Hoover junior U1012

[jmurray01]

I see Junior tools often when I'm metaphorically flicking through the pages of eBay, some of which sell on auctions for quite a low price, so keep an eye out, but make sure you don't lose it down the back of the sofa, I did that once...

If you want the full story, the book is due to be released soon, entitled "Aye, that's my eye"...

Anyway, enough about me.

 

[gottahaveahoove]

I finally got a set of these tools

I like them.

 

[uksausage]

my daily driver

my daily driver its one of the best with 5 cats and a dog and yhis is the same model i grew up with i had been after one for years and manageded to get two for £1.00 bot in exellent condition like they hadnt been used the other one i gave to my neighbours daughter who crippled with artheritus she said its the best vacuum she has in years
i love these juniors
xxx

 

[alexhoovers94]

I love the junior too!!


I know a few people who hate the juniors but I don't they they are such greay little vacuums, yes I know the handle and cord are a bit short but I think with overall performance makes up for it to be honest.

 

[sebo_fan]

Alex - also check Gumtree! I located a fantastic set of tools one year from someone down South who eventually sold the boxed tools to me with additional postage costs.

 

[jmurray01]

On the Junior subject I'm planning on buying one later this year, but I think it'll be the old metal style one. Who knows though, if I see a later model in good condition I may be tempted.

 

[alexhoovers94]

Sebo_fan, I did have a look on gumtree but there was not much, I suppose there are always car boot sales I could go to, you know I have never ever been to a carboot before, lol, I heard they sell stuff there pretty cheap.

Jammie, the vintage junior do not use paper bags like the 60's and 70's ones do, though like you say, the vintage ones are all metal construction and not plastic, however the 60's, 70's and 80's junior are still very robust and very effective, VERY!

 

[alexhoovers94]

Oh and by the way, does anyone know why the zip doesn't

 

[jmurray01]

That is perfectly normal.

The outer bag for my 1977 HOOVER Senior Ranger doesn't zip all the way to the bottom either.

It won't affect the Vacuum Cleaner at all.

 

[alexhoovers94]

That is good to know, thanks.
by the way jammie do you have msn?

 

[jmurray01]

Not a problem.

Yes, I do have MSN. The email address is in my profile (now that the bug was fixed by the administrators).

 

[alexhoovers94]

I have just made a video of this, if anyone is interested.



Here is a link to my video.

 

[portable]

<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: medium;">Wow, Alex, you did a great job. <span style="font-size: medium;">It looks so much better. </span>Thanks for the video, too. It was fun to see the Junior in action.  - J </span>

 

[midcenturyfan]

Very nice machine. I recently bought one that is virtually identical.

 

[alexhoovers94]

Your welcome, glad you enjoyed

 

[sebo_fan]

re: Old Cloth Bags

Actually, cloth bags still exist - you get them in a lot of Electrolux bagged cylinder vacs, Morphy Richards & Goblin bagged cylinders. In the 1990's I had a Telios soft bag. Hoover called them "SMS" bags but they soon because a standard name used by other brands. They're a good idea in theory when you run out of paper dust bags and usually lose 0.5 litre of capacity compared to the paper dust bags.

 

[anthony]

the junior

most of my family have had juniors in my opinion they are bomb proof my mums junior [white and grey around 1963]stood behind the front door permenantly plugged in with enough flex to go all round the ground floor [three bed semi] also up the stairs and all bedrooms ti would not be emptied until its bag was bulging sometimes draging on the floor even then the paper bag would be put back on and used over and over again till it was completely worn out . the junior had a hard life in use daily in a house with four kids it would be used at least four times a day usually after meals in the dinning room the flex never wound around the cleats just coiled up and thrown over the handle coming to rest on top of the bag and then wheeled back to its home behind the front door bumping over every room door step on the way .yes i know your all horified but thats how vacs were and still are treated although new ones cant take to much rough treatment i remember my mum banging the hoover junior into the fireplace once two of the tiles fell of can you imagine what would happen if you did that with one of todays plastic things .the junior now lives with me and in its retirement it has had a complete overhaul and a bath and shares a nice warm cupboard with my grans hoover 612 it pops out ocasionaly but never when my mum is visiting

 

[alexhoovers94]

Wow that junior had a hard life, just shows the quality of those old hoovers to hold up all these years, I love them

 

[alexhoovers94]

I am not sure if anyone knew, but I had an incident with this junior, well to cut a long story short, I smashed a hole in the front of it.
But with thanks to Chris "Turbo500" he managed to find me a new cover plate so here it is, back to it's 'ol' self.

 

[super-sweeper]

"Smashed a hole in it"

.....And how did you accomplish THAT?