Collection Photos!

[vintageroyal611]

Corey

Your Hoovers are absolutely BEAUTIFUL! If my Hoovers ever look that good it will be a miracle! You have all my favorite models on display too: 28, 63(i WILL find one someday), 1060, DAMs etc. Thanks for sharing with us!

 

[henrydreyfuss]

Thank you Matt for your nice comment! It's not too hard to polish up an old Hoover. Just takes the right cleaning products, and a little elbow grease!

Now Jack is the 'Activator' Brushroll you're referring to the brushroll shutoff switch that's on America's Hoover Innovations? Is that the brushroll with the almost vertical small beater bars? I'm really spotty on my knowledge of newer Hoover cleaner's outside of the US.

I really liked the commercial for the original Hoover 'The One' vacuum cleaner. But I hear those had a lousy typical filtration setup.

 

[joe22]

wow, awesome vac collection.

i have a red Elite that looks like the uk turbolite and it is an excellent vac. the other one has 2 heights and the tools mount with the adapter hooked under the front.

only relation to an oreck is that the dirt goes up the handle.

vac fact, was once told the early elites had a flaw, the switch on the side of the handle would get clogged with dust and they had to replace them. later ones had a sealed off switch. info from local vac guy, he said he replaced dozens of switches on the first elites.

joe

 

[vintagehoover]

The original Agitator was developed in the late 1910s and early 1920s as the most effective way to clean the carpets of the era. It's design was 'tweaked' over the following decades to fit the specs of the machines it was used in, but it remained essentially unaltered until the early 1980s. By then, things had changed; we now had thick, heavy, wall-to-wall carpeting, and something new was required to clean it!

Hoover found the problem with the Agitator on these thicker carpets was that with each stroke, although the brush bristles restored the trodden-down nap, the beater bars smoothed it flat again.

The Activator was developed to have smaller, diagonal strips which gave the desired, gentle beating action, but did not smooth the carpet down. This left the carpet looking more refreshed because it 'reactivated' the pile, hence the 'Activator' name.

Combined with extremely powerful airflow from Hoover's direct-air 'Turbo' motor (a concept they actually patented in 1917!!), the Turbopower and Turbomaster machines were some of Hoover's best-ever carpet cleaners!

 

[vintagehoover]

Oh, and 'The One' was an embarrassing disaster in every way. I spoke to the assistant manager in my local branch of Currys about The One recently; she said 'Every machine we sold came straight back!'

Design and build quality were appalling, and the useless cyclonic system clogged instantly. Customers found the machines overheating and cutting out constantly.

It's one of those cleaners that you look at, and just wonder, 'what the heck were they thinking?!'

What the free flights scandal started, The One finished; the final nail in Hoover's coffin!

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[a007kirbyman]

Corey & collection...

I have only one suggestion Corey...

...move the Kirbys to the forefront where they should be. LOL

Other than that, you have a very nice & vast collection. Those 'coffee can' Hoovers both (yours & Jack's) L@@K in gr8 restored condition.

[[To answer your posed ?: G6D, 2HD w/an original Zipp Brush, 3CB, DS 80, & a S VII or DS 50, I believe.

hagn all

Bill

 

[aeoliandave]

Fantastic Heap O' Sweepers, Corey! and only 22 years old, already.

Boy, I'll say your collection exploded when you got the driver's license...side trips down to Perrysburg, perhaps? *wink*

I really like the carpets you chose. Is that lumpy textured green carpet over linoleum in the grape leaf pattern or is that carpet too?

Dave aka Brushminster Fuller

 

[ohio_tuec]

Hoover Elite vs. Oreck

"You do raise an interesting point regarding the comparison between Hoover Elites and Orecks. The Build quality is sadly similar, but thanks to it's much larger fan, more aggressive agitator, and much larger dirt ducts, the Elite cleans absolute circles around the Oreck."

I will agree, the Elite has more powerful suction than the Oreck, and Hoover really did a copycat with the top-fill direct air system. The roller brush turns faster on the Oreck (6500 RPM). I think the jury is out on who built a more long-lasting machine however. When the Elite first came on the scene as a replacement for the Convertible, I thought it was a piece of junk, I've since added a few to my collection. There are plenty of Orecks out there 20 years plus still going strong, however trying to find an early Elite without a broken fan housing or a dry motor and you're looking for a needle in a haystack. Why is that?

