Hoover junior U1012

[vintagerepairer]

They were not much more than 6 meters if they were. I don't have figures to hand, but the leads were no longer than any other. My default length when replacing a flex was 7 metres, plus whatever it took to get the flex from where it protruded from the cleaner, to where it was wired in, which on cleaners like the Junior was usually another meter more. If a cleaner had a longer lead, be it from manufactuer or from customer intervention, I would replicate that length. When reconditioning cleaners to sell in the shop, I always put 7 meters on an upright and 6 on a cylinder.

 

[turbomaster1984]

HAVING JUST CHECKED THE lUX 500 FLEX AGAINST the juniors it is indeed 7.5 metres against the juniors 6m,


However I dont think 1 metre or so difference amounted to much in terms of features etc. Just Lux being on the generous side I suppose. Had it of been a feature I would of thought they would of gone the whole hog and upped it to 10 or more metres.

 

[turbomaster1984]

and for you nosey lot....

 

[jmurray01]

Yes, I thought it was around 1.5 metres longer. It may not seem like much, but it is just the extra wee bit that helps get to the ends of the rooms in my house.

One Vacuum Cleaner which has an outstanding length of flex is my 2007 Numatic Henry.

I can plug him in upstairs and go all the way downstairs and out my back door (I did so the other day to vacuum the shed) without even unplugging it from the landing socket. Amazing.

 

[turbomaster1984]

more

 

[vintagerepairer]

Ah, well in that case I will happily stand corrected. I know 9 meter cords or thereabouts for those with cleaners and tape-measures to hand became a bit of a selling point for Hoover and Electrolux, though the earlier Dyson cleaners had flexes which came quite a bit shorter than other brands in the same price bracket.

 

[turbo500]

"It was always really messy with the bottom fil style because even if you pulled the bag off with a tight grip grit and dust always fell out onto the floor"

Have you never thought of turning the cleaner upside down to empty it to avoid this happening?

 

[vintagerepairer]

During the 1980's, Electrolux screened a television commercial showing someone struggling to remove a bottom-fill dust bag from a genric cleaner. A Hoover Senior to anyone in the know, but unbranded for TV, naturally. Then they showed someone not struggling to fit a bag to an Electrolux Twin Turbo.

 

[turbomaster1984]

Best way to change the bag in a bottom fill senior or junior is to place it on a stool and pull the bag out of the machine and lower it to below the machine. The bellows are bendy enough. Thus one now has all the muck in the bag and not there to spill out.

 

[alexhoovers94]

Wow you have quite a collection there turbomaster1984 (i think you are called Rob) I have a little over 12 but should get a nice colloection going soon.
I think my mum had one of those turbopower 1 freedom totalsystem she got it new in 1987 when she bought the house, god I love the turbopowers!

 

[jmurray01]

That would have been a very good advert. I'll have to search for it on YouTube tomorrow morning.

I'd say the 500/Twin Turbo range were the easiest to fit bags to out of any upright new or old.

 

[turbomaster1984]

what you see there is only a SMALL selection of our collection. 300 odd vacs now. quite incredible for 5 years of collecting

 

[vintagerepairer]

There is an advert on youtube for the Electrolyx 612 and I remember this one well. Interestingly, when the woman pushes the cleaner forward, the main body nudges too far forward very slightly. Continually doing this, and it was so very easily done, even in the advert, is what caused a good deal of the 612 machines to fall forward on themselves permanently, as some of the plastic which prevented it from doing such would snap off. This could occur very quickly depending on how heavy-handed the user was. Electrolux took a long time to modify this fault, I don't know why, but maybe it was because they were already rectifying other problems this cleaner had.

 

[sebo_fan]

I had a U1012 too, but the handle spine on it was very weak, much prefer the U1104, but still this was one of the rarer Juniors you could buy that had the top fill bag.

 

[twocvbloke]

I couldn't stand the U1104 I had, yeah it worked well and was in decent shape bar a few gouges and cracks in the plastics, but it was that dual-purpose handle-release-come-power-switch that really got on my nerves, pressing it to release the handle to lower it to the floor for under-furniture cleaning and you switch the thing off, or if you stop to move something and the handle locks in the upright position and releasing it again to continue and, yep, powers off, really irritated me, which is why I sold it off, the simplicity had been taken away, and it's simplicity that I like...

Changing bags in the older style Hoover Juniors and seniors though, yeah, it's a messy business, but that's why they fitted them with quick-release things, so you unclip or unscrew the bag retainers, and take off the whole assembly to flip it over and remove the bags in the hopes that you don't spill anything, which isn't an easy task... :&#92

I'm surprised they stuck with the open-ended bag for so long, given the difficulties it caused...

 

[gottahaveahoove]

VERY NICE collection there

Someday, I'd like to acquire a nice "senior'. I have a junior and sevreal big commercials, but it would be nice to have a Senior from 'across the pond'.

 

[vacbear58]

Vac Collection & Ad

Rob

302 vacuums actually as there are two still waiting chez moi for you.

Looking at the Lux ad, is the other cleaner a Hotpoint Swallow? Looks a bit like one - very much sought after now

Al

 

[jmurray01]

Ah yes, the typical "over push" as I call it.

I see people do that every day and even used to do it myself before I started collecting Vacuum Cleaners.

These days my problem is being so gentle that it doesn't even click and ends up falling down!

 

[Jakesvacs]

Thats the constellation my great gran had,been after one for years! Good to see one again though!

 

[rolls_rapide]

Hoover Junior cloth inner bags

They were not Hoover. Very probably purchased from the Classified adverts in the Saturday Daily Express, which used to carry an advert for cloth bags for popular machines.

One of the advert's sales lines went something like: "save £££s on paper bags".

My gran bought one, but she went back to paper bags.