What a magnificent find and a fantastic price! I'm happy to be the whipping boy that gave Matt the impetus to find that cream puff...lol.

My eBay 880 came today all broken down in a box. Wish I could say it was an incredible find too, but alas I cannot. I wished I had offered him even less, he probably would have taken it.

These are the issues so far;

1 Belt looks like toast

2 Needs new brush roll

3 Bag has someone's dirt in it(pet peeve of mine)

4 Outer bag is some generic thing with a spring and a hole that was not pictured in the auction(the hole). 

5 Dented Adjust-O-Rite face. I can get it close to perfect with a small ball peen and the head taped....lot of time there(already torn apart).

On the plus side, I see no rust and other than the bag, it appears to be all there. The wheels are decent and will clean up fine with denatured alcohol-not beat up and worn down. She's seen some use for sure, but not excessive. 

Rather than put it all back together, I'll post some pics of the parts and then again after she's restored....may be some time though before she's done. She has to share my time with other hobbies needs.

Kevin

That brush roll is spendy....even if it's NOS! Plus he wants $20 to ship to me...that's crazy.

The Adjust-O-Rite plate if you blow it up with the eBay magnifier...has some dents in it. Although the paint is marginally better than mine, I can get my dents out for the most part. And he lying, it's not "Like New" at all. I'll wait for a better one to surface on the bay unless they are uber rare?

Thanks once again for the help and the part numbers! I may convert my outer bag to Type B so I can use HEPA bags......and have an original Type A bag blue, for show. 

Kevin

I've got that place bookmarked. I was gonna call them directly when I'm ready to spend some more $$ on the 880. There was another place I found that had the Type A bag but in orange....I'm not doing that.

Matt found some HEPA F G bags too....so I will be set if I can score a blue outer bag. 

Kevin

I got the seller on eBay to come down on his shipping for the 880 brush roll priced @$37.99 and I bought it. These NOS brush rolls aren't cheap no matter who your source is.

This seller doesn't have any other vac parts and was pricing it to sell.  His high shipping cost is an effort to recover the fees eBay is charging him. Generally, I try to stay away from sellers trying to do that...especially the ones that reduce the item cost and hammer you for shipping. I've seen light items sell for $10 and then shipping was $15-$25.

Kevin

Here's another brush roll, just like the one I showed you before that you finally got, but this one is really priced outrageously!

I actually saw that same brush roll listed twice;once at a vac place and once on eBay...same pic and same price so I assumed it was the same vendor.

I figured that was the 'high-end' of those brush roll prices for NOS and the one I bought was the 'low-end' price for NOS.

That's a sad commentary on those wheels, Robert....obviously they were made to withstand indoor environs. As I discussed with Matt....I can't fathom why Royal didn't go with polyurethane wheels like skateboards did. Technology has been there since the early 70's.... it's relatively cheap, they would last forever in a home environ etc. Some of today's longboards have wheels very large and similar to the Royals. If you could make shaft size compatible, you could use those awesome ball bearings skaters use and ride your Royal down a paved hill!

Kevin