OMG I brought home a Hoover

[bikerray]

Hit Goodwill today and found a Hoover Model 63 for sale. Looked at it then left it, thought about it and then decided that if I want it today is a sale day. So it was either buy it today or forget about it. I bought it, since it came out to less than $5. Took the paper bag and threw that in the garbage in front of Goodwill then cleaned it when I got home. It still has the 12,000,000 Hoover sticker on the handle. The date stamp on the bottom is Jun 8 1960, it needs a new belt, the one that's in there works but it needs a new one, I'll get that later.

 

[vinvac]

Awesome Find!

 

[kirbysthebest]

Awesome find

One wonders about the former owner.  Was it from a house that was being closed out when the owners moved to a Nursing Facility or passed away?  You can almost imagine it as a wedding gift, cleaning the house all those years.  Then sadly being donated when the house closed.


 


That's the fun with older machines, since this one appears to have been cared for you wonder what it's life had been like.

 

[suckolux]

Looks to be in nice shape and clean.

 

[vac-o-matic]

That's a great find, especially in that condition. That's a nice replacement outer bag, good color match and probably uses F&G bags. New belts might be an issue, but a stretched Convertible belt is a good substitute. That was Hoover's first upright to use a throw out bag, originally a C type.

 

[bikerray]

At the moment I have an F & G bag in the Hoover.
I was going to put in a C bag but found out I only have W bags at the moment.
The round belt is no problem to find.

 

[gottahaveahoove]

F&G????

CAn you get some "Cs"?  Do you need some sent to you?


 


 


 


Get the gloves!!!!!


  Oh,  come on........  that WAS funny!! I mean.. P L E A S E ... We're all adults... right?

 

[bikerray]

I know, every Goodwill I go to has at least one package of C bags on the shelf

I was cutting down C bags and useing them in an Electrolux Model XXX and now I'm C less.

The W bags are kind of interesting and they are open at both ends, one end is like the C bag and the other has cardboard flaps that were clamped.

 

[hooverboy81]

You can use Hoover belt part #44783 (this is the belt originally made for the machine, and they're still available!) or a eureka RD belt. It's in beautiful condition!

 

[bikerray]

A Koblenz belt works too and it's clear

Found a set of brush roll strips for the Model 62/63/64
Part # 047421 for the long strips
Part # 047422 for the short strips

Cleaned and regreased the brush roll bearings.