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kirbymodel2c
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Hi Benny, Yeah many of the parts are similar in the Housemaid and commander.
The spares I need to repair the blue soft bagged Housemaid are mainly cosmetic like a blue bumper, Bag clip retainer etc. The other spares I need like the motor and metal fan I can take from the spare brown soft bag Housemaid that's also in poor condition.
Commander and Housemaid spares are very hard to come by now.
I managed to get hold of a few NOS brush rolls and a few other odd parts but nothing much more. The HM and C had the same roller.
I've spoke to quite a few other vac shop owners with me being in the trade but most of them binned there spare Housemaid and Commanders parts years ago as they just stopped seeing them come in for repairs. One of my suppliers use to be a Goblin agent and had loads of HM/C spares as he use to get 100s in for repair under guarantee. Again he binned most of the spares when the vacs stopped coming in. I missed the last lot he binned a year or so back by a few months
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You never know I might get the spare blue parts I need if I'm lucky.
Ryan when I 1st read what you said about 1985 I had images of Grace Jones using a red Goblin Commander as some kind of advert lol.
James)
Hi Benny, Yeah many of the parts are similar in the Housemaid and commander.
The spares I need to repair the blue soft bagged Housemaid are mainly cosmetic like a blue bumper, Bag clip retainer etc. The other spares I need like the motor and metal fan I can take from the spare brown soft bag Housemaid that's also in poor condition.
Commander and Housemaid spares are very hard to come by now.
I managed to get hold of a few NOS brush rolls and a few other odd parts but nothing much more. The HM and C had the same roller.
I've spoke to quite a few other vac shop owners with me being in the trade but most of them binned there spare Housemaid and Commanders parts years ago as they just stopped seeing them come in for repairs. One of my suppliers use to be a Goblin agent and had loads of HM/C spares as he use to get 100s in for repair under guarantee. Again he binned most of the spares when the vacs stopped coming in. I missed the last lot he binned a year or so back by a few months
(You never know I might get the spare blue parts I need if I'm lucky.
Ryan when I 1st read what you said about 1985 I had images of Grace Jones using a red Goblin Commander as some kind of advert lol.
James
)vintagerepairer
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Hello James. What you say rings quite true with my own experiences. Goblin vacuum cleaners were amongst the cheapest of all on sale. The build quality was poor overall and if I said they were rough around the edges, often literally so, I think I am not being unfair. To a good deal of people who owned a Goblin, it was simply not worth the financial cost or the time to take it for repair. If I had them in for repair, it would only be for blockages, belts, or a new mains lead and so on and so forth. If the cleaner needed parts so to speak, it was rarely cost effective to order from brand new stock, yet waiting for a 2nd hand cleaner to come by to use for spares was like waiting for God, and even then there was no knowing if the same part had failed on the would-be donor machine.
I didn't dare hold any Goblin parts as stock items, which is in contrast to Hoover and Electrolux where I kept many a part available as I knew what I would and wouldn't be able to use in the fullness of time.
As a side comment, have you noticed how the width of the Housemaid cleaner exceeds it's depth? Because of this, I always felt an overwhelming urge to operate the cleaner with two hands, as if it were a carpet sweeper or a snow shovel. I felt the same when using an Oreck too. I find it fascinating how the size and shape of a cleaner can affect the way one uses it. Those cleaners with narrow, deep cleaning heads or square cleaning heads were always easy to use with one hand only.
I didn't dare hold any Goblin parts as stock items, which is in contrast to Hoover and Electrolux where I kept many a part available as I knew what I would and wouldn't be able to use in the fullness of time.
As a side comment, have you noticed how the width of the Housemaid cleaner exceeds it's depth? Because of this, I always felt an overwhelming urge to operate the cleaner with two hands, as if it were a carpet sweeper or a snow shovel. I felt the same when using an Oreck too. I find it fascinating how the size and shape of a cleaner can affect the way one uses it. Those cleaners with narrow, deep cleaning heads or square cleaning heads were always easy to use with one hand only.
rolls_rapide
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I never liked Goblin machines. I saw them as cheap and nasty from a distance (pages of mums home shopping catalogue). I also saw them close up - still cheap and nasty.
