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Bakelite ad featuring Electrolux Model LX
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Post# 260189   12/19/2013 at 18:19 (3,752 days old) by Electrolux137 (Los Angeles)        

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Post# 260199 , Reply# 1   12/19/2013 at 20:06 (3,752 days old) by dysonman1 (the county)        

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Great Ad. Only the model LXI (61) had the plastic knob. However, the internal parts were always made of bakelite.

Post# 260201 , Reply# 2   12/19/2013 at 20:15 (3,752 days old) by caligula (Wallingford, Connecticut)        
Hi Charles Richard.

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What a great ad, thanks for sharing. Hi Tom, hope  you are doing okay. Hang in there, and I'm here if you need me. With love to both of you guys.

 

Bob Alex.

 


Post# 260203 , Reply# 3   12/19/2013 at 20:30 (3,752 days old) by danemodsandy ()        
Um....

This is most definitely a Bakelite ad, in that the Bakelite Company created it.

However, if you'll read the copy, you'll see that the plastic being touted is not Bakelite itself, which was and is a composite of phenolic resin and wood flour.

The plastic being advertised here is Bakelite C-11 Plastic, "an acrylonitrile-styrene copolymer." That would make it at a forerunner of today's ABS plastic, a terpolymer consisting of acrylonitrile, butadiene and styrene.

So, the LX was, in a way, a predictor of today's ABS-bodied vacuums; ABS is what makes it possible to mold intricate vacuum bodies that hold up under use. ABS is very nearly as tough as Lexan, but costs much less.



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