 

[ohio_tuec]

Add to my last

Mr. Oreck DID invent the design for the Oreck, while he was working for Whirlpool. It was originally licensed under Whirlpool and when Whirlpool gave up their vacuum cleaner division, Mr. Oreck purchased it. The first Oreck models were made for him by McDonald Electric.

 

[eurekaprince]

Corey!

That's one beautiful turquoise Eureka Automatic 260 upright! Take good care of it! My childhood buddy was that very machine. So interesting to see how that three-level hood profile began in the early 1960's and was retained all the way through to some of the last Dial-A-Naps...

Question for you: That dual voltage Hoover upright interests me a lot. I am always looking for dual voltage appliances as I may want to move overseas one day. When you say dual voltage, do you mean 110volts and 220 volts? Was this kind of machined designed for the armed forces families moving back and forth from the USA?

Eurekaprince Brian

 

[vintagehoover]

'...however trying to find an early Elite without a broken fan housing or a dry motor and you're looking for a needle in a haystack. Why is that?'

How much less than a contemporary Oreck did an Elite cost?

 

[kirbyclassiciii]

You Do Have Quite a Goldmine of Vacuums

Corey,

You do indeed have quite a goldmine of vacuums!

Among what I saw there was:
*Hoover Swingette 409 (1973-1975)
*Hoover Dial-A-Matic U6041-030 (1976-1978)
*Hoover Dial-A-Matic U6039-030 (1976-1978)
*Hoover Dial-A-Matic 1178 (1969-1971)

~Ben

 

[electroluxxxx]

Corey
I love that lux discovery, not only that but it has to be on of the nicest ones that I have ever seen. Love the collection all too much as I do see some of my dream machines in there

Mike

 

[commodoremoody]

That's alot of vacs!

FANTOM FURY!

I got one too. Bought it for $7 at the Goodwill. It needed a new belt and it had a toy stuck in the hose. I use it daily and it runs great.

~Tim

 

[xraytech]

Jack,

about the cost difference between an Elite and an Oreck.
I believe a BOL Oreck is like $299 or some where around that price.

An Elite 200(like your turbolite) was I think $59 or $69 and you could get a better model for $99 and I think as time went on there were a few models that were around $120 or so.

Corey,

Awesome collection, Nice variety of Hoovers.
Email me sometime, I would love to talk to you about vacs sometime

Sam

 

[luxg]

Corey, that is a beautiful collection. Thanks for taking the time to share it with us. You should be very proud. All of your machines look to be in wonderful condition!!
Terry

 

[henrydreyfuss]

Thanks guys!

Thanks everyone for the nice comments!

Thank you Jack for posting a video on the Hoover 'The One' vacuum. I always wanted to see one of those in action! They look huge! Does the want have a permanently attached crevice tool?? When working properly, does it do a decent on the rugs?

Brian: Indeed the Hoover Dual voltage can run on both electrical currents. There is a small switch underneath the machine that lets you change the voltage. It's only 3 amps on the 110v setting! This vacuum also has the switch on the handle fork, like the old commercial convertibles, or the Hoover 31, which I find interesting. It's also got a thick 3-wire cord on it. All on a model with a plastic base! That vacuum was a generous gift from our own Swingette!

Good eye Bill for noticing the zip brush hanging on the Kirby Legend! I forgot I had that hanging there!

Thanks Mike the Discovery runs great and is in good shape. It's a little discolored. I've had that thing for about 4 years now. I like how easy those are to push. I like the attachments for those machines. It's not my best machine, but I've used it a lot!

 

[swingette]

I find Orecks with broken fan chambers/pivots all the time. Its one of the first things I check for.

 

[kenmore81]

Love It Corey, I really like the dual voltage,as well as the Kenmore Twin-fan,e-lux,DAM's,Elites,and of course the Convertibles!
"And the newer Cheapies"Do I spy a green Kenmore Duo next to the Discovery?Love itlove the collection,I see lots of memories in your collection.

 

[richardc1983]

I loved the hoover turbo powers and the turbo power juniors with the cloth bag.

Very good machines and good suction for carpets but poor suction on the hoses.