007 at 01:49 (6,209 days old) by charles~richard ()        
I agree the LXI

is not as lovely as the early one but since it's such a scarce model, it does have a great deal of appeal to me. I'll never forget the first time I found one - in a thrift shop. When I first spotted it, I thought someone had grafted the rear-end of a Model E onto it until I looked closer and realized it was too integrated a style and design for that. It finally occurred to me that this was a version of the LX that I had never seen before. I began researching it and found out that, indeed, it was such a special version that it was accorded its own model designation!



Post# 11676 , Reply# 11   3/30/2007 at 22:28 (6,207 days old) by vacjwt ()        
I GOT IT

AND CHARLES THARE WAS A KEY IN IT BY THE WAY I DONT THINK I WAS RETROFITED

Post# 11677 , Reply# 12   3/30/2007 at 23:08 (6,207 days old) by charles~richard ()        
THE KEY

Oh how exciting!! Those are quite hard to find ---- HANG ON to it and don't lose it!!! Probably the safest place to keep it will be in the cord compartment where you found it. I'd love it if you would post some photos of it.

No, if the machine has the key it would not have the ejection control knob. But it's easy enough to find out -- look at the undeside of the machine toward the front, just where the cover is attached. If there is a knob, that's where it will be.



Post# 11678 , Reply# 13   3/30/2007 at 23:09 (6,207 days old) by charles~richard ()        
P.S.

I just looked at your photos again, and saw that you do have a photo of the bottom. No, it does not have the ejector control, so you really do have one of the earliest of the earliest LXs there, and in unaltered condition! Quite a find!!



Post# 11679 , Reply# 14   3/30/2007 at 23:23 (6,207 days old) by vacjwt ()        

THE BAG EJECTOR WAS NOT WORKING WHEN I GOT IT THE ROD WAS BENT SO IT WAS JAMED I TOOK IT APART AND BENT IT BACK IN TO SHAPE AND NOW IT WORKS THE ONE THING IS WHEN I VACUUM THE WOOD FLOORS IN MY HOUSE THE BAG LIKES TO EJECT ALOT BUT THATS ALL PART OF THE FUN LOL

Post# 11680 , Reply# 15   3/31/2007 at 00:20 (6,207 days old) by charles~richard ()        
You should also

lightly lubricate the ejector rod with light-weight machine grease -- just a very light coating to 'slicken' the rod so when the ejector arm travels down it, it'll have a smooth -- and FAST -- journey!!



Post# 11683 , Reply# 16   3/31/2007 at 01:50 (6,207 days old) by vacjwt ()        
I DID

BUT FOR STUFF LIKE THAT I DON'T WANT THE GREASE ITS GOOD FOR OTHER STUFF BUT NOT FOR SOMTHING THAT IS RITE ON THE BAG FOR STUFF LIKE THAT I USE POTROLUM JELLY

Post# 11751 , Reply# 17   4/1/2007 at 17:19 (6,205 days old) by crevicetool (GA )        
And when its all done...

It will look like this...Just finished 3-30-07. I got it on Ebay in January.

Post# 11765 , Reply# 18   4/1/2007 at 21:38 (6,205 days old) by vacjwt ()        
hose hose ware could thare be a hose

now I must find the right hose for this the one it came with is a bojack and I know this is a bad thing to ask but do any of you have a hose you will sell me It dose not have to be mint

Post# 11774 , Reply# 19   4/2/2007 at 07:21 (6,205 days old) by crevicetool (GA )        
Me too!

I don't have a hose for mine either. Got everythinng else though....A hose just might be something I'll never get my hands on...

Post# 11783 , Reply# 20   4/2/2007 at 15:04 (6,205 days old) by charles~richard ()        
Lux hoses

are on eBay all the time. No, not original LX hoses -- good luck ever finding one of those worth using -- but you can find genuine Electrolux replacement hoses.

The 1205 / turquoise L hose looks really nice with the LX, especially if you can find the version with the all-metal handle end.



