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Thread Number: 14748
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| Post# 156338 10/22/2011 at 07:33 (4,563 days old) by hotpoint95622 (Powys, UK) | ||
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| Post# 156339 , Reply# 1 10/22/2011 at 07:34 (4,563 days old) by hotpoint95622 (Powys, UK) | ||
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| Post# 156340 , Reply# 2 10/22/2011 at 07:36 (4,563 days old) by hotpoint95622 (Powys, UK) | ||
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| Post# 156341 , Reply# 3 10/22/2011 at 07:42 (4,563 days old) by hotpoint95622 (Powys, UK) | ||
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What a bar-steward to dismantle, the older units are much easer to work on, the earlier fan covers where held on with bolts and would just fall apart when the bolts are removed, not on this one, the top cover and inner turbine cover are friction pressed together, what a nightmare to remove, I had to prize the two apart with a chisel and some very bad temper.
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| Post# 156342 , Reply# 4 10/22/2011 at 07:43 (4,563 days old) by hotpoint95622 (Powys, UK) | ||
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| Post# 156355 , Reply# 16 10/22/2011 at 07:58 (4,563 days old) by hotpoint95622 (Powys, UK) | ||
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| Post# 156356 , Reply# 17 10/22/2011 at 07:59 (4,563 days old) by hotpoint95622 (Powys, UK) | ||
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| Post# 156360 , Reply# 21 10/22/2011 at 08:03 (4,563 days old) by hotpoint95622 (Powys, UK) | ||
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| Post# 156362 , Reply# 23 10/22/2011 at 08:08 (4,563 days old) by SuctionSelector (Leeds, England) | ||
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| Post# 156363 , Reply# 24 10/22/2011 at 08:15 (4,563 days old) by hotpoint95622 (Powys, UK) | ||
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| Post# 156417 , Reply# 26 10/22/2011 at 12:59 (4,562 days old) by fan-of-fans (USA) | ||
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| Post# 156433 , Reply# 28 10/22/2011 at 16:10 (4,562 days old) by appliancelou () | ||
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lee,s love job hi lee another beautiful job well done!! I know alot time an energy but saved another piece of history keep them coming enjoy seeing them restored lou | ||
| Post# 156443 , Reply# 29 10/22/2011 at 17:09 (4,562 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield & London) | ||
Plugs
Hoover were exceptional in that, for a great many years they supplied moulded on two pin plug on all their machines in the UK - these would be colour matched to the flex (cord), so that by the end there were two colours of blue and pink plugs. Normally these were 2 pin 5 amp although I know one collector has a two pin 15amp Hoover plug - these would be exceptionally rare - 15 amp plugs were usually grounded so as to accomodate metal bodied appliances with a high current draw like washing machines and room heaters. The 5amp plugs would also have been supplied with a baynot adaptor so they could be plugged into a light fitting.
It seems like these moulded plugs were deopped around 1962 with the introduction of the grey Senior (convertable) Junior & Constellation - I have never seen a grey moulded plug - i do know they were still being fitted in 1961. Not a surprise (and indeed I am surprised they were not dropped many years earlier) as by that time 5amp two plugs were no longer common - and 15amp (round pin) were fast on the way out. So, like every other appliance, they were supplied with no plug and the purchaser (or the shop selling if the customer would pay extra) would fit the plug themselves - often in a very poor (not to mention dangerous) manner Al | ||
| Post# 156458 , Reply# 30 10/22/2011 at 17:35 (4,562 days old) by twocvbloke () | ||
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"often in a very poor (not to mention dangerous) manner& That's known as "Darwin's Law", get it wrong and you find out the hard way... :P I've got a 2-pin to Bayonet adaptor somewhere (not Hoover), aswell as a few bayonet plugs too, I like old plugs me... :D | ||
| Post# 156527 , Reply# 31 10/23/2011 at 07:16 (4,562 days old) by hotpoint95622 (Powys, UK) | ||
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Post# 156687 , Reply# 32 10/23/2011 at 23:20 (4,561 days old) by gottahaveahoove  (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640) |
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