On 8/21/2011 2:19 AM, David Farber wrote:
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.

Cut the whole thing off. It looks like it's made of plastic and paper.

What usually do is cuss a lot and mangle until I get the results I want.