Hoover Junior 1346a advice

[hoover_upper]

Dear All,

I have come as a novice to pick your collective brains. I am attempting to repair/service my Gran's Hoover Junior which has stopped working. After checking the fuse and confirming that it wasn't that I have begun to explore the motor. It all needs a good overhaul and so I've purchased some new carbon brushes and front and rear bearings.

The thing that has me stumped is the capacitor. I have attempted to find a replacement online but none of them look like the original! All the ones I have seen have double connectors at one end and what likes like a nut at the other. Mine, however has double connectors on each end!

What I want to know is, how likely is it that the capacitor is the cause of the hoover not working and secondly if I do need to replace it, where can I get a similar one?!

I hope this makes sense - any advice would be much appreciated.

Thank you!

 

[beko1987]

I think the blown capacitor will be your issue! Not really needed nowadays, so you could just remove it altogether!

Good luck with the service, does your gran still use it daily?

Unless your gran still has a TV from the 1970s you won't get any interference. Failing that maplin/rs components should still sell them, you'll just have to match the numbers up.

 

[hoover_upper]

Thanks for the advice beko1987. I shall bypass the capacitor altogether and hopefully it'll do the trick.

She does indeed still use it. She finds it a lot easier to move about as it's so much lighter than any modern vacuum cleaner. The company she bought it from (and used to take it to for servicing etc) closed down a few years ago, so now I am the engineer!

Many thanks again for your help.

 

[beko1987]

Superb! Love hearing about these machines still being in daily use!

It's outlasted the shop then! Keep it serviced and it'll probably outlast you! Especially after a thorough service like that!