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A manufacturers guarantee is in addition to a customers statutory rights in consumer law. This guarantee is completely optional and can pretty much exclude what it likes. The only real stipulation used to be that where a guarantee is offered, it has to be honoured, subject to the right...

I was always told that walking on a carpet would always do far, far more damage than anything else, including vacuuming. I was also told that a carpet which was not regularly vacuumed would hold onto so much damaging dirt and grit which would be crushed into the pile by guess what? Walking. So...

"slightly offended, only asked for help. i am a fully qualified plumbing and heating engineer of 20 years so i do have a basic knowledge of electrics and the dangers of electrics. so the factors that its dead are one of on/off switch, hi/lo rocker switch, pcb, or the motor itself?" Why on earth...

If it's dead then it could be any number of factors. The problem is, from the way you have written your message you don't sound like you are familiar with electrical testing. This is not a problem and I am not judging you, but I can tell you it will make people reluctant to reply in case they...

Well it's a Hoover fan heater from the 70's. Not much else one can say. During the middle 1960's to late 1970's, Hoover added a number of small appliances to it's floor care and laundry range. Although Hoover made irons for years and years before hand, they didn't do much else as regards small...

The GE connection is spot-on according to Wikipedia. Also this cleaner looks very much like the GEC cleaner in this advert. http://https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomson-Houston_Electric_Company

Without a doubt the use of a model name is all about identity and branding. At a guess, the reuse of a name is about either brand recognition or that a name was cheap & easy to use, or both. Interestingly, in the UK, Hoover were one of the few vacuum cleaner manufacturers to use model names...

£200 is the BIN. The seller is requesting offers. He or she might let it go for a tenner for all we know.

What did you ask the seller?

It's like this:

They wanted £50 for that? They were very lucky to get £20. I do not understand the mentality of some of these charity shops. The items they get have all been donated, so it's all money in the till. The prices they ask are sometime way over what one might call "the going rate". Never more so...

Well it's been years and years since I fixed one of these cleaners, so do please double check the number of screws! One thing I do recall is that they are not hard to take apart.

As I recall, all access is via the rear of the cleaner, and you remove 4 ordinary cross headed screws. The rocker switch is a design which was unique to this cleaner, with a very larger rocker pedal and will be hard to source. However, again from memory, the hole in which it sits is a standard...

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Philips cleaners disappeared from the UK about 1996. Since then the odd one has cropped up here and there over the years, but never a full range like it used to be. I've no idea why. Although some of their models were higher than this, 1000 watts was were the numbers seemed to stabilise when it...

Single fans Motors are funny things, because many of the clean-fan uprights in the UK (though by no means all) had only one moving fan and one static set of vanes, and these were never high wattage motors, nor were they noisy, so I guess it proves that it's possible to make a satisfactory motor...

This is all quite true from how I see it too. That the rechargeable cleaners are being marketed as being as good as a full size upright. However, in this instance I do think common sense has to kick in from the consumer. They have to question their own ideas of what they thought it could do...

The biggest advantage of two motors from the point of veiw of a commercial user was that if the cleaner failed due to brush roll problems, a new head could be fitted so as to carry on using the cleaner. That's the theory. In practise, I don't think it was taken advantage of as much as it could...

I could not agree more with the above post about Dyson not marketing their cleaners clearly enough. This has been their downfall for many years. I knew a girl who worked as a demonstrator for Dyson for some time and she told me she could pull her hair out at times trying to get clarification on...

Any amount of time spent fixing a cleaner like this is going to cost a fortune. Factor the cost of parts in and it spirals out of control. The entire machine can be replaced with a brand new one for £70 in Wickes, and a far better cleaner it is too. Why would a customer want this one mending...