Information on the Turbopower 1000/2/3 please!

[jmurray01]

Am I the only one who is highly doubting this "Mick" was born in 1969 and not perhaps 1999 ?

Please stop posting that link, and I've reported your message.

 

[vintagerepairer]

Well, I can't say that I had given it any thought, no. But then I'm at that point in life where I take everything at face value. And to be fair, he obviously has very good taste in films.

 

[hoovermanmick]

hoover turbopower

i dont no why it keeps doin it or our to turn it of this be the last time i use this site

http://[email protected],uk

 

[jmurray01]

But not good taste in friendliness.

 

[vintagerepairer]

Well, there's a lot of that in any walk of life.

 

[baglessball]

I was brought up around turbopowers! 1,2 and I have a 3!

The permabag was a bit naff. Ok of you brushed out and washed it regularly, which was a messy job. If not the fine dust that stayed stuck to the box when you emptied it chocked te suction.My Aunty had the green turbo 1000. She had it many years, which was rare as she is REALLY heavy handed. But that machine was a workhorse. I remember telling her that you could use bags in the machine and her going straight out to pick some up.

I love the noise the noise and smell of these machines. I try not I collect vacuums, but struggle to part with my turbo 3. (which had a permabag when I recieved it, but that went straight in the bin)

I always really liked the look of the grey/orange machine (I can never find one)

 

[jmurray01]

There was never a green TP1000, just two shades of blue.

 

[vintagerepairer]

Jmurray, I think you need to have a look at message 109 in this thread. You'll see a table which mentions the green Turbopower 1000.

 

[turbo500]

There was never a green TP1000, just two shades of blue

yes there was, James S has one. I'll get him to post a pic.

 

[james]

There most deffently WAS a green Turbopower 1000.
Pictured on the left a U2812, in blue, and on the right, a U2814, in GREEN.

Will get better pics this weekend if I have time.

 

[jmurray01]

Well I didn't know that!

I thought the only 1000's there were was the U2812 and the U2814 - Both of which I thought where blue.

So many replies, hard to memorise them all! Ha ha.

 

[james]

Also check reply number 36, 37 etcc.
Turbpower 1000, quite obviously a very dark metalic green

 

[vintagerepairer]

Well if anyone thinks I've memorised them, I am afaid I am about to disapoint. I just made sure I read the comments closely before I posted.

 

[baglessball]

I remember these 2 machines fondly!

The green one ended up with a crack from top to bottom on the bag door!

 

[dysonmark]

hoover turbopower

hi to all you that i hav afended iam very very sorry. iam sure i hav seen a tropcal green turbopower 3 with autosense in the littlewoods extra cat autum n winter cat 1996 i think there was the yellow auto sense and a basic turbo power 2 in bright orange as well

 

[kirbymodel2c]

Hi

Hi Mark. Who have you offended? Isn't this your 1st post on this thread?

James)

 

[jmurray01]

That is what I thought James.

 

[juniorsenior]

Its that other guy who you lot were saying about him posting that duff link, his name is different but profile is the same.

 

[juniorsenior]

Oops scrub that last one about the profiles being the same. but i till think its the same guy.

 

[jmurray01]

I don't think so... He says on his current profile he is called Mark and on the last he said he was called Michael/Mick.

 

[juniorsenior]

I know thats why i posted the second message. I still think its the same guy though.

 

[turbo500]

I still think its the same guy though

The date of birth, location and collection are pretty much identical - it's only the name that's different

 

[juniorsenior]

Yeah thats what i thought

 

[jmurray01]

Hmm... Something is afoot!

Time for the Vacuum Land investigators to... Well - Investigate!

 

[hoovermanmick]

hoover turbopower 2/3

hi iam very sorry if i have afened any body do to postin the links on here i didt no you didt need your email address to post messages i will say it a gain sorry turbomaster84@vintagerepairers also james brown

 

[vintagerepairer]

Hello well no need to apologise to me at all. I'm not offended by anything. But thanks.

 

[rolls_rapide]

Turbopower 2

There was indeed a grey basic Turbopower 2 with Permabag as standard. I seem to remember it was a bit darker in colour than the standard "Autosense" model. Apparently purchased via a home-shopping catalogue.

It belonged to a work colleague, who then got laminated floors, and passed it on to me. I cleaned it up and passed it on to another colleague who's existing hoover packed in.

I had a Turbopower 2 Autosense, with piston bag-check indicator. The piston wasn't any real use, and dust eventually clogged the mechanism. My brother then had it for a while.

My mum still has the Turbopower 3 with Autosense (lagoon green metallic, no permabag). She used the tools a lot. The constant flexing of the bag door eventually weakened it. It split several inches above and below the decal that replaced the piston bag-check. Probably the problem was full power with scabbard crevice tool = stressed bag door. Fixed it with Sellotape!.

The activator/agitator is no longer available for this series of machine. Hoover-Candy told me that they tried to source an alternative, but no luck.

I'll bet that had it still been proper "Hoover Ltd", the part would probably still be obtainable.

 

[vintagerepairer]

Hi, re: the grey 'basic' turbopower with permabag, I can well believe the one our Co-Op had was originally the home-shopping exclusive model as the Co-Ops always seem to have the most random things on special. The store I saw them in only had them for a few weeks.

 

[jmurray01]

I was just about to say sorry for what I said and I'm glad you got it sorted hoovermanmick, but then I got this personal message on my YouTube account:

"it was a gen mistake the links i was postin i did not no u could post a message with out using your email so stop slag me off to your boyfriends you little grass"

 

[turbopowerpaul]

Another small snippet of Turbo2, 1000 and 3 history, in the form of a seperately purchased Permabag box.
One or two of these were available on ebay last year, with an asking price of £45 a piece! Quite steep when you condsider the age of them and the cleaners, plus the fact that you could probably acquire 3 actual cleaners for the price of a permabag box!

Paul