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A Clever Electrolux G User |
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Post# 81238 , Reply# 1   9/21/2009 at 12:51 (5,302 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)   |   | |
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Necessity is the Mother of Intervention. Well done without horribly butchering anything - I'd have done the same in the day. Makes a once piece long cord all the rarer - lovely for authentic display, a pain in the butt in use. Not in this case, but I've often mused why the Electrolux extension power cords are so much longer than the hose; I figured so the cord could be spiraled evenly around the hose, which I do. No doubt the taping was done because those rubber cord clips tend to slide & rotate and cause 'floppy flacid cord syndrome'. Quite annoying getting tangled in the loopy cord or irritating the back of your hand when trying to vacuum comfortably and efficiently with a solid grip on the handle. I keep a wide rubber band on power nozzles so configured for exactly that reason - to keep the cord snugged up to the hose handle so my fingers wrap around the cord. I wonder how many Sweeper Shops performed this PN cord surgery for customers before Electrolux made it factory standard? Dave |
Post# 81240 , Reply# 3   9/21/2009 at 13:55 (5,302 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)   |   | |
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Electrolux did abandon the one piece plastic PN wand introduced in 1959, flirted briefly with a telescopic wand (I'm told) but quickly settled on the non-telescopic two-section wand with a half length plastic sheath encapsulating the PN extension cord and socket. I always felt that was an awfully thick & ugly plastic sheath just to carry an embedded PN cord and they are a bastard to get apart with that overly engineered hidden latch arrangement - they were not meant for the housewife to take apart once assembled but they expected wifey or hubbypoo to assemble the damn thing...I have the manual that instructs how to assemble. Up here in Canada Electrolux soldiered on with the marvelous telescopic electric wand in green right through 1973, then switched to the American-style sheathed version for the 1974 model AP-100. The first Canadian telescopic wand from 1958 is a non-electric slim all aluminum construction for the early red 80 series. The USA never got this wand, I think. |
Post# 81241 , Reply# 4   9/21/2009 at 14:01 (5,302 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)   |   | |
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The very first Canadian PN in cream and red to match the 86 & 88 was borrowed from the USA and has the one piece plastic wand, as shown in this ad courtesy of compactelectra aka Fred Nelson. I think Doug Smith has said that the Canadian electric telescopic was also made in red to match late 88s and these are extremely scarce. |
Post# 81373 , Reply# 9   9/23/2009 at 14:32 (5,300 days old) by sireluxomatic ()   |   | |
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Here's a machine end view of the hose cord. Without that locking collar, the hose swivels, but the downside of this is that the cord wraps too tightly around the hose. |
Post# 81374 , Reply# 10   9/23/2009 at 14:33 (5,300 days old) by sireluxomatic ()   |   | |
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A view of the handle end, with the "loop" hanging down. |
Post# 81375 , Reply# 11   9/23/2009 at 14:37 (5,300 days old) by sireluxomatic ()   |   | |
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The details of this wand exactly match the green one, save the lack of an electrical connection. |
Post# 81376 , Reply# 12   9/23/2009 at 14:38 (5,300 days old) by sireluxomatic ()   |   | |
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Pic #2 |