Circa 2001 Hoover Purepower U3330

[alexhoovers94]

Ok, final picture now.


Even though it is over 10 years old, here is what the motor housing looked like when I had taken off the cover prior to cleaning, not to bad is it, expected more dust than that! Not that I was complaining.

 

[vintagerepairer]

It is unlikely that the hose rack would have been replaced, so if it says 2001 then I would suggest it is no older. 1996 would have been when the first batch of bag doors went into production, and one of the very first models was green (maybe even this shade of green). Yours does have the newer letting which is different from the original where PurePower was written in lower case. Regarding the mains lead, although the standard length was 8.5m for Purepowers, there was a basic yellow model -I think perhaps U3125- in all the same font as the original, which had no bag-full lamp and 6m lead. So Hoover had been selling watered-down versions very early on.

 

[alexhoovers94]

Benny


There you see the same green colour but a different model, 100 watts less power and like you said different lettering, this is (Argos 97) Thanks to Chris for this photo.

 

[alexhoovers94]

Also Benny.


Is this the yellow purepower you were talking about?
This one looks as if it was from the original line up, because of the old purepower lettering.

Thankyou to who ever this picture belongs too.

 

[vintagerepairer]

Alex

There appears to be quite a lot of lettering missing there! Not surprising as this was an entirely new range for 1997 and Argos used to prepare their books a good deal of months ahead. This is why so many pictures used to differ from the products supplied, as manufactures used to have to submit photographs well in advance, but by the time the goods were ready for sale, it was not uncommon for changes to have been made.

The U3125 I told you about was in the same yellow colour as the Turbopower2 on the top left. From my poor memory the models for general sale were U3120 in green, U3130in blue, and U3140 in red. The latter model there has high-level filtration (though not HEPA) and I think also was autosense. I cannot recall what the blue one did, but something is telling me it had autosense or variable power, and a permabag.

 

[vintagerepairer]

Yes that is the cleaner. It was not on general sale with the 1997 range and I think it may have been an exclusive line.

 

[beko1987]

Those paint marks should come out with some car polish. I use autoglym super resin polish, failing that menzerna, failing that fine sandpaper and polish!

I remember seeing those new, sadly mum could not afford it. I used a red one at a holiday cottage years ago and after unblocking it it was great! About the same as a tp2, which isn't bad anyway.

 

[jmurray01]

I have to say that Purepower looks to be made to the same high standard as the Turbopower 2!

Good job on cleaning it up - I hope to see a video of it soon.

I do like the green colour, it is similar to the colour of my 1999 Turbopower 2 U2106, maybe even identical.

 

[vintagerepairer]

The main body of the Purepower was as good as the Turbopower 2 & 3, but the chassis and roller was considerably poorer.

 

[alexhoovers94]

The chassis


The chassis seams fine to me, it the handle release that is quite week, it has a very short holding pin on the handle release that can were down easily if the handle release is not pushed down far enough, that click you sometimes here when releasing a purepower handle that is when it is not depressed far enough, so it catches on the 3 possision looking piece that is part of the body of the machine.

With all that said the pedal is very easy to push down on this purepower, less to be said about my 2010 one!

 

[alexhoovers94]

Here is the line of purepowers from the U3330's time.


With the beautiful bannana one on the end there...

 

[parwaz786]

I ad that same one, but it was autosense and the dark green plastic had glitter inside it

 

[alexhoovers94]

I am not aware there was a green autosense, I think if it was it would be a lighter shade than my one.

 

[dysondestijl]

there was a green autosense, can be seen here on the left:
also i have this purepower!

 

[dysondestijl]

Here's my pure power, the height adjuster has fallen off

 

[alexhoovers94]

Both of those purepowers are standard ones...

The one in the fist picture doesn't have autosense either, it just has a bag light.
A purepower with autosense looks like this

 

[turbo500]

There wasn't a green autosense. The only autosense models were from the first run of Purepowers - the blue U3140 and the red U3141. 

 

[alexhoovers94]

As Chris said those two from the original line up were the only autosense purepowers I knew of, the later ones were just standard (like mine) or they had variable power.

 

[dysondestijl]

Oh sorry I've got the wrong pure power picture!!!!!! Sorry ! Could of sworn I had seen a green auto sense somewhere ....

 

[parwaz786]

When My Auntie got married in 2008, she got a house and it was the filthiest house in the world to me, the 2 vacuums were a goblin aztec in yellow and a hoover purepower green with autosense, I swear it was darker green than Alex's one and it had glitter in the plstic, just like a Dyson, it was dead, both vacs were so disgusting! unbelieveably, our family did the house up, even our vax 6140 had a hatrd time there, it broke, then we got a Dyson DC04 brand new, that is the second best vacuum we have in our family home. The house turned out so nice! like it wasnt even dirty before! anyways, My Aunty bought a vax ultrixx bagless cylinder v096 and it lasted 4 years, till she got an argos value range VC04, she hated that one so much, more than the vax, she gave it to me when she moved house, she used it in a housee 3 bedroomed, carpeted terraced household, 3 kids and loads of mess, the argos value range broke after 2 months appprox, she had to use it broken (hose messed up on the end and bin falls off) now the floor tool is messed up. she moved house and got a Henry, she loves it, she says the only bad thing about Henry is that its heavy, she would have liked a hetty though Vax, hoover, Golin, Goodbye! and PS when she was moving, I took my least best dyson, DC14 there and it got a half bin! so imagine what the DC04 lime would do! the Hoover Dust manager electricuted me when I tried to repair it in 2008, and the Goblin was to disgusting for me to clean and was all crapped up, quiet tho, quieter than an Eco Henry, but bear in mind when I tried it, the suction was less than a Dyson DC03 and less than a dirt devil handy zip and had a JAMMED PACKED FULL BAG! and it was even wet, the builders used it too.I should've took the purepower home and kept it in the loft for me today that I have the skills to repair it and show u