Lewyt vs Electrolux

[aeoliandave]

This is the first plug-in 115 VAC Motorized Beater Sweeper with the headlight in the front edge posed with a Model 77; I have it plugged into an extension cord. My Model 107 has a severely rusted bucket and paint and awaits restoration. The Lewyt PN drives the brushroll through gears, not a belt.

Fred Stachnik has a superb Model 121. I'm sure there are many more Electronics out there among Vacuumland members.

 

[aeoliandave]

Guts of the Motorized Beater Sweeper, lamp socket being replaced. Smart and economical elegant engineering.

 

[hooverwheelaway]

**swoon**

Super Jealous of that Motorized Beater-Sweeper! It's super beautiful!
((Hint that you'll have to bring that to the convention in September!))



**swoon**

 

[supersuds]

"Do it with Lewyt!"

It wasn't until seeing that advertising phrase that I knew how to pronounce Lewyt.

 

[maytagbear]

Wee Davey---

Are you trying to do the "Whee! It's on Wheels!" move there?

Brilliant power nozzle. NO Belt! I dislike the power nozzle on my Hoover Wind Tunnel canister because of the belt.

I don't think I have EVER seen a Lewyt here in Hoover/Kirbyland Ohio.

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

[norgeway]

Lewyt 66

That is one I used to have, the original motor was sick so I put in a newer Lamb and really pepped it up!

 

[rocketwarrior]

Lewyticrous

As you know, I tend to cannibalize cleaners for my 'art'. I have this item in storage. If anyone is interested in it for parts or as a start in the Lewyt area, let me know. Be happy to trade for Compacts, or L shaped Lux's (I don't need motors or attachments)

 

[circlew]

We never had a Lewyt cleaner, but we did have a Lewyt "Treasure Chest" that one had come in. It was used as our toy box, and was covered in a quilted red vinyl material. I still have the lid and hinges, but the bottom was ruined in a basement flood. Not sure where it came from, but a friend of my parents that lived around the corner did have a vacuum cleaner that had the big wheels, and may have been a Lewyt. She may have given the box to us.

One of my neighbors says she has a Lewyt, but I've never seen it. Will have to ask her what it looks like.

 

[washernoob]

MARK!

I'd gladly trade for the Lewyt. But I will be needing to find something to trade with.

Do have some 16" brass blades from an old dayton fan.

A Western electric telephone. I have two and they are identical almost.

Im sure i got some other junk that I dont need! hehe.

 

[paulg]

Point of pride?

I remember seeing old ads where LEWYT was the vacuum of choice for hospitals as it was very quiet.
Don't know if they are really quiet. Perhaps y'all know.
However LEWYT is on my radar at estate sales. The next one I see is mine mine mine!

 

[retromania]

Western Electric Tele

Are they the new jack, old jack or the kind that was direct wired?

 

[retromania]

Ahhh. How quiet it is!

My 1955 Electrolux cannister is a quiet machine. The motor sounds so smooth! It still draws hard which is amazing for its age!

 

[washernoob]

Hey...

Both my WE phones are the old style 4 prong square ones.

The left one is the one I am looking to part with. The right one I use all the time.

The left one is a little newer. Like 65 or so. Its got the new plastic style handle.

The Right one is around 61 or 62. Its got the old bakelite handle.

 

[retromania]

I always said...

You didn't a gun in the house for protection. Just swing one of those old WE handsets around in the air and the intruder got bopped by it it would knock them out. And especially the WE's from the 1940's. There was still one of those really old ones in the house I grew up in in the 60's. It had a metal dial and everything. It was HEAVVVY!

 

[washernoob]

Hehe.

Just throw the entire phone. Its all metal except for the shell! The bakelite headset is hefty! Thick B.L and metal innards.

 

[aeoliandave]

Ad scan for the 1950 Lewyt non-electric Carpet Sweeper Rug Nozzle. As the copy explains it was not motorized - rubber side wheels revolved the brush. It could be used alone or in concert with your Model 44. I've not seen one in person.

Fred, are you hinting that your 121's beater sweeper wants to go up against 120 volts? Does your Beater Sweeper not look like mine inside?

I always figured that if & when I find an otherwise complete shorted-out 111 or 121 Electronic that I'd replace both the main fan and beater motors and rewire the machine to send 120 volts down the hose & wands, restoring function the safe way. (Or if the beater motor is ok I would just bypass the main motor and wire in a remote transformer in the base doing away with that pesky double field winding problem).
You can imagine how tempted I've been to retrofit a 120 v plug-in socket to the 77...

 

[washernoob]

Is that a vacuumland POD? Ive seen that nozzle somewhere. Dont recall if it was in an ad, or photograph.

Oh my. Makes me want to hop down to both the Odowds and search for one!

I did find a big heavy airway Rugmaster in yellowish color with that hammertone tristar CXLish metal. Hes surely got to have some other oddities.

 

[rocketwarrior]

Brandon

Let me make it tough for you, pal. Bring something(s) by that you think is a fair trade and it's yours (smile). And what the heck, I might buy you coffee.

 

[hooverwheelaway]

Dave-

Our Lewyt doesn't have a powernozzle... Robert found the cleaner, wands, hose at an estate sale... when he explained to me what he had found -- and I picked myself up off the floor -- he turned around and went back to the estate sale to scour the house for any sign of the BeaterSweeper. No luck. :-(

~F

 

[aeoliandave]

Whoops Fred, I was confuzzled. I remember your post when you got the 121.

But in my Lewyt file I also have this picture of you and Robert posing with a first prize winning 121 so jumped to the conclusion that this is yours.

So, who's is it and what Convention did it be at?

My nozzle is not perfect. The plastic clip caps are broken off the wand's ratchet connector locks, the flexible rubber neck tube is cracked open, and the paint is severely bubbled where corrosion has set in.
What is perfect is it's motor and geartrain, the opaque headlight lens is intact, it glides over the carpet smoothly and the cord is all original with Lewyt plug.
BUT! in my quest to make it operational and cosmetically pleasing I have inserted a plastic corrugated inner sleeve in the neck tube and found a piece of triangular section rubber trim to replace the missing bumper.

The paint is not hammertone but more a silvery blue. I can match it at the autopaint store so the plan would be to strip the cast aluminum shell and bake on a new finish when I fix up the whole vacuum. I don't have the specific gray tools for it but can borrow them from the 120. As I said the Lewyt 107's fan motor is toast and the carcass is a bodywork restoration project of Crevicetool proportions...

Regardless if I manage to do this I will bring it to Minneapolis. This thread gives me the urge to get my ass in gear and complete the restoration.

I've been pondering what 'foreign' vacuums to bring to Minneapolis that have the most likelyhood of not having been seen already and now I will put this oddball Lewyt on the shortlist.

This is the 'as found' shot.