Information on the Turbopower 1000/2/3 please!

[beko1987]

I thought I would bring this back from the archive

As I have just spent half an hour reading it! Never been too up on Turbopower 2's to be honest. I've always had a few, currently at home I have:

U2188 (1100w Red) (£10 with exploded bearings)
U2464 Autosense (£Free)
U2106 (£9.99 with paperwork from Ebay)

And they were very nice. I'm using the U2106 this month actually! ()

However, I bought 6 more at the weekend for £50! One of them was a U2464, and as I already have a very nice one of those I gave it to someone who I know wanted one, so I have 5 left!

They are:

U2090 from 1998 in Yellow
U2460 from 1996 in Red
U2462 from 1994 (and with a split bag door sadly) in Blue
A Turbopower 3 U2876 from 1995 in Red
A Turbopower 1000 U2814 from 1993 in Blue.

All work very well, I've filmed all of them, and put the first one live already! - . As you can see from the second picture the boot of my car is still full of machines, so it will be a busy week! Must get some cleaners I don't want as much gone so I don't have to keep them in my mums loft!

So I now own 8 Turbopower 2 Machines! Damn seems I have an impromptu TP2 collection going!

 

[turbo500]

with a split bag door

Oh how I love Paul's Turbopower threads!! Such a handy resource, I'm always referring back to them.

The bag doors were always a weak point on the early TP2's, but they were reinforced on later models.

It's a shame really as performance wise, the U2462 is the best model they ever did. The activator brushroll in the higher powered models didn't work so great as it spun too fast to really groom the carpet like the TP1/800w TP2's. The U2462 also didn't have the bloody stupid awful autosense feature which never worked properly!

 

[beko1987]

I remember when I was younger, the estate agents that my dad ran had a TP2 in blue (probably the same model but with the piston bag full indicator) with a split door, it had tape over it!

I'll glue it up and possibly put some magic tape over it too just to re-inforce it. When you turn it on you can see it being sucked inwards, although it has re-inforcement inside as they all do. Maybe it's just been unlucky!

 

[alexhoovers94]

Very Nice Sam, I use to have a "huge" Turbopower 2 collection.

I probably have about the same you have now Sam.

I am not certain but I may possibly have a U2462 bag door spare somewhere.

Here is my favourite Turbopower 2...My early 1992 piston bag check indicator model.

 

[alexhoovers94]

Here was my Turbopower 2 collection for a couple of years ago, I have about half that now.

 

[jake1234]

Turbopower 2/3/1000 reproduction

Interesting topic- bringing old models back into reproduction. But I think its safe to say the turbopower 2/3/1000 will never come back into production even if Hoover wanted to. And thats because they sold the rights to it. They sold the turbopower 2 patents and mouldings onto dirt devil I think who then carried on producing a budget turbopower 2 model under there own brand. I think even after dirt devil finished with it they passed it on to JMB. So- as far as bringing the Turbopower 2 back, its a brilliant idea and a brilliant machine, but Hoover simply do not own the rights to it and therefore cannot produce it. Theres plent of other models they could bring back though.

 

[turbo500]

RE: JMB

Just for info regarding the JMB brand. This was never a brand in its own right, they were just rebadged Dirt Devil’s exclusive for Littlewoods-Index.

 

[jake1234]

JMB

Thanks Turbo500, I didnt know that. I know littlewoods is online only now and they have no highstreet shops left but I dont think they even sell anything like that now. No vacuum cleaners anyway. Think its all mainly clothes these days. When there were actual shops on the highstreet I think they sold a lot more household items then. They are sadly missed along with British Home Stores.

 

[turbo500]

Jake, Littlewoods the shop never sold electricals, it was very much like BHS. Littlewoods the catalogue however did. As did Index which was a catalogue collection service like Argos.

 

[rdwdcp]

well i was walking around my neighbourhood/estate and there was a man vacuuming his car with a hoover turbo power 2 i didnt know what vacuum it was at first and when the man stopped using it for a minute i had a quick closer look at the vacuum and it said hoover turbopower 2 1200w on the vacuum. when the man was using it i thought to my self that vacuum doesn't sound healthy! i dont know if its suppose to sound like that but I don't know!

 

[caf190197]

Very late to the conversation with this one but… Could this be the missing TP3 U2882? I found this listing on gumtree earlier and the rating sticker indicates it’s a U2882… however it doesn’t have the autosense feature that I presumed it would have. I thought for a minute possibly the autosense panel could have been changed to just a simple on off switch which is entirely possible but then looking at the bag door the only features it lists is permabag system 2, stair cleaning and 1000watts. I also thought perhaps the autosense panel could have been changed and they rubbed off the autosense writing from the bag door but it’s usually listed somewhere in the middle of all those things and there’s no gap for where it would have been written before being rubbed off…