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Sounds like a good idea! Good luck with the arrangements, maybe I will make it to another convention one day..

Turbopower U2662 Freedom I once fitted a paper bag conversion kit to a U2662 Turbopower Freedom. From memory, it included changing the bag door, back box and lower cover plate.

Love that early Cleveland!

Removing agitator shaft Unscrew one end cap, then get a hammer and holding the agitator with the unscrewed end pointing upwards, drive the shaft down sharply until it comes out. Pulling on the end cap at the other side or using pliers at the far end is unlikely to get you anywhere. Get a mole...

Here it is Walter! [email protected] You could try emailing Jonathan on this email address I just dug out of the members' profiles. Alternatively, if no one wants it I actually have an original 1346, with the brown bag, nearly all original parts from circa 1969..but the furniture...

There you go!..or should I say, there you blow... Of Course, there is no harm in trying the lower rating of fuse but I doubt you will get away with it for long. I might happen to mention that I do have 17th Edition Regs and also used to run a vac shop for 10 years. Sometimes, machines came in...

I have just checked.. the recommended rating for the 6525C Senior and it is 13 Amp..so DO NOT use a 3 amp fuse on the U4002/4014 Ranger; it is NOT suitable, due to high start-up current! The standard motor fitted will not draw more than between about 1.7 and 2.6 amps under normal running...

Re: Fuses.. What you need to bear in mind when fitting fuses on vacuums is that the motor can draw a high initial current on start up, so the 3 amp fuse may not be suitable. This is especially the case if you use the attachments on the senior, which boosts the motor power. Hoover used to...

Ingenious Charles! ..and fascinating! These days power tools are a lot easier to come by for the majority..but it could still come in handy modifying something like a model XII Lux for unusual applications, such as winding ignition coils! It's got me thinking now.. Thanks for posting, Stephen

Very nice Seamus! Whilst there's still quite a few 1354A machines around they rarely turn up in such nice clean little-used condition as this one! I bet you won't want to scratch it..so will you be using it much or putting it on show? Stephen

Sorry I slipped up! about the location; it's Wigston, south Leicester area, south of Loughborough and Nottingham, not Birmingham. I was instantly thinking Birmingham for some reason when it said midlands! Stephen

lol..can you just have a look at this.. It may seem funny..but when you run a repair shop for 10 years, this sort of thing happens to you everyday!..and sometimes as quicky as that too, with no one else to help..and all wanting instant attention! I like the bit about the chain just coming off...

Yes, it is nice!.. so there will be more interest now that everyone knows about it?! It looks like the machine will have to be collected from the Birmingham area, whoever wins it. Callum, the belts for the 370 and 375 are round in cross-section and smaller in diameter than the round belts...

I once heard of someone.. cutting down a 375 armature shaft at the belt pulley end and making it fit into a 119! Apparently it worked but I've never weighed it up myself whether the pitch/sizing of the threads on the pulleys are the same. If you try cutting down the 1334 armature to fit the...

The U1104.. has a different armature to the 1346/A/1354/A. The 1334/A or U1012 armature is not a straight swap because the shaft is longer and designed for a machine with a round belt pulley, as opposed to the flat belt pulleys of the U1104 or U1036. Also, the U1104 armature is different to the...