Lee's first constellation restoration 867A

[gsheen]

I can remember working on these things all the time for the one company I did work for, love your work relly great.

 

[electrolux~137]

 


 


 


<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: medium;">WOW, what beautiful work!! Excellent job on both machines!!</span>

 

[hotpoint95622]

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Thanks chaps.

Getting in to strife with misses has to be done from time to time, after all it my leisure pursuit and de-stressing medicine, appliance restoration that is, it could have easily been vintage cars and that would cost a lot of money.

 

[gsheen]

I tell my wife at least I'm at home and get the kids involved and not out playing golf or at the pub with chatting up other women, actually my wife is very understanding.she gets the house vacuumed every day for having to put up with all my vacuums

 

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Gsheen
Thanks for that, I will remember next time we fall out over anything I can now say, at least you never have to use a vacuum as I do it all with my vintage cleaners and we have the cleanest carpets in town..

Well done that man.

 

[kirbymodel2c]

Hi

Hi Lee. Great job! Just a question. So you sent the body parts to a company. The powder coaters. Is that the name of the company or a type of company??
Was you tempted to re spray the vacs yourself??

Thanks James)

 

[beerad]

wow...

those connie restoration are beautiful!! good job.

I was wondering if you knew where i could get the matching hose and acessories for this connie from?

 

[vacumaniac]

Hotpoint those are beautiful!!!! Once bitten by this bug it only gets more exciting. My wife has grown to accept this, and on occasion will surprise me with a vac or two!!! I look forward to seeing those other two when they are done

 

[goadie12]

Wow I must say beerad that filter queen in the background is absolutely beautiful I have never seen one that is all crone in that style and year where in the world did u find it? Zach

 

[beerad]

Hi Zach

I bought it a few years ago from a vac shop. It is a Canadian model 200a made in Toronto in 1939.
It was one of the very first filter queens.

That particular all chrome one in the pic is a special model.. it was only available as a prize to the top sales person of that year.

It was not available for sale to the public.

It runs like a top too.

 

[beerad]

zach

here is my email addy [email protected]

wanna chat sometime ?
Brad.

 

[twocvbloke]

Looks like you used Arctic cable for that Blue & White model, should be good down to -25˚C, assuming you were using the connie for snow blowing in northern Canada...

Still, I like blue Arctic cable, I have it on a few things including my portable TwinTub (the short-arse cable it came with broke, so, I put a long Arctic on it!!), aswell as having a couple of extension cables made up with the stuff...

That reminds me, must get some more of the stuff...

 

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@ kirbymodel2c
James, yes I send the casings to a company not to far from home which chemically strip the old coatings and then sand blast the metal ready for a coating of powder paint which is then backed on in a kiln, result is a very durable finish.
http://www.leominsterpowdercoat.co.uk/

I do not have the ability to paint them myself, the finish would be absolutely awful if it tried and would end up paying anyway.

@ beerad
I have found all my hoses and tools from eBay, you just have top keep checking every day, and something will come up at some point.


@ vacumaniac
Yes she will accept it as I have over the 60+ shoes and matching bags.

@ twocvbloke
Well spotted, yes its arctic cable, the only blue cable I could find it’s a bit heavy and stops the unit moving as freely as a lighter cable would, I could do with some red, green, and yellow now.

lee

 

[twocvbloke]

Yeah, you can only get Arctic down to 1.5mm thick (which is what, 15Amps at 240v?), but it's meant to be rough & ready cable for jobsites and outdoor use, so it has to be thick... :&#92

I find though that with Hoovers, if they have a predominantly white colour, then you can get away with using a white cable, just as I did with one of my Juniors (surprisingly, the cable was a genuine Hoover spare too!! With a modern moulded plug though, I hate moulded plugs), I think all you'd need for these constellations is 0.75mm cable, which is rated for 6Amps (or 1440w) at 240v, and you could make your own up to any length you liked...

As for other colours, good luck with that, I've looked about for coloured cables online, and generally, they tend to either not make them, or make them for a high cost than a simple generic white, I think there are methods for dying PVC coated cables, but I haven't a clue how that works... :S

 

[kirbymodel2c]

Hi

Hi Lee,

Was it easy to drill the rivets out, also where did you get your rivet gun/rivets from?
And why I come to think of it what kindda price range are we looking at to have work like you have had done roughly?? Is it £100s of pounds? Sorry if its a nosey question

I never thought of of getting a company to respray metal work for me.

James)

 

[pinkge]

Lee...

beautiful job on those connie's.Trully,you are the artist when it comes to restoration of the Hoover Connie's.Thumb's up. Michael

 

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Hello James
Drilling out the rivets is easy enough, cordless drill and 2mm 3mm and 4mm metal drill bit’s, it can be awkward drilling out the bag holder and the clasp.

Riveter and the rivets are from Halfords or B&Q stock them as well.

The cost of the powder coating including stripping and sand blasting was £75 cash the rose one which is with them now might cost more due to the very poor condition and the sand blasting will take longer.

Lee

 

[gottahaveahoove]

Dear GOD, Lee!!!!!!!!!

They ARE factory fresh!.  You are an artist, and that is a gift.  My mouth is agape over here in The United States! Impressed is an understatement.  But,  why is everything so rusty? Where did you get them?


  Kudos to you,


John.

 

 

[rickenbacker]

Those, Sir, are superb! very well done

 

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Thanks for all the replies.

@ gottahaveahoove
The rose and white/ yellow and white machines I found in a garden shed, and have been in there for most of the past 15 years the rose one longer, it was sitting on the bare ground in the mud, the yellow one was on a shelf but it was full of compost which included the remains of a dust bag.

Bottom of the rose one