Curb-picked Eureka Upright
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twocvbloke
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Just clean fans, I think if they tried doing it with dust, dirt and fluff going through, it would clog up too easily... 
not even on a
Pancake motor machine!!!......its still a bit of a strain!!!!.....you may have used sanitares. BUT, do u know how many F&G eurekas have come in and out of my hands in the last 5 years????>....trust me....eureka belts for eurekas, hoover belts for Hoovers.
and the difference in blender motors and pancake motors are......blender motors have a adjustable sleeve berring in the top of the motor. and a pancake is a double ball bering motor. in the 60's and 70's most Eurekas use the pancake motor, but they were only 3.5amps....the blender motor didnt come out till the late 70's, then the pancake motor was finally beefed to 6.0amps with the introduction of the ESP. so pancake motors are not just higher ampage.....they are just a better quality motors.
Pancake motor machine!!!......its still a bit of a strain!!!!.....you may have used sanitares. BUT, do u know how many F&G eurekas have come in and out of my hands in the last 5 years????>....trust me....eureka belts for eurekas, hoover belts for Hoovers.
and the difference in blender motors and pancake motors are......blender motors have a adjustable sleeve berring in the top of the motor. and a pancake is a double ball bering motor. in the 60's and 70's most Eurekas use the pancake motor, but they were only 3.5amps....the blender motor didnt come out till the late 70's, then the pancake motor was finally beefed to 6.0amps with the introduction of the ESP. so pancake motors are not just higher ampage.....they are just a better quality motors.
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That cleaner will look great once it's all cleaned up! Is the trim on.that model "big bad Orange" or some shade of red? The accumulated dirt makes it difficult to tell in a photograph.
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It's definitely red. So far the cleaning's been going fairly well, the big mark on the corner of the hood that looks like the paint has been scraped away and the metal is rusting was actually just some kind of gunk that came off with isopropanol and a lot of rubbing. The hood definitely has some little chips and scratches but nothing too major. The bag has almost no cracks in the vinyl (looks like better material than the stuff Hoover used) but it has some kind of nasty orange stains on it - if those will come off I may try to replace the zipper on it (or ask the person here who offered to do it), but if not I'll probably put a new bag on.
I just need to clean/oil the motor and do the handle/cord and I'll be ready to start reassembling it.
It's definitely red. So far the cleaning's been going fairly well, the big mark on the corner of the hood that looks like the paint has been scraped away and the metal is rusting was actually just some kind of gunk that came off with isopropanol and a lot of rubbing. The hood definitely has some little chips and scratches but nothing too major. The bag has almost no cracks in the vinyl (looks like better material than the stuff Hoover used) but it has some kind of nasty orange stains on it - if those will come off I may try to replace the zipper on it (or ask the person here who offered to do it), but if not I'll probably put a new bag on.
I just need to clean/oil the motor and do the handle/cord and I'll be ready to start reassembling it.
And the model's 1424E. I wonder if there ever was a model 1424J, though?
~Ben
~Ben
