Thread Number: 23721
Hoover Compact S3396 June 1985 |
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Post# 265606 , Reply# 1   1/31/2014 at 19:31 (3,708 days old) by suckolux (Yuba City, CA)   |   | |
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Post# 265609 , Reply# 2   1/31/2014 at 19:40 (3,708 days old) by super-sweeper (KSSRC Refurbishment Center)   |   | |
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Post# 265630 , Reply# 3   2/1/2014 at 00:08 (3,708 days old) by SeamusUK (Dover Kent UK)   |   | |
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Hi Sam My NIB S3005 Celebrity had that material as a motor filter, as it had been sat in the box since 1975 it crumbled to dust when I touched it so it now has a cut to fit universal one- not that I intend to use it!!. Seamus |
Post# 265653 , Reply# 4   2/1/2014 at 05:19 (3,708 days old) by beko1987 (Stokenchurch, United Kingdom)   |   | |
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He he the .5 refers to I have 4 of them, 1 is done, this is half done and I have 2 more to go! |
Post# 265972 , Reply# 6   2/3/2014 at 18:02 (3,705 days old) by suckolux (Yuba City, CA)   |   | |
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Post# 274343 , Reply# 9   3/31/2014 at 14:40 (3,649 days old) by beko1987 (Stokenchurch, United Kingdom)   |   | |
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The comm stick is great! Just a quick press either side of the brushes so the material passes underneath and it suddenly freed itself up and ran like a beaut! I had a lady collect a Dyson whilst I was doing it and even she seemed impressed! |
Post# 274354 , Reply# 10   3/31/2014 at 16:10 (3,649 days old) by beko1987 (Stokenchurch, United Kingdom)   |   | |
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Video finally uploaded! And yes, I do feel bad for letting the poles clatter to the floor like that! Hoover Compact S3396 motor fixed: |
Post# 274496 , Reply# 11   4/2/2014 at 02:47 (3,648 days old) by spiraclean (UK)   |   | |
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Great job on the restore, these cleaners are so easy to take apart and service with that removable centre bulkhead. As long as the motor works there isn't much that can go wrong on them. Really I didn't think they were bad machines at all, it's just Hoover's choice in floor heads over the years that was a bit iffy - but that can easily be solved by sticking something better on for actual use, and keeping the original for display purposes.
My parents had this model back in the day, theirs was a couple of years earlier though. Identical save for a cream/brown toolkit, which came with the basic "edge cleaning" type floor head as found on the Portapowers of the time, and an all purpose brush in lieu of the separate upholstery and dusting tools. There might have been a version with brown tools after that unless my memory is playing tricks on me, and the one you have with black accessories and the Contour style handgrip was the final revision. The lack of cord winder is a bit of a let down, and probably explains why virtually every one of these I've seen over the years has had a kinked or spiralled cable. Maybe that's why Hoover went to the somewhat unusual step of including cord replacement instructions in the user manual, something that would never happen nowadays. Of course, it was all done to persuade the buyer to step up to the Compact Super. Hoover were always very big on creating a clear good/better/best distinction in their lineup, which they then confused by offering yet another choice of cleaners in a different style that did exactly the same thing! |