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All was good.After calling eureka and finding that they no longer supply required drive belt I was able to find this one on the web, not very helpful description, I tried it and it's working, seems a bit tight but mabe it will stretch a bit.Got these for a friend's old Eureka upright..the local vac store guy said they don't make it anymore, maybe find belts on Amazon. I had the model #, but no match. These seemed right, but will they fit? Yes! Very easy to install & the old machine is running again?Perhaps the belts are generic or maybe they are just repackaged bulk Eureka parts. Odds are that Eureka buys things like belts and pulleys from the few specialty outfits that make them so the packaging may not matter.The belts I bought worked for a reasonable amount of time on a model 2010 Eureka so I have no reason to complain.Here are a few installation hints that very well may be useful to those of us who have experienced disappointing belt life -- and they apply to the comparable Hoover models too.1) Make absolutely, positively, sure the beater bar spins freely. Yeah, the thing is pretty nasty to clean, but if it doesn't spin freely the belt will suffer. Having family members with long hair in my household, there inevitably are hairs wound tightly around the shaft -- occasionally I've had to chisel them off the shaft with a sharp knife. A drop of oil or a bit of white grease before reassembling the metal ends won't hurt either (just a drop! otherwise the lubricant is certain to show up on your rugs) -- but, the main thing is for the bearing ends to be clean.2) Pay close attention to the twist in the belt. It can go only one way. Stand the vacuum upside down so you can look at the bottom. Before you reinstall the beater bar with a new belt, notice that there is a small pier along the path the belt takes to the metal motor pulley. The top of this pier is concave and appears to keep the belt from fluttering. Make certain that the part of the belt closest to the pier lines up with the concave top of this pier when you install the belt.3) Finally, don't over-stretch the belt. Sure, it feels like it takes a three armed gorilla to lever the beater bar back in with a new belt. The idea is for the belt to be at an optimal tension with only a bit of "overstretch" left (did you know that rubber actually shrinks when it gets hot?) -- it's a narrow window so be careful not to overstretch or even the best solid rubber belt will begin to tear.I learned the hard way...Could not find locally. Fit the vacuum cleaner. Unfortunately, the motor burned out in vacuum and it had to be discarded.Very good delivery time. Belts have very limited stretch so install is a little challenge. Thankful for the good service and I did not have to leave my home and risk coming into a VIRUS attach.Fit and work perfectly! Very happy to find this part for my very old vacuum. The price is low. Two items are good for a while.Simple inexpensive replacement⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️?I own a fifty-year old Eureka vacuum cleaner and it worked perfectly until the rubber drive strap broke a dozen years ago. My wife and I then hired a monthly house cleaning crew so the vacuum cleaner was not missed.Because of the pandemic, we asked our cleaners to stay away and I decided to do the cleaning myself. After many months, I decided I would have to get my old vacuum cleaner repaired and that's when I ordered these two rubber belts. I had to work at getting a belt attached to the vacuum because the belt has to be stretched quite a bit but, once on, my old Eureka upright started working like a champ once again. I am completely happy with this purchase.These are the real deal Eureka. Working well for several months, unlike hardware store knock-offs that have broken quickly. Note this size fits a Bay Beaumark model 99101 - not so easy to find these days.Buena calidadThey do the job, its a vacuum belt.