Where Hoover and Electrolux would weld or glue handle parts together, Goblin visibly screwed the two halves of the handle together.
A Goblin Commander that I used refused to remove grit from the carpet. The suction was terrible.
Where Hoover and Electrolux would weld or glue handle parts together, Goblin visibly screwed the two halves of the handle together.
A Goblin Commander that I used refused to remove grit from the carpet. The suction was terrible.
kirbymodel2c
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Hi Benny, Yep I understand what you mean about the Housemaid and other vacs where the width is quite a bit longer than the depth.Although I still only use one hand lol.
As Iv'e said before the build quality was not brilliant. I think what sold them is that they was cheap and the soft bag models are quite light.
The cleaning proformance isn't bad at all.Wasn't the best on the market but it was decent. The hose suction on the commander is decent as it don't use a pan converter as it has it's own suction port.I don't know what the hose suction is like on the Housemaids as I don't have the hose with pan converter to try that out.
Over all I do like the Goblin Housemaids and Commanders.
I wouldn't mind the Electra version of the soft bagged Housemaid. It was a yellowish kind of colour. My step dad had one when he meet my mum in the late 80s. I've never seen one since then.
James)
Hi Benny, Yep I understand what you mean about the Housemaid and other vacs where the width is quite a bit longer than the depth.Although I still only use one hand lol.
As Iv'e said before the build quality was not brilliant. I think what sold them is that they was cheap and the soft bag models are quite light.
The cleaning proformance isn't bad at all.Wasn't the best on the market but it was decent. The hose suction on the commander is decent as it don't use a pan converter as it has it's own suction port.I don't know what the hose suction is like on the Housemaids as I don't have the hose with pan converter to try that out.
Over all I do like the Goblin Housemaids and Commanders.
I wouldn't mind the Electra version of the soft bagged Housemaid. It was a yellowish kind of colour. My step dad had one when he meet my mum in the late 80s. I've never seen one since then.
James
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sebo_fan
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I miss the early Goblin uprights. 'Always wanted a Laser - I loved the shape of it.
vintagerepairer
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Goblin seemed to know it's place in the market and stuck to it. You may notice I talk about built-in failure in appliances quite a lot. Goblin seemed to have it covered from all angles as the cleaners were usually a good deal cheaper than their competition, they worked OK, and they were built to last what one might call 'long enough'. If I heard it once I must have heard it a million times, when a customer passed comment about a Goblin cleaner (or indeed any cheap cleaner for that matter) breaking down or falling apart, or just not being very good, they often mentioned that they'd not given very much money for it from the outset and that one gets what one pays for.
The whole experience of using a Goblin cleaner would generally be one of lesser quality, if indeed one can go as far as to talk about a cleaning experience being one of quality or not. What Goblin rarely did, if indeed ever, was to sell their below-average quality cleaners with a top-end price tag. Other manufacturers do so, for a good deal of reasons I know, but that doesn't mean it is right. You know I'm not a liker or dis-liker of Dyson cleaners as I feel they have much in their favour and much against, but to me the build quality has always fallen well short of the asking price. Of course the quality has got better as time has passed, but I still feel it is on the poor side.
The whole experience of using a Goblin cleaner would generally be one of lesser quality, if indeed one can go as far as to talk about a cleaning experience being one of quality or not. What Goblin rarely did, if indeed ever, was to sell their below-average quality cleaners with a top-end price tag. Other manufacturers do so, for a good deal of reasons I know, but that doesn't mean it is right. You know I'm not a liker or dis-liker of Dyson cleaners as I feel they have much in their favour and much against, but to me the build quality has always fallen well short of the asking price. Of course the quality has got better as time has passed, but I still feel it is on the poor side.
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