Here's my Lil beauty :) hehe.

It needs it's bearings greasing mind, so i'll need some advice.

Ian

It's a Hoover btw if you were wondering lol. 1978 I believe.

Didn't we learn last time?! Might be better to leave it alone :P

Hilarious...

Maybe I should just keep it as it is and have it growling like chewbacca and smelling of shite, Jack? :P lol

Hmph, the seller said it worked fine too... lol

I like that, the colour combo is eye catching too.

Is that going to be our phrase du jour?

If that cleaner is anything like the Hooverette inside, it'll be a pain to reassemble. If anyone has a copy of the exploded parts diagram for that model, it might help.

Yeah, the motor is a bit of a pain to get at mate.

I'll give it a proper look at tonight no doubt :)

It's still a cute little Christmas prezzie to myself imo.

Ian

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, here's a fascinating little video from the early '60s. It's not a stick vacuum, but it is a Hoover.

£18!? talk about old prices.

If they cost that much nowerdays I could buy em for each member of my family :P

...£18 in old money works out at about £260 today.

That's still bloody cheap :P imo.

not in america that is like 300 maybe more

In todays money that 18 pounds would be $503 USD however back in 1964 that vacuum would more than likely have only cost half that amount in the US and Canada at that time. Appliances were phenommenally more expensive in the UK than N.America

Looking at that vac it looks very much the clone of my Canadian Electrolux Tri Vac..can you take a picture it opened up where you put the bag or empty it?

I wonder if it's a commercial model? The orange and black suggests that to me.

They're very odd, I don't think I've ever seen one of these listed in a UK brochure, but some seem to have made it over! Hoover UK seemed hell bent on flogging the Hooverette, even though no-one wanted 'em!

Si

Says Made in France on the (badly) faded Ratings Label (you know how the 1970s/1980s ones are, white on black)

Would be interesting if it is a commercial model, it appears to be the top of the line model with Electronic power control.

I've two theories.

A.) It naturally sounds throaty, and that smell is merely dust burning off (!) lol.

B.) The Bearings are shot to hell.

As you can imagine i'm hoping it's A.) :P

Thats £276 odd in todays ££s

I believe there were approx $3 US to the £ in the 60s so it wasnt that much more expensive than the US model?

Seamus

Of course, imo an old Hoover pays for itself many times over and over ;]

Ya know, at least I can feasably fix this stick vac (it turns on fine, works..just sounds a bit throaty)

Nowerdays it's chop and change, use for a year and chuck it, it's sad in a weird sort of way...as my dad said about this Morphy Richards upright (ya know the nasty plastic cyclonic crap) "The only way yer could get to the motor is by breaking the casing open." which, as you can imagine...isn't the way :P

Ian

Difficult to say. I have a 1973 Cdn catalog with the Connie priced at $39.90 Cdn. Our dollar was close on par with the US at that time but things were generally a few dollars cheaper on the US side so I would guess it probably sold for about $35 USD in 1973 so would stand to reason that it was even a little less than that in 1964-65 which would make it close to half the UK price.
I have this recollection back to 1972 when I stayed with my great aunt in Manchester. I was with my cousin whose mom worked at a Littlewoods and we went down to the store and she bought an electric iron which I thought was super expensive compared to what it would have cost here at the time also that it didn't even come with the plug on the end of the cord which seemed strange to me.

Hm, it seems my Stickvac has a little socket for an electric turbobrush, the intrigue deepens... lol.

As for the motor I've cleaned the somewhat burnt remains of a filter (just one of those permanant foam jobs which was to keep the motor fairly quiet, they always seem to perish with old Hoovers lol, and i'm going to spray the motor with some WD40 tomorrow..bit safer than greasing I reckon, and it does the job as well as anything else imo.

Ian

Nice machine :)

In the mid 70's the English Pound was going for about $4.20 Canadian.

Re: no plug on the cord for Pete. Up untill the 80's (I believe) when they changed the standards you could find a number of different outlets in homes in the UK. The ones that come to mind are a fused 13 A - 3 flat pin (used presently) 3 round pins (2, 5 and 15 amp versions) and one round pin and two flat (5 and 15 amp versions). As well there were earlier two pin versions of the round ones too. Consequently there were no plugs on the appliances as they had no way of knowing which one to use. Just to confuse things further - there was also a plug available that was made to fit a lamp socket as well. Guess we had it easy in Canada and the US with only one main style of plug.

Think WD-40 could sort out the motor? get dust out of the bearings and the like, that's prob what's causing the slight burning smell too.

Ian

I'm just gonna give up on her, write her off to experience..

won't believe what it did today.

What did it do, Ian?

Well I was using it..worked fine, just a bit loud..turned it to the lowest setting just to see, loud unhealthy noise, massive vibrations..smell of burning and dust farting out the back.


Needless to say I used the Constellation.

if it were me I would keep fixing it until I solved the problem. like the saying. "if at first you don't suceed try try again" I am sure something would work out just fine

I think the motor's not seated properly, i'm not sure though.

It's a right pain to get into I can tell you.

usually plastic machines like that are a pain really cheap too. Id say they are not worth fixing but for a simple thing like that it might be. sounds like there is dirt or dust on or around the carbon brushes remove them and blow out the armature and where you insert the brushes that might be a quick solution. every machine that I fixed with that problem there was dirt in those areas.

I'm gonna have to disconnect a lot of wires to get the motor out, sigh..

Damn late 1970s electronics :P

how many wires are we talking? if it is that many than whew use masking tape and a marker. tape wires and mark where they go. Piece of pie. hey also check out my thread it is My hoover Model 28 I just recieved it 2 days ago and it is all original