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Rare Electrolux Hose? |
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Post# 139188   6/9/2011 at 20:14 (4,934 days old) by Electrolux-Dude (Canyon, TX)   |   | |
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Here's an interesting Electrolux Hose I got today, the handle end looks really different, Is it rare? |
Post# 139205 , Reply# 1   6/9/2011 at 21:09 (4,934 days old) by suckolux (Yuba City, CA)   |   | |
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Post# 139220 , Reply# 3   6/9/2011 at 21:45 (4,934 days old) by Electrolux-Dude (Canyon, TX)   |   | |
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Yes there are red tracings in the hose. That's what I'm thinking--Perhaps for a Lux G. |
Post# 139225 , Reply# 5   6/9/2011 at 21:54 (4,934 days old) by pnluxconvlvr (Georgia)   |   | |
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Post# 139276 , Reply# 8   6/10/2011 at 07:30 (4,933 days old) by countryguy (Astorville, ON, Canada)   |   | |
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Post# 139297 , Reply# 9   6/10/2011 at 12:42 (4,933 days old) by kenkart ()   |   | |
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That is RARE! indeed! I have heard that they were prone to fail early,but they probably were no worse than the braided hoses from the Golden J thru the last metal body machines, those hoses are terrible. |
Post# 139300 , Reply# 10   6/10/2011 at 14:04 (4,933 days old) by vinvac (Dubuque IA)   |   | |
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Not to change the subject here, but was Electrolux the only company that made an anti-clog hose. Machine end of the hose bigger than tool end? The picture that Nathan posted shows that so clearly.
Great find Nathan....I am sure that Crevicetool will do a wonderful job of keeping an eye on it for you..................................................................................................................................................................................... Oh what that man won't try.....LOL Morgan |
Post# 139348 , Reply# 12   6/10/2011 at 21:18 (4,933 days old) by collector2 (Moose Jaw, Sk)   |   | |
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Re reply #6 -OK, stupid question time here. I know some early power nozzles had problems -specifically the hoses shocked the ever-living shit out of people. Is this one of those hoses? What was the problem with it, and what was the problem with the early Lewyt PNs that supposedly electrocuted people? Was it manufacturing defects? Lousy design? Wear?
It was the Lewyt machines that had that problem. What happened was they created an isolated 24 V circuit for the powerhead using a secondary winding on the motor as a transformer. Unfortunately they used the body of the machine and the wands/handgrip themselves as one pole of the circuit. When the motor got overheated the vanish insulating the wires melted off and the primary and secondary windings shorted together, sending 120 volts to the powerhead and charging the body wands and handgrip. Anyone touching these parts and beign grounded got a shock. Electrolux always used a 120 Volt powerhead and, consequently, the power hoses were insulated so as not to allow them to become charged. I can see no reason that you should worry about a hose like this unless it was in very poor shape with exposed wires. |
Post# 240145 , Reply# 15   7/15/2013 at 16:09 (4,167 days old) by floor-a-matic (somewhere)   |   | |
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How rare are these two Electrolux hoses? Both are leaky, but cosmetically good shape. I guess those came from the 1205-era? This post was last edited 07/15/2013 at 19:10 |
Post# 240183 , Reply# 17   7/15/2013 at 22:18 (4,167 days old) by dysonman1 (the county)   |   | |
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The Model G Electric Hose was imported from Canada. It wasn't a 'failure' in the marketplace, it simply wasn't UL approved. There were only two shipments, both were sent to the US AFTER the 1205 was launched. There were NOT available during the run of the models G (both Turquoise and Bronze). In 1968, after the model 1205 was about six months into its run (with a non-electric hose packed standard and NO electric hose available for it), the first 1205 Electric hoses that WERE UL approved, were shipped from Canada along with the telescopic wand. The severe use that maids put on the Lux machines, forced the change to the more durable but less convenient "pigtail" wand cord hook up to the hose.
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Post# 240187 , Reply# 18   7/15/2013 at 23:15 (4,167 days old) by kenkart ()   |   | |
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But I sure would love to find one! |
Post# 240191 , Reply# 19   7/16/2013 at 02:14 (4,167 days old) by BrianKirbyClass (Eudora Kansas)   |   | |
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An Aunt of mine bought a new 1205 in around 1971, 72. It came with the direct connect machine end PN hose, and the dual plug metal hose end. It also came with a blue PN1, but not the telescoping wand, it was the standard blue sheath.
Anyway, after about 4-5 yrs of heavy use, ( she had that THICK, HEAVY, LONG shag carpet that had to be raked) the hose started smelling hot one day, like that hot burning electrical smell. Then, all of a sudden, sparks started to fly out of a little hole in the hose, about 2-3 inches down from the PN plug on the handle. The PN never lost power, and the hose nor handle never caused a shock, but the sparks flew out of the little hole in the hose like crazy. This would have been about the time of the Super J, as she called the Electolux man right away, and he sold her a new pistol grip yellow Super J hose. That 1205 did last a VERY long time.Was in the late 1980s when The hose finally got too leaky, and the PN got tired. There were hardly any bristles left on the little PN 1 brush roll. She bought a new Kenmore Powermate after that. The 1205 motor was still going when she finally thru it away. |