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Electrolux Telescopic Wand |
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Post# 94713 3/27/2010 at 19:28 (5,141 days old) by countryguy  (Astorville, ON, Canada) |
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| Post# 94756 , Reply# 3 3/28/2010 at 07:00 (5,141 days old) by kenkart () | ||
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I have a 1205 telescopic wand I will hunt it out and post a picture of it. | ||
| Post# 94768 , Reply# 5 3/28/2010 at 10:35 (5,140 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
Speaking of those little details, Canadian 80 series used a positive latching clip to lock hoses, wands, tools and PNs together while American Lux went with that pesky sprung friction ring hoop that I find loosens or breaks with use, mars the wands and rotates when you least want it to. never mind how in-elegant the protruding tab looks beside the 80 button... Naturally any arrangement for clippage can take only so much abuse and I put the broken ones under the Shoddy OwnerOperator Error Abuse Category. For example, Charmaine playing Whack-a-mole with imaginary creatures about the house, in a Glamorene-induced frenzy... Dave 
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| Post# 94893 , Reply# 6 3/30/2010 at 09:28 (5,138 days old) by collector2 (Moose Jaw, Sk) | ||
Actually it wasnt that the US Electrolux was ahead of the Canadian one. Their research departments worked on different aspects of the machines and the results, at least to some extent, were shared. At the same time though, they also found some ideas were better accepted by the US consumer while others went over better in Canada (They also proved that there is a marked difference between the way a US and Canadian housewife tackle vaccuming). A fact that the present company has chosen to totally ignore.
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Post# 94895 , Reply# 7 3/30/2010 at 10:58 (5,138 days old) by countryguy (Astorville, ON, Canada) |
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| Post# 94898 , Reply# 8 3/30/2010 at 12:34 (5,138 days old) by sireluxomatic () | ||
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Here's an archived thread with a picture of the turquoise telescopic wand: CLICK HERE TO GO TO sireluxomatic's LINK | ||
| Post# 94909 , Reply# 9 3/30/2010 at 18:19 (5,138 days old) by collector2 (Moose Jaw, Sk) | ||
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Hey Gary; For the most part an American housewife tends to hold the handgrip of the hose in one hand and let the nozzle do the work. A Canadian houswife tends to vacuum with one hand on the hangrip and one on the wand - basically like she was scrubbing the carpet with it. When I was told that I just kind of shook my head but in the years since I have noticed that it holds true to a large extent. LOL - this was the premice behind not having plastic wands on most of the Canadian machines. They broke too easy when you were applying force directly to them. | ||
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Post# 94952 , Reply# 10 3/31/2010 at 06:48 (5,138 days old) by countryguy (Astorville, ON, Canada) |
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Doug, Thanks for that info. It is funny because in most movies and on TV when you see a housewife using the vacuum she is usually scrubbing the carpet as you described. I guess that makes people think they are working harder. I remember the episode of Everybody Loves Raymond where Debra is using the 'Humvac' ie. Rainbow, and pushing the power nozzle back and forth like she is scrubbing the carpet but the power nozzle wasn't even turned on LOL Gary | ||
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