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Other Vacuum Cleaners & Site Suggestions => Hoover Vacuum Cleaners => Topic started by: beko1987 on October 29, 2020, 02:53:13 pm
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This came my way a fair while ago now, with a brief to make one good one out of 2 if possible. It might be possible...
1 and 3/4 of a Hoover Senior
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One with decent original paint, one already re-painted
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We have a 652a from 1970
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And a 6525c from 1972
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I started with the complete one
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Bag off
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Not too ancient paper bag fitted
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Bag holder is in good order
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The bag bolt was removed
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Don't think this has been cleaned recently!
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Took the flange off the bellows
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And noticed the nice original fluted flex fitted
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As we remove the handle bolt
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Luckily we don't need to care about these handles as Stuart had the good set powdercoated I think, so these are just so I can use it
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We need these bits though
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Bottom handle retaining plate and bolt
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This handle has seen some use
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Under the handle are 2 screws that hold the little plate on
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Which has been smashed about before
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Then a cord clamp
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Which pulled out of the handle bail casting then could be removed from the cord
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Can get into tearing this down now!
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Baseplate off first
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The belt was a genuine old Hoover one
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Time to get the Agitator stripped! One end cap came off
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And I could tap the axle through
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And strip each end down
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These were scrap
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Brush strips slide out now
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Brushroll done, it's time to get back to the machine
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The tool entry port was in good condition, with it's original paint
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Rear wheels now. Circlip off on one side
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And one wheel washer and clip comes off
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Then the circlip that sits behind the wheel can come off
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Other wheel was oddly far far dirtier...
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Wiring now!
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Cover plate off
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Which was hiding some grot
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2nd switch cover now
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They are a pretty switch
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Under the switch box looks like it's been underwater once
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Power switch now
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Heavily used
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We can take the hood off now
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And begin to get properly dirty...
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Hood retaining brackets off
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Then I found the headlight bulb and laughed
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Worked well, can't fault it that!
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Time to get the handle bail off, starting with the first circlip
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The height adjuster bar falls off now
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Then the height adjuster pedal slides off
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This is a holder for the flex as it comes down
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Moving to the other side, the recline pedal comes off with one screw
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With that off, and all circlips removed, the whole bail bar taps out of the handle bail, finally releasing the bag flange lock and spring
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And the handle bail is also free
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We start by removing the wiring block cover
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and finally get rid of the mains cable, which has been looked at before
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The flex itself can be pulled out of the external protector
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First 2 wires off are for the switch
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Then the resistor for the headlight wires
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A wire clamp needs loosening
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And all of this can be withdrawn
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An screw here
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removes the wiring connector
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Then, the motor can be unscrewed from the chassis. Nice original clean paint came to light!
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Sort this out in a second
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After the front wheels
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Which were Genuine Hoover compared to the rear wheels which were replacements.
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The final 2 fingers for the painted chassis was they had painted the bumper too!
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and painted it whilst the motor was fitted...
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One carbon and link wire removed
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More wires and carbons removed
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Time to remove the top bearing
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Not too filthy
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Cooling fan off
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And we can remove the screws that allow the motor cover to be removed
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Coil is unbolted
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Then the fan is held and the armature is untwisted from the belt spindle
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Fan was full of grub
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All the fan spacers removed
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And I chipped off the rock hard motor seal
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And finally I had the nice looking plug off for washing
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That's one of them stripped (the 6525c) and ready for washing
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And using the bag we removed as a bin for all the rubbish this generates
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Time to strip the 652c down
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Baseplate was filthier
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Belt was way more perished and not a Hoover belt like the other machine
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Brushroll was awful
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End caps far rustier
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Pretty much 0 paint left on this one!
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The plastic bushings some of these had hanging on in there
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Brush strips were way more worn than the other ones too!
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Also note plastic brushroll end caps, a sure sign of prior work
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Tool port cage was far worse paint wise
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Switch was just as dirty
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Nice front wheels
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Stripped underneath
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Copy/paste with the motor stripdown, although this did have an original Hoover flex fitted before it was chopped off in the distant past
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Out
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Motor was a fair bit dirtier
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Caked on crap splattered around the cooling fan
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And under the fan
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Both fans!
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Tore the rest of it apart
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And had to chip the lower bearing out to uncover it
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But, despite all this, the hood was in pretty good condition
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Under the filth
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Both motors went back together from a big pile
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Spins with a small breeze now!
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Agitator shells got cleaned up
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And primered then sanded
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Both motors are done
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And everything else was washed, polished, run over the wire wheel and became ready to go back together again
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Built both brushrolls up with new bearings
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And cleaned up end caps
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The good thing about doing this from 2 machines is I can choose the parts that came out the best, on silly things like these front wheel axles
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The best wheels
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After lots of polishing the original paintwork is firmly in patina territory, rather than trashed!
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Best stick the motor down
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Plug all the wires back in and route them all
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An brushroll and new belt fitted
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These parts were the lesser of a pair
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We take a slight tangent here. On both of the machines so far, neither had a complete handle bail's worth of non damaged parts. So I paid postage for this poor old thing
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Can't notice much difference tbh...
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Especially after I polished the hood
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Soon we have lots of parts again
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And a correct 652a rear wheel axle
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A much nicer lower handle cover
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And most needed, a non bent handle bail axle
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Time to rebuild
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Axle in one side, then fit the spring and flange latch
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Wire clip and circlip
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Height adjust pedal
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A non bent height adjuster bracket came out of the scrapper too
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Recline lock can be built up
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Rear wheel axle fitted with the space shim
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A non cracked tool port diverter flap came up too!
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A spring hole is drilled into the 652a chassis for the height adjuster spring
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That's all looking much better
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Time to build the cable up quickly
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Find a more appropriate bulb
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Fashion a bag flange seal out of silicone
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And with the handle from the scrapper fitted it looks a fair bit better
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It all works alot better too!
I guess we need some up to date pics of it now...
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Bazzing refurb! I'll get some photos of it this week. :icon_nod:
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I like doing these sort of refurbs, open a box of rubbish and find a diamond in the rough!
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I like doing these sort of refurbs, open a box of rubbish and find a diamond in the rough!
Speaking of which, the 262 wants to come home!
Here's piccies of the 652 today.
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I'd like a new badge on the head if one crops up.
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262 still needs paint, been raining here constantly, and now it's sunny I'm neck deep in my day job...
Haven't got the kids this weekend, concerted effort is needed