Hoover U7008 restoration project

[ryry_87]

I was given this Hoover U7008 Commercial by a friend recently, as you can see it was in a bit of a sorry state. But I absolutely LOVE these amazing cleaners so decided to take it on. The original handle had been crushed by a vehicle of some sort but we managed to find a brand new new old stock one. The fan is broken and the baseplate is missing too..

 

[ryry_87]

dirty...

 

[ryry_87]

And heres how it looks after a bit of elbow grease...

 

[ryry_87]

Not perfect but much better than before...

 

[ryry_87]

The old girls together, rics one and mine.

 

[jmurray01]

I've never seen that model before, but it looks similar to the one you had but sold...

 

[vacumaniac]

Those look pretty spiffy! Good work!!!

 

[ryry_87]

thanks! its getting there, still needs a bit of work but sooo worth saving! they're fantastic

 

[tommymilan]

it's an amazing beauty!
I love all of your videos as well! Nice collection and nice taste!
tommy

 

[goadie12]

Wow that looks very good nice job. Zach

 

[gottahaveahoove]

Excellent!

Kudos to YOU.
John.

 

[ned_flanders]

I think that's my favorite of the vacs I've seen in your collection I definitely agree that it's worth saving. Nice job.

 

[ryry_87]

cheers guys, always good to get compliments! I thought you might like this one tommy the good thing about restoring my friends vacs is that I get the opportunity to do videos of a lot of interesting ones as well as my own collection. I've posted the link to my youtube channel below for those of you who haven't visited yet.

http://www.youtube.com/user/U5096/videos

 

[rutger]

Hi

In what ways ryry do these differ from a conventional domestic Hoover?

Apologies if it's been discussed before but I was just curious as to what the actual differences are on these apart from the (cool) looks.

Cheers
Dave

 

[ryry_87]

I think motor and brushroll wise, they're pretty much identical to the domestic Senior. I think the fan may have been bigger though? If anything, I think the U7008 had a slightly lower wattage motor. However the U7008 was a much much much more robust cleaner. It was almost entirely made of metal. It also had a huge shake out bag which I spose was better suited to commercial use.

 

[paulc]

Ry

Well done, I do love those commercial Hoovers! A friend of my Aunt had one as her daily driver, I loved it and always wanted on of my own.

P.S. Just been looking through your youtube vids, I had a similar model LG upright I got from Comet for a steal at £99. Was a great cleaner, a bit heavy but impressive for a bagless cleaner.

 

[jmurray01]

Yes a shake out bag would probably be best for commercial use where filtration isn't the number one concern, as it often is with domestic homes.

Still, I wouldn't swap it for a paper bag set up, but I'd much prefer it to a bagless cleaner, so it'd be a good half way house for me.

 

[ryry_87]

Paul - yeh the LG wasn't bad, i've always been a fan of bagless LG's. My mum and dad have still got my LG Cyking Sport, It's a 2003 model. I rescued it from the tip in 2006 and it's still going strong now. I used to have a big Cyking too, that was a monster, it even had a built in ioniser and a silver nano filter lol

Jamie - it's not not difficult to convert a shake out bag to use paper bags. My u7008 has the fill tube and flange from a 638 Senior. Rics one just has a Sebo bag pushed over the original flange.