"David Farber" wrote in
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The model number is 113.179255.

A picture of the filter is he
http://webpages.charter.net/mrfixiter/index.html


The nut you see at the top of the picture won't budge. Thus, I cannot
remove the filter. I called Sears and they said it should come off
easily without any tools. The vacuum is less than a year old and only
used a couple of times. I don't think I ever removed the filter
before. You can see how mangled that plastic nut is now after trying
every tool the in drawer to remove it. (Why would they use a plastic
nut?) I must be missing something really obvious. One other thing I
should mention, the owners manual shows the parts blow up which
includes a "filter nut lever." I didn't see anything like that
attached to or near the nut.

Thanks for your replies.

If his is anything like the old, old SHopvac, you don't need the nut.
All the filters I have had were frictionfit (some fell off easily,
though!). I just bought a replacement at Home Depot since the guy I had
lent the vac too gave it back so filthy, I chewed off half the filter
trying to clean it with a garden hose :-(

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Best regards
Han
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