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Post# 194027 8/9/2012 at 13:26 (4,276 days old) by beko1987 (Stokenchurch, United Kingdom)
Checkrate/Likes This came up on freecycle earlier, and within 5 minutes it was mine. Added 8 miles onto my way home from work and picked it up. Came with a box of un-used tools, and was missing a rear wheel. A quick steal from my parts turbopower and it was mobile again. I used it initially, but the belt was more than gone, so I put a new genuine belt on, and it was good as new again. I will fully strip it down, restore and service it, then add it to my collection. Here she is in Ramsay Slate. picasaweb.google.com/10061310453... Video of before the belt change When the video of after the belt change uploads, I will post it up. Or just keep an eye on my channel. Cheers Sam CLICK HERE TO GO TO beko1987's LINK

Post# 262104 , Reply# 1 1/6/2014 at 12:11 (3,761 days old) by beko1987 (Stokenchurch, United Kingdom)
Checkrate/Likes *Back from the dead - nearly* Well... She sat at my mums for ages, then at the flat for ages, then I stripped it down. I then got lots of dysons in for refurb jobs, and the Hoover 262, and the Aquatronic, all of which went first. It ended up sitting around dismantled for weeks, then I washed it all and it sat some more. Then we got rats and moved out, I gathered it all up and boxed it up quickly. It went into my mums loft. I got it out today, as I'm very bored with nothing to do. Don't want to carry the Aquatronic on, as A half of it is 30 miles away in my sister in laws loft, secondly I want it to be my first project in hopefully a nice shed/garage of my own, set up as a workshop. Anyway, one of the reasons this poor old girl lingered was I managed to snap both coil wires off the spade terminals. No idea how, and my spare coil was from a different mode, so this pretty much mothballed it. So, some (now historic) stripdown pictures. I thought there were more, but I;ve been through 2 phones in that time (HTC One, broke the screen on that, Xperia U whilst that got fixed (with many different roms on it) and now back to my fixed HTC) From Turbopower Plus U1294 From Turbopower Plus U1294 From Turbopower Plus U1294 Very odd to see a beige internal cable, normally always black From Turbopower Plus U1294 This is the other reason I;ve neveer really used it, it billows out dust constantly From Turbopower Plus U1294 From Turbopower Plus U1294 From Turbopower Plus U1294 A very dead and possibly 24 years old air freshener From Turbopower Plus U1294 From Turbopower Plus U1294 From Turbopower Plus U1294 From Turbopower Plus U1294 From Turbopower Plus U1294 From Turbopower Plus U1294 And that's the end of the histroic stuff Tonight... From Turbopower Plus U1294 From Turbopower Plus U1294 From Turbopower Plus U1294 From Turbopower Plus U1294 Undid one coil of each wire and wrapped it around the appropriate side ready for repair. From Turbopower Plus U1294 I then got the hood out and the machine polisher. From Turbopower Plus U1294 That's some sort of paint, that no solvent would shift. I did scrape the worst off, but started hitting the plastic so stopped However 10 minutes with this From Turbopower Plus U1294 and From Turbopower Plus U1294 Same on the other side From Turbopower Plus U1294 I switched to a softer blue pad and some softer, more filling polish and gave the whole hood a spruce up, beign VERY careful of the writing From Turbopower Plus U1294 I then waxed it, to protect the finish From Turbopower Plus U1294 From Turbopower Plus U1294 From Turbopower Plus U1294 That's it for now, need the motor fixing as that's the first thing to go back in. Will update when more work is done!

Post# 262106 , Reply# 2 1/6/2014 at 12:50 (3,761 days old) by Ultimatevacman ( Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK)
Checkrate/Likes Looks good Sam!

Post# 262107 , Reply# 3 1/6/2014 at 13:05 (3,761 days old) by Turbo500 (West Yorkshire, UK)
Checkrate/Likes One of my favourites :). Our neighbours had one when I was little

Post# 262376 , Reply# 4 1/8/2014 at 04:29 (3,760 days old) by matt8808 (Teesside - North East - UK)
Checkrate/Likes Ahhhh my nanna and granddad used to have one of these when they owned their shop. Probably not that exact model but they had one very similar for the shop along with a Turbomaster Freedom for their home. The machine they had in the shop was the same colour, and I think the bag pattern was the same, but I can't remember it being the 'plus' and I can't remember it having the bag freshener setup either.... come to think of it I'm not sure if it had a headlight too? God only knows... my memory isn't that good haha I know they sold the shop in 1991 and the machine will of been a good few years old then

Post# 262388 , Reply# 5 1/8/2014 at 08:00 (3,759 days old) by Turbo500 (West Yorkshire, UK)
Checkrate/Likes *they sold the shop in 1991* These first appeared in 1989 as part of the 3rd generation Turbopower's. Prior to this, the other TP junior cleaner were the U1100 in beigh, the U1220 in black (both with no headlight), the U1222 Electricity Board exclusive in grey with a headlight and the U1102 Electricity Board exclusive in cream and brown with a headlight.

Post# 262391 , Reply# 6 1/8/2014 at 08:06 (3,759 days old) by Turbo500 (West Yorkshire, UK)
Checkrate/Likes Matt, just dug this one out for you. There's loads of Turbopower info with pics here - this might help identify your Nan's shop vacuum. CLICK HERE TO GO TO Turbo500's LINK

Post# 262428 , Reply# 7 1/8/2014 at 13:19 (3,759 days old) by matt8808 (Teesside - North East - UK)
Checkrate/Likes Thanks for that Chris! I think they must of had the U1100

Post# 263021 , Reply# 8 1/12/2014 at 14:51 (3,755 days old) by beko1987 (Stokenchurch, United Kingdom)
Checkrate/Likes *All done!* Spent a lovely evening in the garage listening to the rain tonight! My stepdad very kindly soldered the terminals back on From Turbopower Plus U1294 From Turbopower Plus U1294 and we were back on. I rummaged through the parts I'd packed away ages ago and started re-assembly From Turbopower Plus U1294 From Turbopower Plus U1294 From Turbopower Plus U1294 Quick check to make sure it worked Yeey! From Turbopower Plus U1294 From Turbopower Plus U1294 From Turbopower Plus U1294 From Turbopower Plus U1294 From Turbopower Plus U1294 From Turbopower Plus U1294 From Turbopower Plus U1294 I did leave this off though From Turbopower Plus U1294 Soon, due to lack of space this machine will be packed away in a nice box. This part is a pain to get on and off at the best of times, and I don't want to do it any more than needed. One day when they can be assembled for good I'll refit it. Until then it's safe on a shelf From Turbopower Plus U1294 Done! From Turbopower Plus U1294 Need to find my box of Hoover Spares in the loft and put a new air freshener in. Could also do with a properbelt, as it has a bojack but new one on at the moment that I found in the garage. Suctions nice and strong now Will give it a proper run tomorrow during the day indoors.

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