Hoover constellation

[hooverhoover98]

Hello all, i am a new user and those on Automaticwasher.org know me as AEG-OKO-CARAT. i have recently got a hoover constellation in yellow from ebay and it has a couple of issues,
1: the white paint on the top of it needs touching up
2:some of the yellow paint also needs touching up
3: it needs a new plug with pin-protection (thoses black pieces on the 2 lower pins on the plug)
other than needing a wipe down and a bag and new filter it works, and she floats very well (except on think piled carpets). anyway some pictures for you to see
Tom
P.S i also collect desk fans too if you havent seen them in the pics lol

 

[hooverhoover98]

pic 2
note: the floor head isnt an original

 

[hooverhoover98]

the inside of her
also, that purple thing is a lavendar scented vacuum freshener, it stank like dog when i got her this morning

 

[gottahaveahoove]

Nice Connie!

If you turned on all of those fans, you'd have a Windtunnel, too. Sorry, it was too easy. We didn't have color (or) colour combos like that "over here".

 

[hooverhoover98]

Really?
oh on another note, when did they re-relese the constellation models in the UK and US?

 

[gottahaveahoove]

It was done over here when HOOVER

was "a division of Maytag". That ended in 2007, just before the 100th anniversary. You'll see some of them labled "Maytag satellite". Sad, really.

 

[gottahaveahoove]

These were some of the very best

of them.

 

[hooverhoover98]

wow!

 

[vacbear58]

Yellow Connie

This is the final colour variation of the original Connie from the early 1980s, if you can post the serial number we can date it for you.

Al

 

[hooverhoover98]

hi Al
the serial number is: 086700900684
Tom

 

[vacbear58]

If I read the number right

It was built in September 1980

Al

 

[hooverhoover98]

wow
i orderd bags and a filter, as soon as those arrive i can tell you what the cleaning performance is like
Tom

 

[hooverhoover98]

I used it for the first time today, i must say that it is better than a dyson! It brings the pile of the carpet up beautifuly and it cleans well
Tom

 

[jmurray01]

"If you turned on all of those fans, you'd have a Windtunnel, too." Ha ha ha!

Very nice Constellation! It's good to see somebody else other than me uses those Vacuum Freshener tabs.

 

[jmurray01]

"I used it for the first time today, i must say that it is better than a dyson!" Of course it is, it is Bagged and we all know Bagged is better than Bagless! Of course there will always be lunatics that disagree, ha ha!