JimT wrote:
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.

Yes, epic fail. (I always wanted to use that term on the internet (-

Ok, I just kept twisting until the "nut" came off. Scroll down and see the
results. http://webpages.charter.net/mrfixiter Then see what turned up a
little while later hiding in a pile of papers. Didn't anyone at the two
Sears stores I called AND their parts department know about this?

Thanks for your reply.
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David Farber
Los Osos, CA