Telling the Twins Apart

I've been at my parents' a lot this summer, helping them go through stuff in preparation for moving and I've had my eye on a Hoover S2015 QuikBroom sweeper sitting in the corner of the garage. This past weekend, enough stuff had finally been cleared out that I actually could get my hands on it and throw it in the car. Once I got it home, it was interesting to compare it with its twin that I had acquired from Dan Headrick earlier this year.

Both machines have the same medium blue and white color scheme but there are some minor cosmetic differences, most noticeable of which is the nozzle, which is blue with a white Hoover logo on the one from Dan and white with a black logo on the one from my parents. Also, the switch on the one from Dan is black while the one from my parents is red. The style and location of the 'ratings' information is also different. On the one from Dan, the information is embossed into the top of the motor housing, while the one from my parents has the information printed on a decal affixed to the back of the motor housing. The top is devoid of any markings. The one from Dan also has a small decal, warning of electrical shock risk, in the same spot as the ratings decal on the one from my parents. Perhaps most interesting of all is the one from Dan seems to lack a serial number or at least I have yet to find it. The ratings sticker on the one from my parents includes the serial number.

I have no way to tell which of the machines is older but I'm assuming the one from Dan is the older of the two, simply because of the ratings information embossed on the top of the motor housing. By moving that to a decal eliminates one small step in the manufacturing process, since it replaces another smaller one on the machine from Dan. It's the sort of process simplification one would expect as a product line matures.


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Post# 356401 7/21/2016 at 16:14 (2,828 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina)
Checkrate/Likes 1 I've been at my parents' a lot this summer, helping them go through stuff in preparation for moving and I've had my eye on a Hoover S2015 QuikBroom sweeper sitting in the corner of the garage. This past weekend, enough stuff had finally been cleared out that I actually could get my hands on it and throw it in the car. Once I got it home, it was interesting to compare it with its twin that I had acquired from Dan Headrick earlier this year. Both machines have the same medium blue and white color scheme but there are some minor cosmetic differences, most noticeable of which is the nozzle, which is blue with a white Hoover logo on the one from Dan and white with a black logo on the one from my parents. Also, the switch on the one from Dan is black while the one from my parents is red. The style and location of the 'ratings' information is also different. On the one from Dan, the information is embossed into the top of the motor housing, while the one from my parents has the information printed on a decal affixed to the back of the motor housing. The top is devoid of any markings. The one from Dan also has a small decal, warning of electrical shock risk, in the same spot as the ratings decal on the one from my parents. Perhaps most interesting of all is the one from Dan seems to lack a serial number or at least I have yet to find it. The ratings sticker on the one from my parents includes the serial number. I have no way to tell which of the machines is older but I'm assuming the one from Dan is the older of the two, simply because of the ratings information embossed on the top of the motor housing. By moving that to a decal eliminates one small step in the manufacturing process, since it replaces another smaller one on the machine from Dan. It's the sort of process simplification one would expect as a product line matures.