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Thread Number: 41206
/ Tag: 50s/60s/70s Vacuum Cleaners
Trying to restore my Grandmas Old Electrolux 1205 |
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| Post# 437197 , Reply# 2 1/8/2021 at 19:47 (1,202 days old) by Jo (Dallas,TX) | ||
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Hardly cheap The Electrolux 1205 was hardly a cheap vacuum of its time but rather one of the most expensive vacuums money could buy and they are great quality and many are still going today. Hence fixing it up is worth the time! Jon | ||
| Post# 437221 , Reply# 4 1/9/2021 at 13:02 (1,201 days old) by Jo (Dallas,TX) | ||
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Oh wow Doesn’t sound good. What a shame. I’d probably salvage what I could for parts and let the rest go, sometimes things are just too far gone and there are others available you can buy inexpensively. Ur Mom should have just given it to you at the get go when she didn’t want it. Jon | ||
| Post# 437224 , Reply# 5 1/9/2021 at 13:50 (1,201 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina) | ||
I'm thinking parts donor...
Sadly, what you describe doesn't sound very good at all. Standing water and electric motors generally don't mix well. I have to agree with Jon, you may be better off salvaging what you can as spare parts with the idea of incorporating them into another, a more restorable 1205 at a later date. Doing this would, in a sense, allow at least some part of your grandmother's 1205 to live on.
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| Post# 437226 , Reply# 6 1/9/2021 at 14:04 (1,201 days old) by aprules2 (New Jersey) | ||
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Here's some pics Im going to atleast try and see what I can do. | ||
Post# 437231 , Reply# 7 1/9/2021 at 17:45 (1,201 days old) by gottahaveahoove  (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640) |
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Although I'm all Hoover, | ||
| Post# 437246 , Reply# 8 1/9/2021 at 22:03 (1,201 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina) | ||
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| Post# 437247 , Reply# 9 1/9/2021 at 22:33 (1,201 days old) by huskyvacs (Gnaw Bone, Indiana) | ||
Definitely not for parts, people just don't like to put the restoration work into things anymore. They want the instant results right now, and don't want to do the weeks of work to get there.
The corrosion on the chrome can be taken out with a bench buffer over repeated pass-overs layer by layer until shiny, and all the chassis rust is superficial and will come off with the media blasting. Sodablasting is what you want to do, as in using baking soda and not sand, which is a lot safer and less destructive when working with thin metal like this. The plastic can be whitened again with the Retrobrighting process en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retr0brigh... The housing of the Electrolux is mostly impervious to water, the motor will be in fine shape. I'll bet money if you plugged it in, it will turn on. | ||
| Post# 437387 , Reply# 12 1/15/2021 at 12:36 (1,195 days old) by Jo (Dallas,TX) | ||
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The power nozzle... Is actually a pn 4a from the early Silverado era, the early Silverado’s were equipped with this power nozzle and the later ones had the first generation of the L shaped design and were pn-5 models. Looks like the power nozzle cord though is a tan one from the Olympia era. Jon | ||
| Post# 437403 , Reply# 13 1/16/2021 at 09:37 (1,194 days old) by detroitdirtbag (Bottom of the Bag) | ||
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