Does anyone hot rod their Vacs?

[oldskoolguy]

I’m not sure if you could count this as hot rodding, but I am getting a metal bottom plate and beater brush for my Hoover c1439 in place of the current 2 brush agitator and ABS bottom plate. Plus I’m thinking about possibly converting my recently acquired Dirt Devil Broom Vac model 720 to use hepa bags. Either A style Hoover, B style Royal, or F style Kirby. All depends on the full tube and whether or not it can or can’t be removed or modified.

 

[lesinutah]

Hey

That's modifying but hot rodding implies adding new bigger motor etc. Your making your vacuum more effective. Where as messing with motor.
Les

 

[broomvac]

@oldskoolguy

I agree; the original Dirt Devil bags are pretty miserable. I’ve never known a bag which can clog up so quickly while simultaneously leaking an embarrassing amount of dust right through the paper itself! I love the Broom Vac, but I am disappointed by the original bags.

Anyways, for your Broom Vac, try HEPA Kenmore “Type O” bags. They fit perfectly without any modification to the vacuum or the bags. I believe the Miele upright HEPA bags will fit just the same, as well as several of the Tacony upright HEPA bags and even Panasonic upright bags.

Hope that helps!

https://www.vacuumland.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREADM.cgi?37585_13

 

[tolivac]

I did replace the stock motor in my Volt with a more powerful upgraded one like the Simplicity Freedom vacuums use-Noted a diffrenece right away-the battery life is slightly shorter,though.But does perform better.I modified one of my Roayal 10A metal uprights to use Kirby F-Fit bags-does work a little better than the stock ones that use a smaller diameter fill tube.I did modify a McIntosh 225 power amp from 7591 tubes to EL34 which are a lot easier and cheaper to get.Had to change the socket pinout and bias resistors.Also got rid of the voltage doubler suopply to use an external one that has a full wave rectifier with a 5U4 tube.BETTER!!!!!

 

[rivstg1]

well, modifying yes, not sure its hot rodding them....

I mod'ed my Royal 886 with Kirby fill tube to convert from bottom fill to top fill and Kirby hepa charcoal bag.  Converted a Kirby Tradition smaller diameter factory fill tube to a later Heritage II larger fill tube and bag support with HEPA bag, a kirby DS50, DS80, 513, and Classic III from shakeout bags to HEPA cloth bags by inserting bag inside the cloth shakeout bag.  


 


Does that count? Idk

 

[lesinutah]

Hey

I use sentria 2 fill tube on tradition. It's in eyes of the beholder.
Les

 

[gsheen]

I have done a few. I used to work in R&D at Electrolux Here and one of my favorite parts of my job was building prototype machines and Test Mules often comprising of current models with new proposed parts added to run durability tests on them.

One of the first machines i can remember modifying myself was a Advance carpetwin 20. a beast of a machine but I found the suction power very poor, I owned a Carpet cleaning company by then and had a huge job to clean massive offices on a continual basses. I ripped out the single motor which i think had a rating of 500 watt and machined a new housing and fitted two 1500 watt commercial dommell motors .The suction was so insane I had to reinforce the Housing.
I loved that machine it was awesome, For the life of me I cannot remember what happened to it, Its probably sitting in one of the storage rooms right at the back waiting for me to rediscover it in a few years when I finally get round to cleaning them out.

 

[lesinutah]

Hey

That sounds insane. R@D job must have been a blast. You tripled the suction. You Know your stuff. Very envious of the line of work.
Les

 

[gsheen]

The R&D job was a blast miss it every day. Nowdays I own a vacshop and also build custom industrial set up vacuums systems

 

[lesinutah]

Hey

That's still pretty sweet get hands on industrial. I've seen a few industrial set ups and thought if I get rich I'm getting one of these.
So no research just development. Still pretty sweetie job in vacuums. I'm jealous.
Les

 

[ridgidwd0670]

I put a Ametek high performance (115923) motor in a Tristar; esp the a101 series (exl, mg & cs series) & also my old compact c80 (its original motor was ametek 116311) now i go thru more bags because the compact now picks up more dirt with the high-performance Ametek 115923 motor than it ever did when it had the standard Ametek 116311 motor

I'm still using the straight suction metal rug tool that came with the Compact while I wait for the PN motor to arrive (its a Rainbow PN motor [R2800] with thick shaft)

 

[anthony]

i once fitted a

1600 watt motor into a Hoover Constelation .Whilst the suction was great the dam thing would only float for a few seconds before it started to hover then flip over on its side .I temporarily stopped this by putting some lead weights inside

 

[rowdy141]

A modded Hoover Constellation could race that Electrlux hot-rod!

 

[bikerray]

Pin stripes and racing slicks?

 

[rugsucker]

Pin stripes and larger rear wheels--

--were seen on Eureka of the early 70s(Empress II ?).

 

[lesinutah]

Hey

If you take air out of tires leaving half full it helps grip off the line quicker. It could be difference of winning and losing.
Les

 

[kirbyclassiciii]

ABCVacPlacentia

Ted,

Here is a souped-up Royal 801 from the 1960s that now has a 7.0 amp motor...
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Royal-Vacu...kqF7PdY0eNSWgTNV4ahP4j01fH03XXTdDT1yFM8DsD-M4

~Ben