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| Post# 239358 7/8/2013 at 14:18 (3,944 days old) by anthony (leeds uk) | ||
found this in Oxfam today and at 4.99 i couldnt resist it although not sure all the tools belong with this machine got it home and plugged it in and away it went very good suction even with an extremely full bag it is noisy and theres a squeaking sound as it slows down after switch off so i will do the usual lube job
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| Post# 239359 , Reply# 1 7/8/2013 at 14:20 (3,944 days old) by anthony (leeds uk) | ||
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tools | ||
| Post# 239360 , Reply# 2 7/8/2013 at 14:22 (3,944 days old) by anthony (leeds uk) | ||
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dirty hose | ||
| Post# 239361 , Reply# 3 7/8/2013 at 14:24 (3,944 days old) by dysondestijl (east midlands, UK) | ||
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Wow what a great find not seen a vacuum in Oxfam for years | ||
| Post# 239363 , Reply# 4 7/8/2013 at 14:27 (3,944 days old) by anthony (leeds uk) | ||
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motor out
it looks quite big but once the case is removed its tiny the fans are bigger in diamiter than those on an Electrolux but a lot thinner and there seems to be a lot of unnessisary metalmaking the motor heavy its had a lube job and a good clean inside and out ready to go back into the case once its had a bath
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| Post# 239364 , Reply# 5 7/8/2013 at 14:32 (3,944 days old) by anthony (leeds uk) | ||
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the bag
has been washed and dryed in one of these another relic from the past .It has a rather odd bag arangement [the bag being permenantly atached to the front cover and an opening in the bottom held shut by velcro [i didnt think velcro was around when thes vac was made]not very safe considering there is no filter between the bag and the motor ok guys more pics of it going back together
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| Post# 239365 , Reply# 6 7/8/2013 at 14:37 (3,944 days old) by anthony (leeds uk) | ||
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incidentaly | ||
| Post# 239396 , Reply# 7 7/8/2013 at 16:06 (3,943 days old) by Collector2 (Moose Jaw, Sk) | ||
Hey Anthony:
Nice find!!! The flip over rug tool is from an Electrolux as is the crevice tool with the long hose end and the dual dusting brush. The rest of the parts are from the Goblin. I've included a Catalogue picture (showing the original rug and floor nozzle) that Al sent me some time back. Doug 
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| Post# 239401 , Reply# 8 7/8/2013 at 16:51 (3,943 days old) by anthony (leeds uk) | ||
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thanks for that | ||
| Post# 239407 , Reply# 10 7/8/2013 at 17:33 (3,943 days old) by sebo_fan (Scotland, UK, member AKA ukvacfan, & Nar2) | ||
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| Post# 239409 , Reply# 11 7/8/2013 at 17:40 (3,943 days old) by Collector2 (Moose Jaw, Sk) | ||
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| Post# 239418 , Reply# 12 7/8/2013 at 19:44 (3,943 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
I love all white attachments! They seem so much "cleaner" to use on household furnishings! Even though you need to wash them every so often, they seem much nicer for home cleaning than the ubiquitous black tools that come with almost every vac today. I remember how one of the black dusting brushes I once owned literally left crayon-like black stripes on a white ceiling when I used it to dust a curtain rod! :-(
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| Post# 239444 , Reply# 14 7/9/2013 at 06:23 (3,943 days old) by sebo_fan (Scotland, UK, member AKA ukvacfan, & Nar2) | ||
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Dont know about Miele but due to the popularity of SEBO, you can still pick up the cream tools and grey tools either from SEBO UK or online auction sites either down to stripping down old models and thus have an excess of cream tools as well as the ones that go mysteriously missing when old commercial uprights are passed around.
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| Post# 239450 , Reply# 15 7/9/2013 at 08:50 (3,943 days old) by kirbymodel2c (Nottingham, England) | ||
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| Post# 239496 , Reply# 16 7/9/2013 at 14:47 (3,943 days old) by anthony (leeds uk) | ||
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the odd bag
heres a pic of the bag arangement the velcro was worn out so i got the singer out and put some new on i can imagine this would be really awkward to empty because you cant turn it inside out and give it a good bang on somthing [i usually do it on the hedge at the back of the garden]i have managed to fit a Hoover paper bag so that will save the cloth bag somewhat god forbid that velcro comes undone everything would go straight into the motor i thought the little pocket was a repair but its not maybe it was for some kind of air freshener
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| Post# 239499 , Reply# 17 7/9/2013 at 14:59 (3,943 days old) by anthony (leeds uk) | ||
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all done
here it is all put back together and nice and clean inside and out it was in really good condition under all the dirt the blue rexine was coming off in various places so i decided to pull it off and reglue it with carpet glue although its noisy its extremely powefull if you put your hand over the hose end is shrinks till its only about 3 feet long and yes there is a small upholstery toolvery similar to an Electrolux one the only thing missing is the proper floor tool the one that came with it is from an Electrolux the one age old problem with Goblin machines was the push in hose that comes out when dragging the machine around as i said its a good powerfull machine but in my opinion its a very clumsy and hasnt got the good looks or streamlining of an Electrolux i still like it though
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| Post# 239501 , Reply# 18 7/9/2013 at 15:02 (3,943 days old) by anthony (leeds uk) | ||
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last one | ||
| Post# 239539 , Reply# 19 7/9/2013 at 21:49 (3,942 days old) by Collector2 (Moose Jaw, Sk) | ||
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| Post# 239540 , Reply# 20 7/9/2013 at 21:58 (3,942 days old) by kenkart () | ||
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I love!! Seeing these European machines!! | ||
| Post# 239566 , Reply# 21 7/10/2013 at 03:27 (3,942 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield & London) | ||
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Another bang up job you have done there Anthony, it looks great and even better that you have almost all of the original tool kit for it. Given that this was the TOL machine, I could never understand why Goblin put their cheapest hose on it, the same as on the economy 555 model.
What I did not realise until I got one myself was that the body is all plastic, this may possibly have been the earliest appearance of an all plastic bodied machine. Looking at the cord grommet, I think this machine may have had a grey original flex (as would have the 555, presumably the 666 and the Housemaid models) although in in its earliest (mid 1960s) version it would probably have been blue or turquoise. I have an Electra branded version of their upright cleaner (102/103/104 series) which has a shake out bag inside the cloth bag (it fits on the bellows like a paper bag) and it too is sealed with Velcro, which does not seem very practical - it would surely have been just as easy to supply a bag that could have been folded over and secured with a slide Al | ||
| Post# 239606 , Reply# 22 7/10/2013 at 11:14 (3,942 days old) by anthony (leeds uk) | ||
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hi Vacbear
the flex was blue there was about 9 inches of it inside the machine where someone had added the white flex with a taped up join which i cant understand surely if your going to the trouble of taking the back off the machine the conector block is staring you on the face so why do a join and yes i think the slide on clip would have been better than the velcro or even just the usual Goblin bag with the metal ring in the end. I may fashion some kind of filter to put behind the bag do you know if there was ever a filter at the back after the motor as you say it was Goblins best offering you would think there would have been as for the hose yes it could have been better having said that its stood the test of time and lasted longer than some of the Hoover stretch ones of the same period. We used to get lots of customers asking if we could fit a diffrent type of hose to there Hoover machine as some of them would be on there second or third hose when the machine was only 2 or 3 years old
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