Hoover celebrity 3111

[tommymilan]

Hello gus, I've just found a vacuum cleaner that I had never found before in italy, the wonderful Celebrity S 3111, the only wheeled model that we had here for a while.
A men was selling it on a second-hand newspaper, I called him and I got it
for 35 euro.
It is in very good conditions, with all the tools and owner's manual.
I'm very happy!
tommy

 

[tommymilan]

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[tommymilan]

what about the 3 speeds?

hello, I've discovered that the tree buttons that adjust the suction of the vacuum cleaner is not an electronic device, but just a thing that directs airflow out of the suction hose...there's a switch at the end of the hose handle, but it doesn't seem to work.
Any idea about how to fix it?
Thanx in advance, tommy.

 

[myhooverco]

Tommy...

I am guessing that the switch at the end of the hose is a way to turn on the machine. It is pneumatic and probably clogged in some way. Our first Celebrity machines did not offer an electric hose so this was a way to offer this convenience to the customers. Hoover had the on/off switch on a Constellation in around 1960 with disastrous results with the electric hose. They went for a nonelectric alternative with the Celebrity. In 1975, they debuted the powernozzle so also the electric hose with much better results. I bet you will find that the switch on the hose is a switch for the machine but it is not electric. Let me know what you find out.

--Tom

 

[vintagehoover]

I'm curious - I've seen pics of the Constellation with the electric hose; what was 'disasterous' about it??

 

[constellation86]

That's a very pretty blue. A nice find.
Is it very powerful? I have a QS model that has more power than any other vacuum I have used. I just wish I could find high filtration H bags.
Nicholas

 

[myhooverco]

It just did not work correctly and some users received a shock...most were retrofitted with a simple toggle switch drilled into the unit to turn it on and off. I guess that is why they dropped the power nozzle program for this series of canisters.

--Tom

 

[constellation86]

Connie power nozzles

I didn't know Hoover was planing on using power nozzles with the Constellation. I wondered why they waited so long to make their own after the first power nozzles came out in the 50's. Do you know any more about the program?
Nicholas

 

[compactc9]

I have a brown Celebrity II Estate with that same hose/switch setup. I had so take the handle end of the hose apart and clean the thing in there that makes the air pressure, but now it works perfectly.

 

[tommymilan]

Hello, I will try to clean it too, now it works when the cleaner is on to turn it off, but the pump doesn't make enough pressure to turn the switch on.
tommy