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Re: Hoover Sensotronic S3128 System 2 - A Rambling Refurb!
« Reply #15 on: September 02, 2017, 10:27:41 pm »
And cleaned all the remains of the foam from under the lid

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Finally, time for an exploded diagram shot!

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And that's it for now, the next step is re-assembly, and that's where it goes a bit wrong (there was an explosion and everything, my youtube followers should remember that!)
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Re: Hoover Sensotronic S3128 System 2 - A Rambling Refurb!
« Reply #16 on: September 18, 2017, 09:49:07 pm »
Right, let's see if we can finish this off tonight!

Motor together first

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Tadah!

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Then I put the casing back together, which no longer made my hands black

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You can see 30 years of wheel movement here!

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2 plastic rollers back in

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And the wheel screws down, and the wheel itself can be fitted with a smear of grease on the axle as it squeaked a bit before

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I fitted the front handle compartment

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and then fitted some nice new foam to the bag holder!

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The spring for the bag latch

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Re: Hoover Sensotronic S3128 System 2 - A Rambling Refurb!
« Reply #17 on: September 18, 2017, 09:57:26 pm »
Then the latch itself!

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All fitted, just some foam to put on the inside edge, but it had not arrived by this point I don't think!

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On the outside, the big rubber seal/cap that bridges the gap betwixt inner and outer piece

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However, for now, I can't fit anymore that end. So it's onto the back, and the rear grille went on

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I popped the front parts back together so I didn't loose them

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Cord rewind brake now

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And clipped it onto the cable exit part

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Re: Hoover Sensotronic S3128 System 2 - A Rambling Refurb!
« Reply #18 on: September 18, 2017, 10:23:23 pm »
Found a cracking date wheel

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Firewall now, and the rubber fancase seal goes on

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PCB is fitted

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And then the first disaster happened. I snapped the reed switch whilst trying to feed it through the casing...

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So I bought some, which were much much smaller than the originals and soldered one in and taped it down

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The magnet was fitted to the other side

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Then the rear of the pre motor filter housing was screwed in

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The firewall can be refitted now

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And it's cover screwed on, which would have been easier before I fitted it, but fitted fine anyway!

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Re: Hoover Sensotronic S3128 System 2 - A Rambling Refurb!
« Reply #19 on: September 18, 2017, 10:32:42 pm »
Next, the motor gets dropped in

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and the annoying earth wire gets connected

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and the motor screwed down

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Quick flip underneath and the thermal cut out can be fitted

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Then, I can unscrew this

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Remove this

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and wire up the power nozzle socket!

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The live terminals are hooked up

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Supressor refitted for now (and I really wish I had just left it the hell alone!)

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Re: Hoover Sensotronic S3128 System 2 - A Rambling Refurb!
« Reply #20 on: September 18, 2017, 10:45:49 pm »
Next, it's time to snip the cable tie stopping the cord rewind from undoing itself

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and fit it!

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Fit the dividing wall/cord reel holder/cable guide

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Fit the plug

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Attempt to tidy the wiring

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Then, put the furniture guards together and fit them to the cleaner

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Then, I needed to find a post motor filter/diffuser, since the original one disintegrated as they all do! A quick raid of the shed, and Miele to the rescue!

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Perfick!

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Can put the bottom cover on now!

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Re: Hoover Sensotronic S3128 System 2 - A Rambling Refurb!
« Reply #21 on: September 18, 2017, 11:01:15 pm »
And the rear wheels

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Getting there!

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We also need a pre motor filter! Uncle Miele to the rescue again

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Next, time to assemble the switch housing. At this current moment in time, the Power Adjustment switch cover had gone awol, so I imagined it was there for now

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Wired everything up

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Stuck the pretty bits down

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And fitted that to the lid

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Wired it all back up as it was

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Re: Hoover Sensotronic S3128 System 2 - A Rambling Refurb!
« Reply #22 on: September 18, 2017, 11:20:25 pm »
I then carefully fitted the broken trim and pedals back on

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I did try to glue this corner down, but it didn't take, and I didn't want to wob glue everywhere!

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Plugged it all back in

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And screwed it down

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Popped the tools back in

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Lid on

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And it's done*



Time to pop the floor tool back together

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Re: Hoover Sensotronic S3128 System 2 - A Rambling Refurb!
« Reply #23 on: September 18, 2017, 11:41:34 pm »
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Much better!

Hose next, and the handle goes back together

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I then spent an evening infront of my tablet on the 26th Febuary 2017 watching our local kebab van win the best kebab van in England award at the kebab oscars! (and yes it's bloody amazing! Utterly manic on a busy night though http://www.britishkebabawards.co.uk/the_delicious_taste_of_success_celebrations_as_thame_kebab_van_scoops_award)
and cleaned the hose by hand, as I couldnt get the ends off to put it in the machine

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That, really, was done! However, it goes downhill here...

I cut the supressor out and soldered the wires together... this made it blow the fuse... Because I did not think ahead and leave plenty of wire on the supressor, soldering it back in was a right pain, but just about do-able. Then I broke the new reed switch I fitted:


Then I attempted to replace the broken LED bulb... which went well
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Getting thoroughly pissed off with it now, it was working again.

Finally, I bought some roam adhesive strip from ebay to replace the factory stuff I removed the remains of at the beginning

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Which looked really smart

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However, it was too thick. And upon fitting the top cover, it managed to push a wire off the PCB, causing it to go into limp home mode (half power, lights on all the time). So I stripped it all off and fixed that


But, in putting it all back together finally, I dropped the motor, and snapped a wire off the capacitor again! And my previous solder joint came with it, so it was game over... So I put it in the loft and forgot about the hateful thing.

Until a few months later, a collector I know came round for a machine swapping session. And I gave him the sensotronic, as I wanted to sell it once this was done, but now could not. The jammy sod opened it up, and snipped the black link wire within the main loom, which caused it to work fine! That must have been why it blew the fuse before!

TBH by this point I did not care, especially after he gave me something in return, a very rare machine in the UK, and one that I love very much. I haven't shown it on here before, and it'll be a while before it gets a refurb as I'm waiting for some parts from the US!

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So that is that! Not my usual refurb thread, but followable for anyone who does want to look inside a sensotronic! Normal service will be resumed thread-wise soon, I promise!
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