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1949 Modern Hygiene - Style above all.
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Post# 53370   10/12/2008 at 00:00 (5,646 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)        

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Had last night off so did a quick once over on this stunning Brooks Stevens designed machine. Put on a new brown ribbed rubber cord and straightened out the runners. In the process of taking it all apart fixed a few problems that came to light.

The motor seats in a rubber surround ring against the bag chamber grill and is held tight with a single circular rubber dome button under a span strap across the brush end, which had compacted. Shimmed it snug with a 1/16" rubber washer and the suction went from 45 " to 65" - like new. A Compact paper bag w cardboard ring is a perfect fit inside the cloth bag, btw.

Both 4.5" long polished cast aluminum caps are hollow except for the intake/exhaust tube extensions and serve only to complete the style sculpture lines - the motor and bag combination fills the central 16" long maroon wrinkle painted sheet metal can with no overhang.

So, essentially, the vacuum could have been only 17" long with end caps but would not have had such glorious style. Thank gawd it does pull 65" or it would be style over function. LOL

After a few tests, restored the sheen & gleam of the wrinkle paint with Simoniz semi-gloss Dashboard Poly Wipes.

Despite the fact that the caps are hollow and have no muffler felt lining, after filters or flat sealing plates the machine is almost as quiet as an Electrolux.

Hose is cosmetically intact and merely needs the Latex treatment to function like new.

Luv it to bits and lucky to have it in such complete conditon. The tiny nozzle is so cute. The felt pad fits into the large floor nozzle.

Felix and Hector approved, of course.

Anyone by chance have a Users Manual to post?

and just to make us all sad enough to pull out clumps of hair...a scenic artist friend at work today told me that only 3 weeks ago he threw out Four 30+ year old jars of original color actual Hammertone paint found in his Dad's basement!!! He even shook them and declared they were sloshing around and described them as the old color tones of blue, pale green, a brownish maroon and gray. They are long gone to the dump. :-( He asked himself who would want them and forgot I collect vacuums.

Win some, lose some.


Post# 53389 , Reply# 1   10/12/2008 at 10:02 (5,646 days old) by truckerx (Palm Springs, CA)        
Beautiful !......

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...That's a beautifully designed machine that I'm sure you must be very proud of.

Post# 53514 , Reply# 2   10/14/2008 at 03:39 (5,644 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill (Birthplace of the Railway),England, UK.)        
Modern Vacs...

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Nothing better than bring an oldie back to life!!!, looks an impressive array of attachments as well...imagine taking this out of the box as new!!!

enjoy, Mike


Post# 53516 , Reply# 3   10/14/2008 at 06:04 (5,644 days old) by z30soulbrother (West Midlands, UK)        
quite electrolux

quite electrolux dont you think? has that solid strong appearence that your z30s/55s etc had at that time. Lovely machine
si



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