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Titanic Brandon- Where did you get the cut sheet on the early Hoovers? Very neat! Would you consider posting that literature in the "Library" section of this website...it is invaluable information to anyone interested in vintage Hoover machines, especially those before 1920. I know quite a bit...

Hoover 825 This is a wonderful machine - it's craftsmanship, engineering and quality of construction put it very near the top of the list of the very best that Hoover produced before WWII...congratulations!

sateen bags Dave: These photos of the Hoover bags with the darts cut out...this is how the bag on my Hoover 105 is made...I don't know if this pattern applies to earlier machines like the 102 or N, but it is certainly right for a model 105. By the way, the 541's bag is white under the bag band...

Sateen Bags Dave - Wow, what great information! My sateen bag is exactly the same configuration as yours...no darts and is dated 3-24. Mine is badly holed/torn through the rear center bottom both the outside and inside layers. I noticed the broken rubber guard in your pictures. Where will you...

There's a vintage Hoover 103 on ebay...looks to have a Robbins & Myers brass-era motor but it has a replacement closed top "Hoover Special" bag with scissor-style bag hanger and a 541/early 543 style handle, which I do not think is correct for this model. It seems kind of pricey, at $224.95, but...

Recreating/repairing sateen bags Trebor- Thanks for that bit of information. Any ideas what Hoover (or anyone else) used to "chemically treat" their bags to make them "dustproof"?

Recreating/repairing sateen bags Truckerx, I have the 541 manual that you are referring to, but I would be interested to see whether or not yours is earlier or later than mine. I have two manuals for model 105, one earlier and one later. Interestingly, the part numbers are very different from...

Sateen Bag Re-creation These are all great ideas. Judging by the bag that I have, its design looks rather complicated to me, (my tailoring experience is limited to sewing on buttons!)with fine stitching in a sort of brown-black color. Graphics appear to be brown-black in color also. The...

Sateen Bag Re-creation I'm looking into finding someone locally that will use the existing bag as the pattern to create a new one. I know that sateen is made from cotton, but I'm clueless as to what sort of chemical treatment was used originally. Considering that Hoover warned against turning...

Has anyone had experience either repairing or recreating a vintage Hoover sateen bag? I just bought a vintage Hoover 541 on e-bay for $50 (yes, it cost more to ship it than it did to buy it, but it has arrived in good condition thanks to UPS Pack and Ship). It has the original bag, marked 3-24...

Favorite Hoover I have always loved the whisper-quiet model 541. It is a great machine with just the right amount of "spit and polish". By the way, it is also a Henry Dreyfuss design, his first for Hoover.

I acquired a most unusual and what I believe to be an all-original model 105 about 12 years ago on ebay. This is an early machine (serial #615270 on the original factory installed name-plate which bears a final patent date on it of April 6, 1920). It differs from any other 105 I've seen in that...