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Hoover Slimline and Portable pre-filter?
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Post# 207560   11/24/2012 at 10:19 (4,167 days old) by fan-of-fans (USA)        

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I was wondering from reading another thread - do the Hoover Slimline and Portable have a pre-motor filter? I've seen photos of the Slimline and they don't seem to have a pre filter, but instead a screen over the fans. I've never seen in a Portable, but I know they used the same motor as the Slimline and D-A-M. It just seems odd to me there's an exhaust filter but no motor filter. I guess it just wasn't feasible.

Post# 207666 , Reply# 1   11/25/2012 at 02:20 (4,167 days old) by thermokid (Casper, Wyoming)        
Slimline/portable

yes the portable has one and the slimline doesn't just a screen, at least that is the way my Hoovers are.. We should ask the Hoover Man (Gottahaveahov.. Aka John Long) But I need some filters for my portables.. does anyone know where to get some??

Post# 208047 , Reply# 2   11/27/2012 at 22:53 (4,164 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640)        
I'm looking at both a Portable and a Slimline

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On the base, to the left side of the switch, is a little door.  I've replaced mine often.  All you need to do is go to a hardware store or H Depot, etc, and get the thi black air conditioner filter.  Cut it to fit, and place it inside.  They work very well.

  Thanks for thinking of me to ask a question.

 John.


Post# 208061 , Reply# 3   11/28/2012 at 09:27 (4,163 days old) by rugsucker (Elizabethton TN)        
Slimline/Portable

From the hinge down these are basicly the same.The Portable would also use a filter behind the Type J bag that is pushed past the 2 bumps on bottom.It has a cardboard frame with crossbars that resembles a ladder as it is sometimes referred to.First Slimline had no cardboard cover with tool storage holes and motor wrapped in colored paper.

Post# 208196 , Reply# 4   11/29/2012 at 21:40 (4,162 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640)        
Yes. The Portable

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has that littlecardboard filter behind the bag.  No longer available,  you can make one with a thick cardboard,  perhaps the thickness of 2 posterboards, or shirt cardboards.  



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