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| Post# 76717 7/28/2009 at 23:03 (5,384 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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| Post# 76718 , Reply# 1 7/28/2009 at 23:03 (5,384 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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| Post# 76719 , Reply# 2 7/28/2009 at 23:09 (5,384 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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I scream, you scream, we all scream for vacuum cleaners. | ||
| Post# 76720 , Reply# 3 7/28/2009 at 23:13 (5,384 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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| Post# 76721 , Reply# 4 7/28/2009 at 23:13 (5,384 days old) by extraditgitzz () | ||
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Dave...... Plain and simple, you like most Canadians, are my hero. Wished I lived in Canada where the coolness is. | ||
| Post# 76726 , Reply# 5 7/28/2009 at 23:30 (5,384 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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It's a 1970s Hoover Celebrity Custom model S3007 on wheels with three push button suction levels obtained by the mechanical cam action of sliding gates closing louvers in sequence. That hose handle switch is a pneumatic on/off switch! A brown 1/8" diameter rubber tube runs down the hose along the spine. At the vacuum hose inlet a gasket connects the air line to another brown tube that runs around the rim, over and through the hinge and then down to the control panel where another pneumatic acts upon the microswitch piston like a ball point pen rachet. The vacuum can also be turned on/off on the control panel with a spring loaded sliding switch. I know all this because I took the sucker all apart tonight to find out why it wouldn't work - nothing more than a crushed air line. Now it works. What a hoot. Man, those Hoover engineers were fairly bursting with clever Rube Goldberg ideas. The 89 was $5 and the Celebrity was $10 at the Bibles For Missions Thrift Store in Waterloo. 
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| Post# 76728 , Reply# 6 7/28/2009 at 23:37 (5,384 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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Of course it works!
I did not know such a Celebrity animal existed. I'm totally entranced with the engineering of this pneumatic switchgear. The inlet rubber gasket with control hole and you can see the brown air line exiting to the left entering the rim flange. The hose turns and locks in position, mating the control air lines. 
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| Post# 76729 , Reply# 7 7/28/2009 at 23:40 (5,384 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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| Post# 76730 , Reply# 8 7/28/2009 at 23:45 (5,384 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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Here's where the tube got crushed flat between the tool holder molding and metal lid, perhaps during an ill-informed service call...or at the factory? I suspect the former as there are clear molded channels to route the electric cord with the air line beside it without getting fouled during assembly. 
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| Post# 76731 , Reply# 9 7/28/2009 at 23:48 (5,384 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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| Post# 76732 , Reply# 10 7/28/2009 at 23:53 (5,384 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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| Post# 76733 , Reply# 11 7/28/2009 at 23:56 (5,384 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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When mere electrical hose wiring, two pin pigtails and a tog | ||
| Post# 76734 , Reply# 12 7/28/2009 at 23:57 (5,384 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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| Post# 76735 , Reply# 13 7/28/2009 at 23:59 (5,384 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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| Post# 76741 , Reply# 16 7/29/2009 at 00:19 (5,384 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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I love this thing. Except for its dull brown paint scheme.
I know I'm lucky to find one in such well cared for condition. For all its complexity, Fred, I think it is very well designed throughout with thick wall air lines, brass tube elbows, rubber nipple gaskets to connect inside the hose coupling handle and socket fittings, and a thick hard rubber one piece inlet tube that the bag fits on and the hose presses in to when it's locked. The only problem I can see, and fixed, is during re-assembly to make sure the air line doesn't get crushed. The mechanical gate suction control is clever, too But really, one must ask, why bother? But at least it doesn't rely on circuit boards and relays...:-) Similar in concept to the ELNA Air Control sewing machine except the Elna foot puck controls a motor speed rheostat. | ||
| Post# 76749 , Reply# 17 7/29/2009 at 02:46 (5,384 days old) by hygiene903 (Galion, OH) | ||
Great Finds, Dave!! | ||
Post# 76752 , Reply# 18 7/29/2009 at 09:14 (5,384 days old) by arh1953  ( River Park, in Port St. Lucie, Florida) |
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| Post# 76765 , Reply# 19 7/29/2009 at 15:05 (5,384 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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| Post# 76768 , Reply# 20 7/29/2009 at 15:14 (5,383 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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| Post# 76769 , Reply# 21 7/29/2009 at 15:22 (5,383 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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Power Pulse Remote Control at your fingertips! | ||
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