Hoover junior U1012
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alexhoovers94
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I have just made a video of this, if anyone is interested.
Here is a link to my video.
Here is a link to my video.
portable
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<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
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Very nice machine. I recently bought one that is virtually identical.
alexhoovers94
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Your welcome, glad you enjoyed 
sebo_fan
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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.
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.
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
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
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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
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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.
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
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"Smashed a hole in it"
.....And how did you accomplish THAT?
.....And how did you accomplish THAT?
alexhoovers94
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well there was a moth flying around my room and it landed on the ceiling, so I got a ribber weight from a knitting machine which is about 1kg and I went to squash it with that, then it moved and I shit myself then dropped the weight and the Junior was underneath it and I heard this rather loud SMASH noise, I thought "CHRIST, do I want to look" so I looked down and saw lots of little orange bits of plastic and there was a huge hole in the cover plate!! I spent an hour, latterly, going "oh my god, I don't believe it"
Lol, never mind, all is fine now, I will take better care of this one!
Lol, never mind, all is fine now, I will take better care of this one!
vacuumlover
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Inside of my bag was worse!
Mine looked fine from the outside but jesus was i wrong lol
The previous owner didnt put the paper bag on properly so there was a gap and this happened
Mine looked fine from the outside but jesus was i wrong lol
The previous owner didnt put the paper bag on properly so there was a gap and this happened
sebo_fan
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AH I REMEMBER that scenario very well. I used to vacuum the soft bag out and then take the whole thing off and chuck it in the washing machine.
alexhoovers94
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God, I forgot about this thread
when mum
eventualy decided to empty the bulging sack on the junior she would usually take it outside take the bag off then switch on and let it have a good blow [blowing dust onto next doors windows] then fit a new bag and belt and then back in the house for a fiew more weeks or till it was full to bursting again i once saw her put an old pillow case on as a temporary fix till she could get to the shop for a pack of bags.Dad would use the machine with the tools fitted to clean the car at least once a week the one day in 1970 i came home from school to find a brand new in the box Hoover Conquest on the floor in the lounge wish i still had that i would be a very happy man
eventualy decided to empty the bulging sack on the junior she would usually take it outside take the bag off then switch on and let it have a good blow [blowing dust onto next doors windows] then fit a new bag and belt and then back in the house for a fiew more weeks or till it was full to bursting again i once saw her put an old pillow case on as a temporary fix till she could get to the shop for a pack of bags.Dad would use the machine with the tools fitted to clean the car at least once a week the one day in 1970 i came home from school to find a brand new in the box Hoover Conquest on the floor in the lounge wish i still had that i would be a very happy man
