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Normal functioning of the switch has been achieved; hooray! I found that there were six screws to remove to open the back end of the machine. Two were there to secure the small cover over the mains cable connector block, and this revealed two more at the top. There were also two more at the...

Thank you! It's a big help just knowing that there are four screws, since it lets me know whether I have actually found them all when I go digging. If a casing is stiff to open it can be a worry if you don't know how many screws you need to remove.

Yeah, seriously, a free Hoover, just collect it. First serious post gets the machine. It's a yellow Hoover Aria 1300, the variable speed model. It's old but still working, though it does need attention. For full disclosure's sake I'll describe it in some detail. It is not ideal if you just...

Hi all, this is my first post. I have a Hoover Powerglide S4256 that dates from about 1986, when I bought it new. It still works fine except for one aspect of it that has recently become unreliable. The on-off switch doesn't switch the machine on reliably any more. Sometimes I switch on, it...