I have an older Electrolux canister vacuum cleaner. I have had it since my mom died in 2009 and we distributed the items from the house. Before that it was used in the 90’s as divine suction. It was used weekly to clean up the church. Mom and dad inherited it when the church closed in the 90’s sometime. I have cherished it as well as using it regularly. Most recently the power head stopped working. I tried everything.
I had replaced the hose a few years ago and when I did the vacuum specialist told me this vacuum was a gem and to take good care of it as I would never in my lifetime find another as good. His words, “they don’t make them like they used to!” So when the power head stopped working I felt it could not be the hose because that piece is fairly new.
This vacuum has multiple points of power plugging in here and there along the hose. I test and tried every combination. I could not get it to work. Jim, the maintenance person for this building was working with a couple of people and I asked if any of them had a tester and explained my dilemma. The one fella said he had one in the truck and would go and get it. My plan was to test from the wall to the powerhead to see where the breakdown was.
As the fella went to his truck I gave it one more try. I plugged everything in and with hope turned it on. The power head remained quiet and unproductive. Then I noticed a small switch on the top. I toggled it and the powerhead started up! I was astonished because I thought I had tried every which way of on’s and off’s with all the switches. Obviously, I missed one combination.
It taught me a valuable lesson yet again. There may still be one way, one combination that will make things right. Never give up the quest, or in this case, never give up on divine suction, its present always one just needs to get the flow right.
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