Thread Number: 27279
/ Tag: 50s/60s/70s Vacuum Cleaners
Hoover Concept One - Best Upright Hoover Ever Made?? |
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Post# 305793 , Reply# 1   11/11/2014 at 13:13 (3,425 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640)   |   | |
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Post# 305802 , Reply# 2   11/11/2014 at 14:26 (3,425 days old) by Jaker15 (Meridian, ID)   |   | |
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I have a standard Concept One and a Concept One with PowerDrive. I don't really use the standard, it's kinda loud (ridiculously so!) but the PowerDrive model gets used pretty often at my house. It's not very loud, but I think I'm going to replace the transmission belt one of these days. It's sort of sluggish in forward drive. The cord reel works, though! For only paying $3 for the Concept One PowerDrive, and absolutely nothing for the standard, I can't really complain! The PowerDrive is on the left, standard is on the right.
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Post# 305823 , Reply# 4   11/11/2014 at 15:30 (3,425 days old) by Jaker15 (Meridian, ID)   |   | |
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Post# 305831 , Reply# 6   11/11/2014 at 16:49 (3,424 days old) by Caligula (Wallingford, Connecticut)   |   | |
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Post# 305832 , Reply# 7   11/11/2014 at 16:50 (3,424 days old) by Hoover78 (dallas tx)   |   | |
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Found them on eBay... CLICK HERE TO GO TO Hoover78's LINK on eBay |
Post# 305833 , Reply# 8   11/11/2014 at 16:53 (3,424 days old) by Hoover78 (dallas tx)   |   | |
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Post# 305843 , Reply# 9   11/11/2014 at 18:29 (3,424 days old) by Jaker15 (Meridian, ID)   |   | |
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Post# 305848 , Reply# 10   11/11/2014 at 19:14 (3,424 days old) by suckolux (Yuba City, CA)   |   | |
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Post# 305850 , Reply# 11   11/11/2014 at 19:55 (3,424 days old) by Ctvacman (CT)   |   | |
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I did the LED lights too, takes away from the era but they are very bright and make it a touch modern haha. |
Post# 305855 , Reply# 12   11/11/2014 at 21:06 (3,424 days old) by Hoover78 (dallas tx)   |   | |
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That's cool.. Lol why not mix the past with present day.. :-) can't wait to install them in mine.. |
Post# 306072 , Reply# 13   11/13/2014 at 16:00 (3,423 days old) by super-sweeper (KSSRC Refurbishment Center)   |   | |
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Post# 306079 , Reply# 14   11/13/2014 at 16:57 (3,422 days old) by Oreck_XL (Brooklyn, New York 11211)   |   | |
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I would have to give the nod to the Dial-A-Matic. Although it did have some flaws, the clean air design and ease of tool use put it ahead of the Concept. Plus, Hoover's switch to a plastic base with the Concept made it look well, cheap. I know the Concept has a loyal share of followers, but Hoover's reversion to a "dirty-air" design was a classic display of two steps forward, three steps backward. Who knows what a great cleaner Hoover could've had if they produced a Dial-A-Matic II! Sadly, they sold out the clean air patents to Panasonic and the Jet-Flo had to pick up with the DAM left off...
- Hershel |
Post# 306143 , Reply# 15   11/14/2014 at 08:38 (3,422 days old) by Hoover78 (dallas tx)   |   | |
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A "dirty air" fan first vac will always out clean a "clean-air" vacuum because it has greater airflow, plus the concept had better agitation with the new quadraflex agitator. Just sayin... :-) |
Post# 306159 , Reply# 16   11/14/2014 at 12:49 (3,422 days old) by ultralux88 (Denver, Colorado)   |   | |
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U have a blue U3101 as well, its definitely one of the best cleaning machines Hoover ever made, as they clean very very well, and going by what I've seen they held up well too. But In my eyes I wouldn't say its the overall best. To me the best that Hoover ever made is the 150. I think it represents the peak of quality and design. It was built simply to be the very best machine that they could reasonably build, back before price came before quality and durability, as well as style and design. Although the machines that followed soon after were excellent as well, the 60-63 style machines were great too, those years were the height of Hoover to me, the peak in their mountain, from there, once they let all their salesmen go and started just selling them off of the shelves in the store was when Hoover began a slow decent to what the product is today. Not to say new Hoovers aren't any good, just compare a Windtunnel T Series to a 150, or a 913, or 62 and you'll easily see what I'm talking about.
All that being said, I would say that my U3101 was the first truly excellent deep cleaning vacuum I had, and I used that machine as my daily vac until I got my Rainbow D4. |
Post# 312857 , Reply# 18   1/21/2015 at 20:13 (3,353 days old) by hoover61 (baltimore maryland USA)   |   | |
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the concept one MAY have been tbe BEST hoover made but the MODEL 61 WAS THE FINEST HOOVER EVER MADE READ THE ADVERTISEMENT if you don't believe me |
Post# 312862 , Reply# 19   1/21/2015 at 20:54 (3,353 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640)   |   | |
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It is true: that 61 IS near perfection. Any that are still "out there" and have been maintained will operate like day ONE.
The 150......... way ahead of it's time. Then, there's the Convertible...... you just can't go wrong. The Dial A Matic is great, too....... a bit flawed. CAN you imagine a D A M II? I never thought of that before, but.... |