HOOVER PurePower U330 001

[hoovermad]

Afternoon all,I'm new to the Vacuumland forums,but i've been on the Automaticwasher forum for a couple of years,for anyone that might know me from there it's Neil(electradeluxe)

I've got a Hoover Purepower 1300w,My mum let me take it with me when i moved over to Blackpool as it was too heavy for her to manage up and down the stairs,We bought it new in summer 2000 and it's still going strong,a fantastic machine in my opinion,

But a couple of years back,the release pedal started to weaken and eventually it snapped,

I'm planning to replace all the filters as they've never been changed,just washed,but i plan to replace the release pedal too so it can stand up without falling over,so i wanted to ask if this task is going to be easy or is it a bit of a fiddly job,the part is only cheap so i might aswell give it a bit of TLC,any tips or advice would be much appreciated

Thanks

Neil

 

[jmurray01]

It's good to see you want to keep it going, rather than replacing it, even if it is a Purepower...

Replacing the release pedal (which is a common weak part of the Purepower, even today - Why haven't HOOVER sorted it yet!?) is quite a fiddly job I believe, but can be done with some patience.

As for new filters, that's a very good idea after 12 years, quite frankly I'm surprised they are still in one piece after that long, ha ha!

I replace the filters in my 1994 HOOVER Turbopower (the Purepower's predecessor) every couple of years, cleaning them after every bag change.

 

[hoovermad]

the filter change is long overdue,the carbon filter is black,i've seen the kits on sale and it's not expensive,they've just been forgotten about,

have you any idea how i'd go about replacing the pedal? do i do it from the top or the bottom of the machine?

 

[jmurray01]

I'm not 100% sure, but I believe you'd have to take the casing of the cleaner head off.

If the exhaust filter is black, then you're lucky the motor hasn't overheated with lack of air flow.

 

[hoovermad]

i live in an apartment where all the floors are wood,the floors get swept and mopped most days,and once a week i'll get the hoover out just for the sofas and a quick whizz over the floors,

We're moving in 3 weeks and it's carpeted in most rooms,so it'll be used nearly every day,that's why i want to get the pedal done and the filters before we get there

 

[jmurray01]

I see, it'll be in regular use soon then.

I couldn't stand living somewhere with no carpets.

We have laminate in the living room and kitchen which I can't stand, but at least we have carpets upstairs and a large rug in the hall.

 

[hoovermad]

i hated having no carpets in this place,it just never felt warm,

i'm so glad we've got a place with carpet to look forward too,and they're cream coloured so i'll probably be hoovering every day, i might start a new hoover fund incase i burn the purepower out in the first month lol

 

[jmurray01]

Well if the new house is all carpets and no hard flooring, go for a dirty fan!

All of the HOOVER Senior Vacuum Cleaners were dirty fan and cleaned carpets BRILLIANTLY! Much better than any clean fan.

So, my advice is go for one of those, you WILL NOT regret it.

Plus, you will be able to get one for under £50, rather than spending over £100 for a new cleaner which won't clean half as well or last as long.

For illustration, here is my 1977 HOOVER Senior Ranger 400W Dirty Fan which picks up better than any modern cleaner despite having that extremely low wattage motor.

 

[rolls_rapide]

Hoover Purepower release pedal

It might be more than just the pedal: the whole lower chassis of the cleaner head is moulded as a single part, with wheels, agitator, hood and release pedal all fitting into the chassis.

Where the pedal sits, it stresses the plastic chassis, which splits, weakens or cracks, making the pedal not release properly when it is depressed. The user has to wrench the handle back with a customary "CRACK!" sound emanating from the ineffective pedal.

I had a Purepower 1500W that did this. Mum had an 1800W with the same problem.

God only knows why Hoover didn't strengthen that area. Turbopower 2&3 seemed better in that respect.

 

[jmurray01]

I can back Robert up on that, I've never had a problem with the release mechanism on my '94 Turbopower 1000. It doesn't lean, has very little play in it when upright and feels well made.

Unlike the mechanism on my 1993 Philips U800, which is living on borrowed time, as it keeps leaning further and further back every time I see it.

 

[jmurray01]

Calum, sorry! The old memory isn't serving me too well it seems.

 

[hoovermad]

i think i'll just buy new filters then and leave it as it is,i don't want to buy a new pedal if it's not going be any use,
i was quite fancying a dyson dc41 if i was to get a new cleaner,i never thought of buying something reconditioned like the Hoover Senior

Neil

 

[jmurray01]

I know there are Dyson lovers here so I'll refrain from expressing my true feelings, but lets just say I'd rather have a Senior, for many reasons:

Cheaper (by hundreds!),
Better build quality,
Less to go wrong,
I could go on!

I'm sure David (twocvbloke) understands my feelings on that subject...

 

[hoovermad]

i know but there's a slight hitch,they don't make seniors any more,so it might be hard to come by one

 

[sebo_fan]

hoovermad

Don't pay a blind bit of attention to JM. He was only preaching weeks ago about the Clean Fan Hoover Turbopower 2 and 3 series - and you can find them on EBay or Gumtree.

No, if you have a home that has a lot of carpet but not completely carpet and hard floors - hard floors can be damaged by spinning brushes - a fact that JM seems to forget easily - and the Senior has metal bars that can tear up hard floor and vinyl. None of the trad Hoover uprights have beater bars that switch off when the hose is removed or when put in the upright position. So, if you will have to live with hard floors, do yourself a favour and either seek out a compact cylinder vacuum so that you have the best of both worlds. Reserve the Purepower for cleaning carpets only with light dusting with its short hose.

 

[rolls_rapide]

False information

The metal beater bars never caused any damage to vinyl flooring - it was the plastic activator on the Turbopower series that caused damage.

With hard floors, careful adjustment of the cleaner should avoid damage. Also, Hoover fit the modern Purepowers with a narrow diameter, soft brushroll, which can be retro-fitted to older machines, should you be so inclined. Or Parquet floor heads may be purchased as an optional after-market extra.

The Purepower has a long stretchable hose, but admittedly, there is no method of reducing the suction on modern Hoover uprights - unless you start drilling holes on the machine yourself. This makes the machine rather useless for light fabric cleaning.

 

[vintagerepairer]

Have to say I have never promoted the use of uprights on hard floors. I really don't like it. One would only need a small amount of grit to get stuck between the cleaner and a wood floor and that would be it. I have had a number of people bring in upright cleaners which had worn sole plates as a result of being shoved around hard floors. It makes me wonder what the floor looked like. I often used to sell the customer a generic floor tool as part of their service, for them to use on the end of the hose instead of pushing the whole machine over the floor.

 

[jmurray01]

I don't know why anybody thought I was promoting the use of uprights on hard flooring, because I wasn't.

I was advising be bought a HOOVER Senior (with metal beater bars) because he said his new house is CARPETED.

For hard flooring I ALWAYS use one of my cylinders, never an upright, as even if they have a hard flooring height setting they just don't work well.

 

[jmurray01]

"No, if you have a home that has a lot of carpet but not completely carpet and hard floors - hard floors can be damaged by spinning brushes - a fact that JM seems to forget easily - and the Senior has metal bars that can tear up hard floor and vinyl."

No, I'm not forgetting that, I know fine well they have metal beater bars and that they do damage hard flooring - BUT, he said he was moving into a CARPETED house, not a hard floored house.

I did, to clarify, ask him if it had hard flooring too, but with no reply.