My Ebay win :)

[ian88]

Update

Hm, it seems my Stickvac has a little socket for an electric turbobrush, the intrigue deepens... lol.

As for the motor I've cleaned the somewhat burnt remains of a filter (just one of those permanant foam jobs which was to keep the motor fairly quiet, they always seem to perish with old Hoovers lol, and i'm going to spray the motor with some WD40 tomorrow..bit safer than greasing I reckon, and it does the job as well as anything else imo.

Ian

 

[collector2]

Nice machine

In the mid 70's the English Pound was going for about $4.20 Canadian.

Re: no plug on the cord for Pete. Up untill the 80's (I believe) when they changed the standards you could find a number of different outlets in homes in the UK. The ones that come to mind are a fused 13 A - 3 flat pin (used presently) 3 round pins (2, 5 and 15 amp versions) and one round pin and two flat (5 and 15 amp versions). As well there were earlier two pin versions of the round ones too. Consequently there were no plugs on the appliances as they had no way of knowing which one to use. Just to confuse things further - there was also a plug available that was made to fit a lamp socket as well. Guess we had it easy in Canada and the US with only one main style of plug.

 

[ian88]

Think WD-40 could sort out the motor? get dust out of the bearings and the like, that's prob what's causing the slight burning smell too.

Ian

 

[ian88]

I'm just gonna give up on her, write her off to experience..

won't believe what it did today.

 

[vintagehoover]

Hmm..

What did it do, Ian?

 

[ian88]

Well I was using it..worked fine, just a bit loud..turned it to the lowest setting just to see, loud unhealthy noise, massive vibrations..smell of burning and dust farting out the back.


Needless to say I used the Constellation.

 

[electroluxxxx]

if it were me I would keep fixing it until I solved the problem. like the saying. "if at first you don't suceed try try again" I am sure something would work out just fine

 

[ian88]

I think the motor's not seated properly, i'm not sure though.

It's a right pain to get into I can tell you.

 

[electroluxxxx]

usually plastic machines like that are a pain really cheap too. Id say they are not worth fixing but for a simple thing like that it might be. sounds like there is dirt or dust on or around the carbon brushes remove them and blow out the armature and where you insert the brushes that might be a quick solution. every machine that I fixed with that problem there was dirt in those areas.

 

[ian88]

I'm gonna have to disconnect a lot of wires to get the motor out, sigh..

Damn late 1970s electronics

 

[electroluxxxx]

how many wires are we talking? if it is that many than whew use masking tape and a marker. tape wires and mark where they go. Piece of pie. hey also check out my thread it is My hoover Model 28 I just recieved it 2 days ago and it is all original