Edit: talked to somebody at Shark and I basically have to remove the plastic body from the vacuum to get the thing out.

Hello!

I have two Shark vacuums and the hoses are shot on one (NV211L), and the other doesn't turn on (NV42). I'm trying to take the lower hose assembly off of the NV42 and put them on the NV211L, but I can't figure out how to remove them from either vacuum.

I've looked up a couple videos of people removing this part, but it seems that their part has visible clips you can just squeeze in and use to unclip the hose. I don't see that on mine. I removed the screws on either side of the part that goes into the vacuum, though I think they're part of holding the outer plastic case onto the vacuum.

I have found what I believe is this part on eBay and it does seem that the part that goes into the vacuum has some clip that might be inside the actual vacuum body.

Is there an easy way to get this thing off, or do I have to take the entire side of the vacuum off to get to it?

I got this image off eBay. I think it's the part I have on my vacuum. It looks like it has little clips - I can't actually see these on the ones on my vacuum and think maybe they're internal? I don't know.

Side view of my vacuum. I'm trying to remove the part that has the hose with the duct tape.

The hose assembly I'm trying to remove. The gray plastic part needs to detach from the purple part. I've removed the two screws here and that does nothing.

I need to find some sort of directions how to detach the upper hose docking port from a Shark Rotator NV255 (two-five-five, not typing it wrong) hose. The hose has split almost entirely from it, so I'd like to detach it from the piece that docks to the base, trim the tear, and reattach to give this thing a few more months of life until I can afford to buy a replacement. Buying a replacement hose handle is also not a viable option as any ones that are listed as compatible with the NV255 are expensive enough I'm halfway to a new vaccum at that point.

Every tutorial I can find is either referring to disassembling just the top handle, or the docking piece is from a different model that is a different shape than mine.

Parts for this NV255 has been a nightmare, it seems to be one of those less common models manufactured for Walmart/Sam's. If there is a different model that has compatible parts, I'd love to know. Any advice you can offer would be appreciated.