|
Thread Number: 6432
Hoover Turboopwer U1296 New In Box |
[Down to Last] |  |
| Post# 71441 6/7/2009 at 05:25 (5,437 days old) by turbomaster1984 (Ripley, Derbyshire) | ||
Had the immense pleasure of picking this beauty up yesterday after the previous owner had stored it away for her sister for years and it only had been taken out the box to appear in a photo for ebay! Still has the 2 empty brande new bags that it left the factory with and all original literature and sealed air freshener. This model was one of 2 sold at the time, U1294 which was sold without the tool kit as normal to othet Turbopowers, the toolkit was an optional extra bought if you required them. This U1296 comes with tools as standard, quite why they did we cant really define an exact answer but a multitude of maybe's. I imagine at that point Hoover knew money could be made on this style of vac as it was still popular amongst budget buyers and those who wanted something light and simple but sales of optional tool kits dwindled due to those with the money who wanted tools went for models with built in tools. By adding the optional tools as a feature and charging a slightly less overall price than buying the 2 together would help total sales and provide an added value product to the customer. Styled in Ramsey Slate and Deep Ramsey Slate, 440w. Myself assembling it properly for the first time, Manufactured August 1989 
| ||
| Post# 71442 , Reply# 1 6/7/2009 at 05:26 (5,437 days old) by turbomaster1984 (Ripley, Derbyshire) | ||
|
| ||
| Post# 71443 , Reply# 2 6/7/2009 at 05:27 (5,437 days old) by turbomaster1984 (Ripley, Derbyshire) | ||
|
| ||
| Post# 71444 , Reply# 3 6/7/2009 at 05:28 (5,437 days old) by turbomaster1984 (Ripley, Derbyshire) | ||
|
| ||
| Post# 71445 , Reply# 4 6/7/2009 at 05:29 (5,437 days old) by turbomaster1984 (Ripley, Derbyshire) | ||
|
| ||
| Post# 71446 , Reply# 5 6/7/2009 at 05:30 (5,437 days old) by turbomaster1984 (Ripley, Derbyshire) | ||
|
| ||
| Post# 71447 , Reply# 6 6/7/2009 at 05:30 (5,437 days old) by turbomaster1984 (Ripley, Derbyshire) | ||
|
| ||
| Post# 71448 , Reply# 7 6/7/2009 at 05:32 (5,437 days old) by turbomaster1984 (Ripley, Derbyshire) | ||
|
| ||
| Post# 71449 , Reply# 8 6/7/2009 at 05:32 (5,437 days old) by turbomaster1984 (Ripley, Derbyshire) | ||
|
| ||
| Post# 71450 , Reply# 9 6/7/2009 at 05:38 (5,437 days old) by turbomaster1984 (Ripley, Derbyshire) | ||
|
| ||
| Post# 71451 , Reply# 10 6/7/2009 at 05:40 (5,437 days old) by turbomaster1984 (Ripley, Derbyshire) | ||
|
| ||
| Post# 71458 , Reply# 11 6/7/2009 at 08:08 (5,437 days old) by kenmore81 (Warwick, RI) | ||
very cool | ||
| Post# 71489 , Reply# 12 6/7/2009 at 14:26 (5,437 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
Tool Port? | ||
| Post# 71499 , Reply# 13 6/7/2009 at 15:00 (5,437 days old) by rolls_rapide (-) | ||
|
Tools... ..attach via a pan converter. | ||
| Post# 71500 , Reply# 14 6/7/2009 at 15:09 (5,437 days old) by sireluxomatic () | ||
|
I like the royal warrant on this...gives it an extra veneer of respectability (not of course that it didn't have any in the first place). | ||
| Post# 71502 , Reply# 15 6/7/2009 at 15:24 (5,437 days old) by rolls_rapide (-) | ||
|
Royal Warrant I know what you mean: not only elegance, but a sense of breeding. LOL | ||
| Post# 71536 , Reply# 16 6/7/2009 at 19:12 (5,436 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
|
Thanks Calum..... | ||
| Post# 71543 , Reply# 17 6/7/2009 at 21:10 (5,436 days old) by vibragroomer () | ||
|
air path It looks like the air path is very near the center rather than being offset to the side. Good design! | ||
| Post# 71582 , Reply# 19 6/8/2009 at 07:57 (5,436 days old) by kenmore81 (Warwick, RI) | ||
|
Yes
We also have a soft bag design Innovation. The on right in Paul's picture was the more common mode Innovation here,or at least in my neck of the wood lol. But even the soft bag model we had,the bag was on the front Like your Turbomaster. The bottom of the Turbo Power Plus is what I was refering to when I said it looked like our Innovation. Sorry for the confusion lol. I dont remeber the US Sovereign model. It must have been really short lived. Either way I love the line-up. Cheers! | ||
| Post# 71583 , Reply# 20 6/8/2009 at 08:00 (5,436 days old) by kenmore81 (Warwick, RI) | ||
|
Airpath | ||
| Post# 71606 , Reply# 21 6/8/2009 at 13:00 (5,436 days old) by watsonw (Newport, Shropshire, UK) | ||
|
Paul, Great find, I remember them when new, good machines, lucky find. The 'Turbo' range was such a deviation for Hoover in the early 80's !! Regards, Walter. | ||
| Post# 71641 , Reply# 22 6/8/2009 at 15:40 (5,436 days old) by turbomaster1984 (Ripley, Derbyshire) | ||
|
Sorry guys, yes the Tool Converter pan is missing in this shoot - the seller forgot to include it but has since contacted me and will send it on. Suction is not that great but markably better than the Senior/Convertible's power, yet it does amuse me that back in the day I used to see so many people clean their cars which IIRC took most folk bloody ages to do lol. I remember one neighbour who had the 1st series blue Autoflex along with 2 moulting pooches regularly using the vac to clean out their Ford then homing in with the duck taped hands to remove the dog hairs from the back seats. Ironically though I do think the agitator style was Hoovers best, personal opinion I know but comparing grit removal between test periods where I use a cylinder cleaner alone for a few weeks between switching beater bars and the notched agi's the Activator comes out best. Vibragroomer The bellows you can see dont relate to where the dirt is channelled. on the photo of the underneath the dirt passes thru the channel to the far right of the brushroll. Up the channel and left into the fan casing where it then proceeds central into the bellows and up the fill tube into the bag. Will have a look for a photo where we have the cover off to show you underneath. signing off, Robert - Turbomaster1984 Paul my partner is Turbopowerpaul lol, wish I was half as good looking as him but we do get confused based purely on good looks lol. Ducks and Runs | ||
| Post# 71643 , Reply# 23 6/8/2009 at 15:48 (5,436 days old) by turbomaster1984 (Ripley, Derbyshire) | ||
|
| ||
| Forum Index: | 
| Other Forums: |
|
|
|
|
|
Comes to the Rescue!
