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Thread Number: 45275
/ Tag: Pre-1950 Vacuum Cleaners
Extremely Old Hoover, searching for details. |
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Post# 468951 , Reply# 3 1/25/2024 at 10:22 by gottahaveahoove  (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640) |
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excellent find!!! | ||
| Post# 468975 , Reply# 6 1/25/2024 at 20:29 by huskyvacs (Gnaw Bone, Indiana) | ||
 I am not sure how complete they are but I do remember in this website's archives there is someone that had the Hoover serial numbers and had the original production sheets, but I don't recall where in when they were posted, it was a long time ago I know that much. The patents on the model tag do not go past 1910, so this has to be rather early. Maye not much later after the Hover Model 0? I know power cords with the screw in lamp sockets are before Hubbell invented the blade type power cords in 1912. This is also why those old socket-to-NEMA adapters were invented as a way of "retrofitting" baseboard sockets to the new plug type. The conversion of the vacuum to a straight suction sweeper is definitely a Great Depression era modification, I am sure there was no parts available or no money to fix it so they just cobbled up a modification to make it work.
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| Post# 468982 , Reply# 8 1/26/2024 at 03:30 by huskyvacs (Gnaw Bone, Indiana) | ||
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Oh wow what on earth did they do to that poor cleaner lol I wondered what the weird screws drilled through the top of the casing were for, now I see what it goes to. That is a wheel they added to keep the brush bar off the floor so they could actually push the vacuum easier, it looks like the roller you would see in those old fashioned rope and pulley sash windows. There is no way to connect a belt without the original brushroll in there. You can turn the motor on as it is, but it might sound funny with no load on it and I wouldn't run it for too long, as it would likely overheat without any brushroll and belt to slow it down. I think people have gotten these running on old Eureka or Hoover convertible round belts but I am not 100% sure on the exact sizing, but again without a brushroll not much can be done. Parts would be pretty hard to get if you wanted to do a museum restoration on it, unless by some miracle someone has spares sitting around for a century old Hoover (you never know). I'd probably leave it as it is and use it with its primitive modifications as a niche piece of Americana and history of the time period. | ||
| Post# 468994 , Reply# 9 1/26/2024 at 16:08 by vacuumman (California) | ||
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Brush Based on what I can see, it appears like the weird pulley system sweeps the brush back and forth like a broom. I'm not sure if this is OEM or just someone messing around, though. | ||
| Post# 469088 , Reply# 10 1/30/2024 at 09:26 by Dysonman1 (the county) | ||
It was called the "old style special". The word "special" was used to describe the household size Hoover and not the large commercial nor the small apartment size. The rotating brush used in this model was not round, but flat and twisted kind of like a vg1. Stan Kann gave me his many years ago.
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| Post# 469138 , Reply# 11 1/31/2024 at 16:25 by huskyvacs (Gnaw Bone, Indiana) | ||
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| Post# 469262 , Reply# 14 2/4/2024 at 23:07 by bikerray (Middle Earth) | ||
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