phaeton
Well-known member
Hello All
I did bid on and won the poor little, not so little, Hoover Model 28 “Special” that was on eBay a few weeks back. I have no idea what draws me or anyone to a Hoover 28. I went from having none for 30 plus years to having 3 in this year and a Hoover Model 305 which unfortunately I need a bottom plate with the belt protector, did I just hear someone say; good luck finding that buddy.
Well back to the 28 Special. As you can see it came in a box well packed. I unpacked it and proceeded to clean it up. I plugged it in and the motor sounded great. The motor base was badly chipped buy the name plate as well as the “Special” name plate being all bent up. I had 2 Hoover 28 motors so I preceded to take one apart a removed the name plate from the base that said Hoover and replaced motor base only of the Special. I reshaped the Special name plate and reinstalled it with the rivets that I had removed. I also swapped out the lower bearing with the original Special lower bearing. I also used the Special’s fields as they were near perfect like the lower bearing. I lubed the brush-roll bearings and the 28 Special runs great. The factory rebuilt it in July of 1953 as stamped on the base by the back wheels. The Serial Number is 2829178 which means it would have a metal or aluminum hood. I do have questions about the hood as it is metal and not aluminum which makes me think it could be a 27 hood the factory replaced it with. I have never handled a 27 so I don’t know if the 27 had a metal hood, aluminum hood or Bakelite hood.
Fortunately, or unfortunately the original type cord end that said Hoover blew off in my fingers the second time I plugged it in. So it could be available to be used as a pendent or a single cuff link now.
I don’t know if anyone out there cares much about such thing as I talk about and I cannot believe any of the younger people care at all as they are off on to Hoover Decades, new Kirby Models, Fantom or Fantom type vacuums, and this is as it should be. And good luck to all finding machines they like.
Thank you for looking,
Pete
I did bid on and won the poor little, not so little, Hoover Model 28 “Special” that was on eBay a few weeks back. I have no idea what draws me or anyone to a Hoover 28. I went from having none for 30 plus years to having 3 in this year and a Hoover Model 305 which unfortunately I need a bottom plate with the belt protector, did I just hear someone say; good luck finding that buddy.
Well back to the 28 Special. As you can see it came in a box well packed. I unpacked it and proceeded to clean it up. I plugged it in and the motor sounded great. The motor base was badly chipped buy the name plate as well as the “Special” name plate being all bent up. I had 2 Hoover 28 motors so I preceded to take one apart a removed the name plate from the base that said Hoover and replaced motor base only of the Special. I reshaped the Special name plate and reinstalled it with the rivets that I had removed. I also swapped out the lower bearing with the original Special lower bearing. I also used the Special’s fields as they were near perfect like the lower bearing. I lubed the brush-roll bearings and the 28 Special runs great. The factory rebuilt it in July of 1953 as stamped on the base by the back wheels. The Serial Number is 2829178 which means it would have a metal or aluminum hood. I do have questions about the hood as it is metal and not aluminum which makes me think it could be a 27 hood the factory replaced it with. I have never handled a 27 so I don’t know if the 27 had a metal hood, aluminum hood or Bakelite hood.
Fortunately, or unfortunately the original type cord end that said Hoover blew off in my fingers the second time I plugged it in. So it could be available to be used as a pendent or a single cuff link now.
I don’t know if anyone out there cares much about such thing as I talk about and I cannot believe any of the younger people care at all as they are off on to Hoover Decades, new Kirby Models, Fantom or Fantom type vacuums, and this is as it should be. And good luck to all finding machines they like.
Thank you for looking,
Pete
