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Thread Number: 31636
/ Tag: 80s/90s Vacuum Cleaners
What is your FAVORITE Custom built Canister arrangement? |
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| Post# 349548 4/5/2016 at 04:32 (2,941 days old) by delaneymeegan (Mary Richards lived here) | ||
My collection consists of mainly 4 different brands. Hoover, Electrolux, Eureka, and Kenmore, with a few Dirt Devils thrown in as appetizers.
My thing is, I like to chose the best parts of each manufacturer, and make a custom cleaner. Do you do similar, or do you see it as vacuum cleaner abuse to use, for example, an Eureka attachment with a Bissell?
If you do customize, What's your ideal?
My ideal: An Ultralux metal canister, with a new flexible hose (hated those nasty, heavy, woven hoses) Power Nozzle: Hoover Quadraflex power nozzle OR a Hoover Wide path OR a Eureka 70s to 90s power nozzle OR certain Kenmore pns. Hard floor attachment: Electrolux brush only OR Kenmore wide brush OR Eureka with plastic elbow attached OR generic WIDE floor brush OR a white bristle brush for doing walls. Small tools: Electrolux traditional dusting brush/furniture tool OR Kenmore large dusting brush. Eureka crevice tool OR Electrolux stubby. 70s/80 Kenmore Custom Furniture tool. Electrolux Sidekick electric furniture brush.
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| Post# 349550 , Reply# 1 4/5/2016 at 06:19 (2,941 days old) by Eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
I find that a lot of the newer vacs come with dusting brushes that are not soft enough for delicate surfaces - I'm a bit of a "scratchophobe"!
The softest dusting brush I have ever owned is the Kenmore horsehair brush that came with our Progressive canister. So I have over the years bought these dusting brushes from Sears on their own to use with European canisters. It fits nicely on the universal hose end and wand of my mom's Electrolux UltraSilencer Green canister. For my new Miele C3/S8, I bought a nice metal Miele tool adapter which allows me to use the Kenmore brush with it. But I have learnt that some soft plastics will ALWAYS get fine hairline scratches from even the softest brush. I have ruined turntable covers and clock-radio fronts and even car dashboard plastics by using vacuum dusting brushes. What's shocking is that the bodies of some of the vacs themselves will get fine hairline scratches if dusted with their very own dusting brushes - Kenmore included! After Sweden's AB Electrolux bought Eureka, it was great to see the company marry Eureka's wonderful power nozzles with their high-performing quiet canisters! Best combination I think was the Electrolux Oxygen with the Eureka Express power nozzle. | ||
| Post# 349574 , Reply# 4 4/5/2016 at 10:56 (2,941 days old) by delaneymeegan (Mary Richards lived here) | ||
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OMG
I was thinking of getting a FQ too, but I knew the hose and all accessories and pn had to go. If I were to get the excellent filtering and noise control of a FQ, I would have to marry it to a crush proof electric hose from Eureka, and use a Eureka or Electrolux pn. Also, the clumsy "tool ring" would have to go.
And that telescoping aluminum wand, I have one just like that from the purchase of a Eureka Mity-Might back in 2005. The vac is long gone, but I kept and have used that wand many times. Always with a floor brush-only Electrolux attachment.
And those dusting brushes, even when I've tried other vacuums, like the mity-might, I ditched the accessories that came with it, and used quality electrolux. I haven't paid that much attention to the scratchability of surfaces, but I will now.
I want to know..... what is the meaning of this thing? Why would a company like Bissell do THIS to themselves?
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| Post# 349599 , Reply# 5 4/5/2016 at 14:18 (2,940 days old) by blknblu (CT) | ||
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MD Stealth power nozzle (made by Lindhaus) paired with Electrolux sheath (button lock added)
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Post# 349627 , Reply# 6 4/6/2016 at 05:14 (2,940 days old) by tolivac  (Greenville,NC) |
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Yes,have a Mighty Mite,too-and first thing---threw out that STUPID dust-upholstery tool.Simply bought separate tools and even used some of my Kirby tools-really like Kirbys dust brush.Use it on any vacuum that it fits.So far the Kirby dust brush hasn't scratched any of my critical things. | ||
| Post# 349925 , Reply# 7 4/9/2016 at 22:41 (2,936 days old) by floor-a-matic (somewhere) | ||
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Electrolux model G or L with coiled vinyl electrified hose & PN 1692 or 1693 | ||
| Post# 355464 , Reply# 9 7/6/2016 at 01:11 (2,849 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina) | ||
All of my canisters are Electrolux except for my Filter Queen. I've never tried cross pollenating pieces from the FQ to the Luxes or vice versa because the FQ hose connections are set up bassackwards from Lux and besides, the FQ power nozzle is hands down my least favorite. That said, I do have one somewhat odd combination. I recently acquired a nice PN-4A in Silverado gray to use with my most recently acquired 1205. I have it stuck on the end of a one-piece teal wand that probably originally came with a Model G. It has a pigtail connector at the top instead of a receptacle for the pistol grip hose. Everything plugs up just fine and it works great. It just looks a little odd. The aluminum top shell on the PN-4A is pretty scratched up so I'm considering stripping the paint off of it and polishing the metal. so it'll look beautiful like the PN-2 I use with my Super J.
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| Post# 355478 , Reply# 10 7/6/2016 at 07:39 (2,849 days old) by fan-of-fans (USA) | ||
Haven't really done too much customizing of canisters. The most I did was used my Eureka Mighty Mite attachments with the Shop Vac to clean the car. The Mighty Mite has a nice set of full sized tools that work great with the Shop Vac.
I did use the floor tool from my Hoover stick vac with my Hoover (Penncrest) Constellation, as it was missing. I am thinking of ordering the Kenmore Elite horsehair dusting brush to use on my Kenmore Progressive. My red Progressive, being TOL does have horsehair dusting brush, but it's the weird horse-hoof shaped brush, and it's hard to clean shelves and other tight areas because of it's bulk. The Elite dusting brush is smaller and more traditionally shaped, but will fit the Progressive, plus it appears to have a fuller and softer bristle set, like the older ones Eurekaprince mentioned above. | ||
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