Post# 11820 , Reply# 21   4/2/2007 at 21:13 (6,204 days old) by rocketwarrior ()        
LX Hose

Can anyone point to a LX house picture so I can check against an orphan I have hanging around?

Post# 11822 , Reply# 22   4/2/2007 at 21:19 (6,204 days old) by rocketwarrior ()        
LX a keeper?

After reviewing the foregoing comments, should I be offering up my LX instead of cannibilize it? The design does not "speak to me" as far as "assemblage sculpture" ideas like some other vacs - maybe an open wheel racer - so it has been sitting on the shelf. Thoughts?

Post# 11826 , Reply# 23   4/2/2007 at 21:33 (6,204 days old) by vacjwt ()        
it is a grate vacuum

and it is hard to find in good shape go for the model g e and xxx thare a dime a dosen

Post# 11857 , Reply# 24   4/3/2007 at 01:25 (6,204 days old) by charles~richard ()        
Dear Dr. Rocketwarrior:

You can see pix of the LX in its original splendor at my web site. See link below, and this one:

www.137.com/lx...


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Post# 11875 , Reply# 25   4/3/2007 at 07:26 (6,204 days old) by crevicetool (GA )        
Mr. Rocketwarrior

I was trying to come up with a suggestion as to what you could do with your LX... The unit as a whole is a good looking machine. But stripped of it's trim pieces, the superstructure only represents stationary. The body looks to me like the boiler and firebox of a steam engine. But not in the locomotive idea, as in your model E train. More like a power plant engine. Inverted, maybe a building, here again stationary... Perhaps it could only be a part of something much larger. It just does not suggest movement to me...Sorry, I guess I was no help!

Post# 11883 , Reply# 26   4/3/2007 at 08:51 (6,204 days old) by rocketwarrior ()        
Hoses

Here are a couple of orhpan hoses - does either one belong to the LX?

Post# 11886 , Reply# 27   4/3/2007 at 11:06 (6,204 days old) by buffalo-joe ()        
The Box.............

It would have come in a box like this. That's the original hose too. The tools are in the box for this picture.

This was my Grandma's vacuum bought new in the early 50's.

Joe


Post# 11889 , Reply# 28   4/3/2007 at 13:44 (6,204 days old) by charles~richard ()        
Rocketwarrior and Joe:

RW,

The hose in the top of your pic is from a turquoise Model G, and the one in the bottom is from the dark turquoise Model L. (The same color and pattern of hose was used with the 1205, but it did not have this type of curved metal handle.)

Attached is a close-up of a swatch of fabric from a Model LX hose. This is as close to the original color, hue and intensity as you will find: This sample came from inside the machine-end coupler where it had been protected from light throughout the years. It was a hose that was crummy, old and faded. I wanted to save the ends from it.

When I pulled the machine-end coupler off and saw the color of the hose that had been inside it, it really amazed me! It was the first time since I was a kid that I had seen a cloth LX/E hose with such intensity in its colors. Because the material was cloth, it fades over the years. Most of the ones you find nowadays are faded to a bland beige sort of color, with the color of the background and the color of the decorative pattern barely indistinguishable from one another.

When the LX/E hoses were new, they created an odd optical illusion: The background color was dark, almost a charcoal gray, and the chevron-shaped pattern was a bright, intense blue. So, when you would stare at the hose for a while without blinking, the blue pattern would begin to appear to be floating above the gray background!

I doubt the same effect will obtain with this photo, but try it and see!

---

Joe,

That's a BEAUTIFUL box from the LX! I have one that's not in quite as nice condition but it is all intact.

I have to say, Electrolux really went all out when this new Model LX was introduced in 1952. Every thing about it was deluxe -- the styling, the many attachments available, even the packaging and of course the fabulous instruction booklet!

I don't know of any other manufacturer who ever put out a 40-page full-color instruction manual! And even more unbelievably, the LX manual hasn't just got color photos, but color watercolor paintings that an artist had to very laboriously create! (No scanners or Photoshop back in those days!)

To those with backgrounds in printing and graphic art, it boggles the mind to consider the cost and technical difficulties involved in producing such a manual in the early 1950s! Truly amazing!!




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