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hotpoint 95622 Motors are so easy to fix on the constellations. Photo of my 822

hotpoint 95622 No, it’s not too big a job, I’m restoring a grey one at the moment so will take some photos over the next few days to help explain how to dismantle the casings, remove the motor and drill out the rivets. Lee

Hoover Constellation Just like new

Hoover Constellation As Gareth has suggested a car body shop would get a close match, or a powder coater could get closer. I go to a powder coater who shot blasts then re-powder coats. Rust bucket

hotpoint 95622 That it for now, it joins the queue in the workshop, along with a grey Hoover constellation and cloths dryer.

hotpoint 95622 inside the vacumm chamber.

hotpoint 95622 Cloth dust bag.

hotpoint 95622 Vacuum chamber cover, many years of pipe insertion have chipped away the paint which has lead to the rust problem. Funny little machine, it has no power switch to turn in on and off with. It came with a carpet tool, hard floor tool, dusting brush and hoses.

hotpoint 95622 Motor end cover.

hotpoint 95622 It measures about 15inch in length and about 7inch in diameter. On 9inch slay skids.

hotpoint 95622 Plate

I just had to have this little vacuum cleaner. Made around the 50’s / 60’s by a local manufacture, which I can’t find any information on, so I can only guess at the age. Plate information: E.W.Jones LTD Wellington, Shropshire, UK Ser No 9004 Model J1960 WREKIN Wellington in Shropshire is only...

hotpoint 95622 Nice machine, I love constellation, I have never seen this slanted version in the UK.

hotpoint 95622 I have never seen this one before either.

hotpoint 95622 Hoover 822 after

hotpoint 95622 Hoover 822 before

hotpoint 95622 It must be something strange with constellations, keep following me home too. Great machines enjoy the best classic designed machines in the world.

hotpoint 95622 I left the dents in, shows how much work the old girls have done. And think if it was all plastic it would have gone in the skip a lot sooner.

hotpoint 95622 Thanks folks. Al, your right about plugs being fitted very poor, dangerous when left to the customer to fit some people have no idea on the colour code goes to which terminal, and I have found vintage appliances with tin foil wrapped around the fuse, how mad is that. Photo of...

hotpoint 95622 All over, skips, car-boots and ebay, the yellow one I spotted in a garden shed sitting on a shelf in the window. The owner of the shed was glad to be rid of it along with the 862.