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Another Hoover joins the team!!! |
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Post# 269671   2/28/2014 at 00:30 (3,682 days old) by Durango159 (State College, PA)   |   | |
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Post# 269672 , Reply# 1   2/28/2014 at 00:32 (3,682 days old) by Durango159 (State College, PA)   |   | |
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Post# 269673 , Reply# 2   2/28/2014 at 00:33 (3,682 days old) by Durango159 (State College, PA)   |   | |
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Post# 269675 , Reply# 3   2/28/2014 at 00:48 (3,682 days old) by Durango159 (State College, PA)   |   | |
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I guess I'll show you what it is now!!! This beauty arrived on Tuesday night!!! It is a Thank You gift from our very own Roger Brown!! I assisted Roger in advice online with repairing his Hoover Windtunnel Self Propelled upright. In doing so he felt the urge to thank me for the assistance with this. I had spotted it days prior on eBay and along with other ebay postings by other members and general vac chat on an FB page he decided to purchase this as a heartfelt gesture!! My brain is numb from the extraordinary kind giving of this PowerMax by Roger in addition to previously gifted machines to me by Mark Amico, John Long and Bill Wood!!
Many of you are aware of my passion for the Hoover PowerMax series canisters!!! This machine is what created that passion. My family purchased this model machine on 9/26/97, 2 days following my 15th Birtday. They also purchased a Sony Discman portable CD player as my birthday present!---I also considered the Hoover a birthday gift!! It marks my first experience in trying a machine of this series!! |
Post# 269676 , Reply# 4   2/28/2014 at 00:54 (3,682 days old) by Durango159 (State College, PA)   |   | |
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9.8 Amp motor compared to most other manufacturers 12 Amp canister vac systems. This machine was second from TOL at the top with the Hoover PowerMax Supreme green Emerald Green S3611 with variable speed on hose handle being the TOL model. The Hoover TurboPower 6000 S3613 was the 2 year warranted Black with Gold trim series Turbo Power model of the PowerMax in this photo.
This PowerMax also sports the original Hoover brush roll prior to Hoover converting over to a universal brush roll to fit all of their 12" flat belt vacuums at the time. Later they switched to a brush roll with spacing for rug guards found in Elite style uprights. Best of all the machine sports a gorgeous navy blue color which I love navy blues!! |
Post# 269890 , Reply# 5   3/1/2014 at 20:22 (3,680 days old) by Durango159 (State College, PA)   |   | |
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Post# 269902 , Reply# 6   3/1/2014 at 21:15 (3,680 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640)   |   | |
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Post# 269916 , Reply# 7   3/1/2014 at 23:07 (3,680 days old) by veroroger (Vero Beach, Florida)   |   | |
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You can never be poor when you have great friends like you and Rob! |
Post# 269918 , Reply# 8   3/1/2014 at 23:20 (3,680 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640)   |   | |
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Post# 282623 , Reply# 10   5/31/2014 at 23:34 (3,589 days old) by martin187 (Illinois)   |   | |
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What is the model number on it? My girlfriend has one and she wants to know incase of parts. |
Post# 282682 , Reply# 11   6/1/2014 at 19:03 (3,588 days old) by super-sweeper (KSSRC Refurbishment Center)   |   | |
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Post# 282808 , Reply# 12   6/2/2014 at 17:23 (3,587 days old) by martin187 (Illinois)   |   | |
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her son got hold of a sharpie marker and covered it up |
Post# 282884 , Reply# 13   6/3/2014 at 04:51 (3,587 days old) by kirbylux77 (London, Ontario, Canada)   |   | |
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Tell your girlfriend to spray the label with some aerosol hairspray & rub lightly. Hairspray will in most cases remove permanent marker, but it MUST be the aerosol kind!! Hairspray sold in pump bottles will not work! Hopefully if she doesn't rub too hard, there will be enough lettering left to make out the model #.
Rob |
Post# 282902 , Reply# 14   6/3/2014 at 10:17 (3,586 days old) by super-sweeper (KSSRC Refurbishment Center)   |   | |
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Post# 289458 , Reply# 15   7/19/2014 at 04:15 (3,541 days old) by martin187 (Illinois)   |   | |
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could I just have the number? |
Post# 289490 , Reply# 16   7/19/2014 at 18:51 (3,540 days old) by super-sweeper (KSSRC Refurbishment Center)   |   | |
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Post# 289544 , Reply# 18   7/20/2014 at 06:32 (3,540 days old) by beko1987 (Stokenchurch, United Kingdom)   |   | |
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That's packed really well! If you'd have bought that from eBay from a stranger it would have been chucked in an empty box inside a binbag and smashed! Looks lovely! |
Post# 344136 , Reply# 19   2/15/2016 at 13:01 (2,964 days old) by Durango159 (State College, PA)   |   | |
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The model for this particular machine was S3603-040.
PowerMax models had several model numbers: S3601, S3603, S3607, S3613, S3614.... The lasts ones made were the PowerMax Deluxe S3606 in a different shade of navy blue with a translucent bag lid, and the Turbo Power 5000 S3612-- different style design to the previous Turbo Power 5000 which was S3577. BEBO1987-- I couldn't disagree with you more!! Sounds like you found a poor seller on eBay that hopefully you gave a poor feedback response to. I have been a shopper on eBay for over 14 years. I know this because in 2002 when I lived in my fraternity house I bought a refurbished Hoover PowerMax Deluxe canister S3607 from ABCVacuumwarehouse on eBay. I also bought a lawn mower and a commercial duty mop bucket that same year. In my over 14 years of making SEVERAL purchases on eBay to include numerous vacuum cleaners, posters, lawn mower, vacuum bags, hedge trimmer etc. I have only had 1 bad experience. It was a Riccar 1800 canister. It was packaged good for the most part but wasn't in the same condition as was advertised. Paypal backed me up and I got a full refund!! |