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LX Ejection Adjustment Tool set
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Post# 20447   9/15/2007 at 12:04 (6,061 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)        

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What are these?

Post# 20449 , Reply# 1   9/15/2007 at 12:10 (6,061 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)        

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Yes indeed! Before Electrolux engineers came up with the exterior adjustment dial this is how one set or re-set the base suction level of the ejector mechanisms for an individual homeowner's requirements.

Post# 20450 , Reply# 2   9/15/2007 at 12:14 (6,061 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)        

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Plate label.

Thought I'd never find a Basement & Attic key. Bonus!


Post# 20451 , Reply# 3   9/15/2007 at 12:16 (6,061 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)        
And now, breathless LX fans...

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the 13 pages of the exciting booklet...

Post# 20452 , Reply# 4   9/15/2007 at 12:19 (6,061 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)        

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inside cover

Post# 20453 , Reply# 5   9/15/2007 at 12:20 (6,061 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)        

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overview 1

Post# 20454 , Reply# 6   9/15/2007 at 12:21 (6,061 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)        

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Overview 2

Post# 20455 , Reply# 7   9/15/2007 at 12:22 (6,061 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)        

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page one

Post# 20456 , Reply# 8   9/15/2007 at 12:23 (6,061 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)        

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Pages two & three

Post# 20457 , Reply# 9   9/15/2007 at 12:24 (6,061 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)        

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Pages four & five

Post# 20459 , Reply# 10   9/15/2007 at 12:26 (6,061 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)        

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Pages six & seven

Post# 20460 , Reply# 11   9/15/2007 at 12:28 (6,061 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)        

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Plates pages eight & nine

Post# 20461 , Reply# 12   9/15/2007 at 12:29 (6,061 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)        

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pages ten & eleven

Post# 20462 , Reply# 13   9/15/2007 at 12:30 (6,061 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)        

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pages twelve & thirteen

Post# 20463 , Reply# 14   9/15/2007 at 12:31 (6,061 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)        

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Pages fourteen & fifteen

Post# 20464 , Reply# 15   9/15/2007 at 12:42 (6,061 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)        

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Pages sixteen & seventeen. The end...or the beginning? Printing date December 1952.

We should all post more of this kind of vacuum exotica; I find it fascinating. Charles, please feel free to add this to your superbly informative site as I haven't got one and it would be nice to have such stuff centrally located.

Dave, all Luxed Out for the time being...

and I'll just mention another hose I'm looking for is a green pigtail power hose for a Canadian Z89 Elux-o-matic...


Post# 20468 , Reply# 16   9/15/2007 at 15:51 (6,060 days old) by charles~richard ()        

What a great find! I have a basement and attic key and the adjustment brochure seen above but I do not have the tool kit. Where on earth did you find THAT?!

I'd love to use your


Post# 20497 , Reply# 17   9/16/2007 at 09:09 (6,060 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)        

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It was stuffed inside the bag compartment of a cosmeticly trashed, dented, gouged & rusted LX I picked up for spare parts because it had a lovely shiny untrashed but sprung & separated cord winder hanging off the back and also the original (?) matching extension cord from before it had the cordwinder added (?). Since I have one colored logo LX without a cordwinder...well and who doesn't like spare parts?

As tho the vacuum had been dropped on its end, the cordwinder mount was dished into the 'softer' reel backside, making the thumbscrew impossible to turn, while the faceplate was in like new unblemished condition. Took the whole thing apart down to the rivits and bumped out the back housing and straightened the mounting plate with hammer forms I contrived from blocks of maple. It takes a lot of force to bend that stamped steel mounting bracket, hence I assume it was dropped from some height, but clever leverage application does the job.

Snapped in half bakelite electric contact moldings repair strongly with a good grade of 'crazy glue' adhesives, btw. Done with care you can't see the split.
Dave


Post# 20513 , Reply# 18   9/16/2007 at 21:34 (6,059 days old) by charles~richard ()        

Well, that is just TOO COOL.

Whenever I find old (pre-dial) LXs, the first thing I do is look inside the cord compartment to see if there's an ejection key in there. That's where Electrolux recommended people store them.

I have actually found several of them.

Still waiting to see my bigger fantasy fulfilled of purchasing an old XXX, LX, E or AE from a thrift shop, getting it home, removing the filter pad in the rear and finding the jewels and cash that someone hid in there.

Think about it ... wouldn't that be a great place to hide booty?! For that matter, any tank or canister with a cloth bag -- stuff could be put down inside the canister, the cloth bag inserted in front of it, and who on earth would ever think of looking there?!

I'll let you know when I find something back there --- besides dead coachroaches and cooties, that is... I =do= always check. Do all of yall?!

Now ensues the sound of stampeding feet as collectors run - do not walk - to their machines to look for hidden treasure, hahahaha!





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