1982 Hoover PortaPower S1015

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The usual story, discovered her on the Land of Ebay, low starting bid, so I placed a bid on but thought it would go for far too much, but, to my surprise, I won her for £10.50 ($13.46) Complete with tools, box and manual.

It's in pretty good condition (usage/motor wise) regarding its age, very few light scratches and scuffs, the scuffs of which were easily removed. However, she had been summoned to the shed, and as a result, was very dusty and mucky and unfortunately, the box and manual had gotten damp at one point.

But, as for the machine, nothing a nice hot soapy bath and lots of TLC couldn't fix!

Before pictures as usual, followed by afters.

(Again, apologies for the pictures flipping upright!)[this post was last edited: 6/27/2017-17:53]

 

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Filter completely disintegrated as per usual with 70's/80's machines.

 

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Pic #1 ~ A better before picture, #2 ~ A very filthy hose (looked worse in person), #3 Ref. Picture of the floor tool, #4 / #5 ~ Mucky floor tool which was then dismantled.

 

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#1 ~ Slight crack in the upholstery tool, and the weird little rubber lint pickers (which for some reason weird me out when touched Lol)

#2 ~ Dusting brush stripped.

#3 ~ Slight distortion.

 

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Yummy bag and rating sticker.

 

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Now onto the beast.

Suppressor which was removed, and final picture, mucky fan.

Again, thank you Vacuumlad1650 for a copy of the service manual!

 

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#1 ~ 50/50 picture of the flex being cleaned using Cif cream.

#2 ~ (unfortunately out of focus which I didn't notice at first) Dry bearing, which was packed with grease.

#3 ~ Commy which is in very good condition.

 

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After ~

#1 ~ Motor all serviced.

#2 ~ New foam cut and glued in place.

#3 ~ Everything all cleaned, reassembled and ready to go.

 

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And that's it! Will hopefully have an after video up soon.

 

[kirbyclassiciii]

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Is that motor the Dial-A-Matic type or the Spirit type?

~Ben

 

[vacuumlad1650]

Glad the Service Book I had helped! I was fairly certain it would be the same for US and UK models, but was not 100% sure. If you hit any more problems, just give me a holler!

 

[vacuumlad1650]

Ben that is a Dial-A-Matic type of motor. The spirit motors weren't as "Beefy" as the DAM motor, but they had a little more suction.

 

[kirbyclassiciii]

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Andy,

I didn't know they were still using the DAM motor in March 1982! Though, I am sure while they already used the Spirit motors on our Portapowers during 1981, they continued using the DAM motors for the export machines (and I know the DAM upright itself, which to Europeans is the Convertible and to Aussies as the Dynamatic) was still being sold for export into the early 1990s), which hers is.

~Ben[this post was last edited: 6/27/2017-19:18]

 

[vacuumlad1650]

I want to say they swapped to the Spirit motor in the Porta-Power/Swingette machines around 1985. Someone with more precise information could either confirm or correct me there.