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Thread Number: 34011
/ Tag: 50s/60s/70s Vacuum Cleaners
Speaking of the Hospital G... |
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| Post# 368720 , Reply# 1 3/19/2017 at 18:18 (2,588 days old) by FantomFan (Rochester, New York) | ||
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Post# 368723 , Reply# 3 3/19/2017 at 19:27 (2,588 days old) by electrolux137  (Los Angeles) |
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 ~ GREAT find!!! Can't wait to see photos of it after you restore it!!
Dark turquoise wheels and switch. The white one are replacements.
Here's a factory advertising sheet for the white/turquoise G. Note that it has a white hose with THREE rows of turquoise tracers, the only model to have this special hose. Now who wouldn't give their left eyeball for one of those hoses!!
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Post# 369093 , Reply# 4 3/24/2017 at 15:05 (2,583 days old) by electrolux137 (Los Angeles) |
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Post# 369105 , Reply# 6 3/24/2017 at 18:56 (2,583 days old) by electrolux137 (Los Angeles) |
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Post# 369109 , Reply# 7 3/24/2017 at 19:56 (2,583 days old) by vacuumlad1650 (Wauponsee, IL) |
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Post# 369121 , Reply# 9 3/25/2017 at 00:30 (2,583 days old) by electrolux137 (Los Angeles) |
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~ Andy, I have to respectfully disagree. The four wheels on the Model G are all identical. And they are the same exact wheels used on other models as I pointed out (E-A, F, G) with the exception of the decorative aluminum "hub caps." If you remove those caps you will see that.
Are you sure you have four model-G-specific, genuine Electrolux wheels?
(Note: I'm not talking about the small black swiveling caster or the smaller front wheels on the S, R & L.) | ||
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Post# 369129 , Reply# 10 3/25/2017 at 08:45 (2,582 days old) by Jayelux (Dallas, TX) |
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G Wheels Rear wheels on all my G's are larger because of a rubber coating on them, protecting the hard floors from the hard plastic. Front wheels which only touch carpet are not covered. So, technically you both are right. Same wheels, but rear wheels are covered making them larger. | ||
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Post# 369136 , Reply# 12 3/25/2017 at 09:52 (2,582 days old) by vacuumlad1650 (Wauponsee, IL) |
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And JayELux hits the nail on the head!
If you notice, the front wheels are mounted just as high off the floor on the canister, but they are smaller so they do not drag on the carpet. They are the same as the rear E-A and F wheels, and they act like the "Feet" on the model E and F. The rear wheels on a G are larger and rubber coated. If you put a replacement wheel on the rear, it sits uneven. Put that same replacement on an EA or F and it sits perfectly straight. Just my 2-cents. Not trying to start a Vac War. Andy | ||
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Post# 369140 , Reply# 13 3/25/2017 at 11:57 (2,582 days old) by electrolux137 (Los Angeles) |
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I concede to the eagle-eyed members here. I've seen many, many, many Model Gs over the years and never noticed that the rear wheels have a rubber covering on them, making them ever-so-slightly larger.
I just checked one of mine and, sure enough, there is a thin layer of rubber on the rear wheels. I never noticed that because the covering is very thin, maybe 1/16" thick - if that much - and barely observable.
Actually, the only real difference is that you can see a seam in the center of the rim of the front wheels whereas that seam is covered in the rear wheels by the thin rubber layer.
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| Post# 369177 , Reply# 15 3/25/2017 at 15:30 (2,582 days old) by Paul (USA) | ||
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If no collectors/enthusiasts have seen the hose in person it was likely a prototype that was never mass-produced. It closely resembles the 50th Jubilee and early Super J hose's color scheme, except for the gold middle tracer it had and the pistol grip end introduced in late 1974. | ||
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Post# 369178 , Reply# 16 3/25/2017 at 15:36 (2,582 days old) by electrolux137 (Los Angeles) |
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~ Well, okay, if the rear wheels are five thirty-seconds of an inch larger than the front wheels, then, yes, they are indeed larger -- keeping in mind that that's five thirty-seconds of an inch -- just a hair more than one-eighth of an inch.
As the machines are used over the years, surely the rubber wears down. The rubber layer on the wheels of the machine I have at hand is paper-thin. I'd love sometime to see a brand-new set of wheels to see how thick the rubber on them is. | ||
| Post# 369179 , Reply# 17 3/25/2017 at 15:37 (2,582 days old) by Real1shep (Walla Walla, WA) | ||
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A member here did a detailed Elux chart on the color hoses for what yrs....that might illustrate if the hose ever made production.
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Post# 369193 , Reply# 20 3/25/2017 at 16:53 (2,582 days old) by electrolux137 (Los Angeles) |
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