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Please post some picks so we can see your ebay find and give some good suggestions !

Great buy ! Unfortunately I am from Italy and many sellers do not ship to Italy ( don't ask me why, if you think that I am payingthe postage costs ) so I often write them and sometimes get no answer at all. I surely have seen on ebay the model you bought but did not bid cause my real love are...

I have the same problem with some of my early HOOVERS : the handle cover and cable cover get sometime a sort of "rubber cancer" and start disintegrating. I think the plaque that covers the switch were simply "rubberized" with a sort of isolating paint, in order to improve isolation in this risky...

Your cleaners are great and - above all- in amazing condition, really ready for a museum expo ! The tiny senior toy cleaner is also well kept! I have a pink one but I am not able to make it work ! I really wish I had time and space to start re-polishing my vacuum cleaner collection as well...

VINTAGEREPAIRER VINTAGEREPAIRER, that's true, but consider - as you notice - that in those years not all houses had earthed socks. In Italy it was even worse : in the 1970's only th new houses had earthed plugs and tried to adopt a terrible new sistem called "MAGIC" which avoided children to be...

THANKS ! HERE's THE 160 at work THANKS ! HERE's THE 160 at work

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RESTORATION COMPLETE ! Here I'm back for what probably is going to be the end of this thread ...unfortunately no service manual for my 262 and 160 cleaners, but I got already lots of material from AL for the ìnstruction manual so I am very happy already ! I wanted to share my satifaction for a...

A QUESTION ABOUT THE HOOVER 262...... A QUESTION ABOUT THE HOOVER 262...... Maybe AL knows something about it : Looking at AL's 262, I was noticing that the paint of the 2 chassis look different : AL's seems the same hammer paint (not really hammer paint but anyway rough at touch, difficult to...

Hi David ! Hi David ! Happy to hear from another UK collector ! Thanks for your kind comment, I love this 262 ! I even didn't really want one ( and I bought it for 10 pounds only on internet ) but I changed my mind when i saw it, a great machine ! I see anyway some cheap HOOVER 262 sometimes on...

Sorry for the delay ......... Thanks Gary ! Thanks AL ! The instruction booklet for the HOOVER 262 is also super nice, and I had never seen it also ! I think I will try to reprint it and use a copy for display ! Well ...my HOOVER 262 bag is not the orginal ....but I love it the same: it...

HOOVER 262 - latest London find So here is a better image of my HOOVER 262 model : Al, please give a look at the bag and let me know if it might be original. The handle is also very well kept and is not perishing like many of that series usually are...anyway i have oiled all rubber parts with...

THANKS EVERYONE ! GARY : your story is as crazy as mine !!!!!!!!!!!!!! This cleaner is in wonderful condition ! Mine is really poor....but I love all of them anway ! Listen : I have now a straight rule : whatever happens I never sell anything from my collection even when I need money !!!. I...

THANKS EVERYONE ! Oh thankyou both ! Al : sorry I did not contact you but I came to LONDON really "last minute" and had no plans at all ! At that moment I just wanted to escape from Italy and from everyday life to forget all the problems at my restaurant: I adore Great Britain and in LONDON i...

( ISN't THAT A SHAME...so many cleaners and so much dust on my poor machines ???!! )

HOOVER 262 - my latest find in LONDON HOOVER 262 - my latest find in LONDON ! I must be honest : I was never fascinated by the model 262 which I always found poor in look and design, if compared to its glorious "brother" model 160 or following 612 model. But I bought this anyway on EBAY while...

HOOVER - Perivale plant - MAIN ENTRANCE HALL HOOVER - Perivale plant - MAIN ENTRANCE HALL

HOOVER - Perivale plant HOOVER - Perivale plant - MAIN ENTRANCE

HOOVER - Perivale plant HOOVER - Perivale plant

THANK YOU so much ! VACBEAR !!! Thankyou so much for your help, once again you have been very kind to me : i only had one scan from this beautiful booklet - which i had never seen entirely - and now I can have it complete ! Thanks really ! Now I only hope to have a copy from the service manual...