Hoover Service Manual

[hoovercelebrity]

<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">So, Robert started a new website -- Automatic Ephemera.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>He started a thread about it here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">He's been scanning anything he can get his hands on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I made sure to have him scan this Hoover Service Manual, as I think it's one of the quintessensial service documents that should be in every collector's library.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Robert has scanned it at a high-resolution, cleaned up each page with Photoshop, and turned it into a searchable PDF document.  It's 107 pages long and a 61MB file.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>He just posted it today.</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">To anyone who works on their vintage Hoovers, wants to work on their Hoovers... even those who don't work on the machines and just want to soak up information; this is a must have document.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  And it's now electronic.  </span>It's what I followed line by line the first few times I took apart a Constellation... and I still reference this book often when working on machines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  There are </span>general service instruction of the Coffee-Can Hoovers (machines all the way back to 1919), the beautiful machines of the 30s, 40s, 50s, Tanks, Convertibles, Constellations, Polishers, Floor Washer, Pixie… Topics include:  basic troubleshooting, how to service agitators, step by step motor disassembly, wiring diagrams, etc… Lots and lots of great information.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Enjoy!</span></p>

 

[hoovercelebrity]

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">This is also, an incredibly whimsical document.   Some really cute illustrations/graphics throughout!</span>

 

[portable]

<span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Fred -</span>


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<span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">I notice that they use the term "lend you this Handbook....".  Were they given to service people/dealers and expected them to RETURN them to the Company? Why in the world would they make THAT assumption?</span>


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<span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Somewhat related: I noticed yesterday that I have one (minus instructions, etc.) with schematics that include a washer, refrigerator, irons, toasters, etc....</span>

 

[kloveland]

Thanks so much!

I'm having a hay day just looking through the service guide.

 

[super-sweeper]

Do you have to download the manual in order to read it?

-Alex.

 

[unimatic1140]

Do you have to download the manual in order to read it?

Hi Alex, yes you do have to download the manual to read or print the document.

 

[pnluxconvlvr]

Thank you!

Awesome information! I almost took over a Hoover store years ago and they closed it before I had the chance. Would have loved it.

 

[gsheen]

Great absolutely love it 

 

[pnluxconvlvr]

Amazing!

These manuals and brochures are absolutely amazing! I learned today the exact color name of all the Maytag appliances I grew up with : " Spanish Avacado " !

 

[unimatic1140]

Thanks Tyler, I'm glad you like the Ephemera. It's a lot of work doing all this, but in the end it will be worth it.

Question: Are there particular things you guys here on the vacuum side of the family might like to see uploaded to Automatic Ephemera and made available for download?

 

[portable]

<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: medium;">If there are any advertising brochures, that would be great. By that I mean those pamphlets that department stores and vacuum dealers used to mail out to people. They usually have lots of info in them about model numbers, features, etc.</span>


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<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: medium;">Also....Robert, are there any plans to ever scan your Sears catalogues? Is it possible to duplicate those images? The ones I copied in the 80's (that were from the 20's through the 40's) were very bad copies and are on that funny electrostatic paper, and they are now starting to "fade".</span>


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<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: medium;">John L.</span>

 

[seamusuk]

Fantastic!!

Although its a US manual a lot of info especially for the older models is relevant to the UK. Fascinating

Seamus

 

[unimatic1140]

Hi John, yes at some point I do want to scan the Sears Catalogs. The problem is to scan them properly and get a high quality image, I have to take the catalogs apart. So I'm hesitant to do that to the catalog collection quite yet, but eventually I will give in a start that process.

We don't have a ton of vintage vacuum sales literature, but I certainly will post it as I find it.

 

[pnluxconvlvr]

AWESOME job scanning Robert !

The quality of the scans and your attention to detail is commended and appreciated !

 

[alexb1186]

Robert, Sears actually microfilmed all of their catalogs and several libraries throughout the country have the collection, and according to their website UMN-Twin Cities carries it, so I'd definitely give them a try.

 

[portable]

<span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Alex,</span>


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<span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">If they're anything like the quality of the 'fiche copies at the San Francisco library, the quality of the images were horrible, and in many cases were dark and unreadable. I wonder if some of the libraries received better microfiche images than others. </span>