Another little dream realised!

[caligula]

That is fantastic!

Thank's for taking the time to do this today, I didn't expect it to be this fast. What a wonderful Christmas present.

Actually I saw one of these at the Hoover Historical Center located in North Canton, Ohio, (USA). The year was 1980, and I got a private tour by the director Stacy Krammes. That tour turned out to the first step in the founding of this club. Stacy also put a fellow named John Lucia in touch with me. He and I toured the Center and the Hoover factory in 1982. A little over three months later John and I began the club. Jan. 2, 2010 will mark the 27th year of the Vacuum Cleaner Collector's Club.

By the way, Stacy Krammes's husband Don was the man who invented the Hoover Floor Washer around 1958.

Have a very Merry Christmas,

Alex Taber

 

[hygiene903]

Beautiful Machine, Jack!

And how lucky you are that it arrived in nearly excellent condition and complete! You're right, it was a wonderful Christmas present! Congrats,
Jeff

 

[aeoliandave]

Hoover Floor Washer - on of my all time favorite gadgets. I have a yellow one and a blue one. Thank you Alex for that info.

I'm writing here on a sad note with an appeal. Over on Automatic Washer.org there's a sad fellow Joe Lippard who received his blue Floor Washer with the nozzle shattered to tiny bits and this is one plastic that crazy glue will not mend.

Does anyone here have a junker floor washer for parts or just a spare nozzle, yellow or white, that you could contact Joe about? At least he has the equally hard to find sqeegee brush strips...

In my own case. my yellow floor washer has no brush strips and can not be used until I find something suitable to fit the opening. My second floor washer was a real bargain as it came with no nozzle at all but I was able to find a regular vacuum floor/wall brush nozzle in my parts bin that I adapted to fit and it works very well. So all is not lost for Joe.

I was going to post on AutoWash.org about this situation, and joined up over the weekend, but due to some glitch my password is not being accepted and we're working on it - another matter altogether.
bUt I did want to bring this Floor Washer nozzle probl;em to the attention of Vacuumland in the hopes some one somewhere can help out a fellow collector.

I, myself, could use a set of brush strips for the Floor Washer. They are very finely packed and clamped in aluminum caming so as to form a solid squeegee surface to the water on the floor.

Maybe someone from AutoWasher will see this post and direct Joe to it, please?

Dave

My yellow Floor Washer with the bojack nozzle.



http://www.automaticwasher.org/TD/THREADS/SANDBOX/2009/26166.htm?7

 

[aeoliandave]

Joe, what you need for a substitute is a wall brush with all around brushes that can be trimmed flat on a belt sander. The nozzle will have to have a rear port hole at 90 degrees right angle to the floor. I used a piece of rubber radiator hose to bridge the gap between the nozzle port and the floor washer intake pipe. It works as well as the original to suck up the water leaving it slightly damp to air dry.

Good Luck and if I find any more information or even locate a suitable floor nozzle for you, you'll be hearing from me.

I adore the Hoover Floor Washer Dryer.

Dave

The no name nozzle I adapted. Note very close set brush tufts - they do not have gaps between tufts at the root. This is essential to create a tight water seal at floor level.

 

[aeoliandave]

Found the original post from December 2007 that includes info on how I 'fixed' my nozzle-less Floor Washer Dryer.

http://www.vacuumland.org/TD/ARCHIVE/VINTAGE/2008/2333x50.htm

 

[hooverbaby]

Hoover Model 200

Do you not remember that I also have one of those machines with the toggle switch Jack?...not quite as spectacular as yours I must admit. Do you think that this still has the original paintwork?

It's interesting how this machine appears to have an orange logo on the bag, whereas it seems that the later logos were red.