The carboot has delivered! (Sort of)

[rootcyclone]

Hi all! So I've had a pretty good morning down at my local carboot. I didn't find a DC03 but oh well, at least I tried!

I found this DC07 Origin Cyclone and bin unit for £10 and in very good condition!

 

[rootcyclone]

Inside it's a bit dirty, mainly stained and dried up dust. Mainly at the top though, the bottom is perfectly clean!

 

[rootcyclone]

The shroud part of the Cyclone unit is completely clear!

 

[rootcyclone]

I expected the bin to be bit 'clouded' over but not dusty at all.

So now my project is to build my own Dyson DC07 Origin from spare parts. The next thing to get is a DC07 Origin body with a motor inside of it. I also need a hose, cable, airflow ducts, filters etc.

What do you guys think?

 

[dysondestijl]

You payed £10 for a cyclone for a vacuum you don't even have?

 

[rootcyclone]

It's the best I could do this morning. But I plan or restoring a DC07 Origin so I needed this part especially. I'm not paying £45 for a brand new one!

 

[parwaz786]

I bought a dc07 cyclone for £1! Buttoday there was a dc07 origin for £20 and a dc
04i in blue

 

[rootcyclone]

I didn't see many vacuums at my local carboot But I found a guy who had THOUSANDS of Dyson, Hoover, and Numatic spares!

 

[hi-loswitch98]

I was given a DC07 Origin that's got a broken bin lid so it wont stay on, but the motor part runs fine.

£10 for the Cyclone & Bin! My car boot has a stall where a man sells them fully cleaned for £4.

 

[rootcyclone]

What I need now to complete the restoration is the vacuum body + Motor, the brushbar, soulplate, hose and wand etc. But I really need the body and the motor complete with wheels and all to complete the restoration, and ebay hasn't got much options!

 

[beko1987]

I've got a chassis you could have for a few pennies. Not got a motor sadly, and the chassis is from a purple animal, but either steam punk dc07 or its grey anyway, I can't remember!

 

[parwaz786]

the DC07 animal should have a purple body

 

[ultraperformer]

I fear by the time you buy all the parts you could of just brought a complete second hand machine for less money but I suppose you have the feeling of building it yourself just budget wisely.

 

[rootcyclone]

Yes I would like to build a DC07. And yes, price does matter, so budgeting will be important.

Also, beko1987, would this chassis include the following:

- The spine
- Holding screws for the motor cover
- and also in good condition? (I don't mind the colour)

 

[beko1987]

Yes and yes! Got the whole motor housing bar the actual motor. I'll get it together tomorrow and put a picture up

 

[beko1987]

From 07 chassis

From 07 chassis

From 07 chassis

From 07 chassis

That's the whole shebang minus motor, clutch and brushroll (used elsewhere)

Will cost about a tenner (maybe less, would need to box it up to get an accurate quote), and I'd like a tenner for the lot too.

I echo comments above, you can get a whole machine for about £30 in good condition, just in need of a refurb. Have you checked your local preloved/gumtree/freead/ebays orted to nearest first? All excellent websites

Let me know if you want it and I'll get it packaged and quoted. Not sure wehter to just wrap it in bubblewrap and put the label on that or find a box for it!

 

[madabouthoovers]

You need to be careful with the DC07 Animal spine, the purple ABS plastic on this model is VERY fragile and brittle! I have bought a few old vacs with this type of spine and every one of them had damaged lugs that held the hose and handle to the spine. There should be 4 lugs at the top of the spine on the rear of it, and these lugs are what stops the handle from dropping off backwards away from the spine. I would check that that spine has all 4 lugs intact, or its not really any use as the stress of use on the remaining lugs will snap them off as well in short time.


In short, the purple Animal version is not really a good choice, especially if its been badly faded and exposed to sunlight which makes the ABS even more brittle. Be warned!


 


Here are 2 spines which both have broken lugs:


 


 

 

[madabouthoovers]

This is spine 1:

 

[madabouthoovers]

And the other one - both were bought for the motors, as the spines are no good:

 

[madabouthoovers]

Oh, and never drop a cyclone assembly off a DC07, or this could happen:

 

[madabouthoovers]

Old DC07's may still be common and everywhere on EBay, but many of the older ones are now up to 12 years old, and the plastics will be like eggshells, so I would try to get the newest model you can, as the plastics will not be in such an advanced state of decomposition. Any old Dyson that has been stored in sunlight is a NO-NO! Sunlight destroys coloured ABS.


 


The best type of DC07 to get is a non-clutched model, and a late one such as the one below, the plastics are better than the earlier models. Bear in mind that older clutched models will more than likely have the original drivebelts one them which will be stretched and usually start slipping, necessitating belt replacement which aint easy on a DC07 clutch as it has to be dismantled to replace the clutch to brushroll belt.

 

[madabouthoovers]

I picked this model up off Ebay for £20, it was down as spares or repairs as it wouldn't pick up. It was filthy dirty as seen below:

 

[beko1987]

Never thought to check the spines, need to pop back to mums in a bit, so will check. I got mine for the motor and clutch too, since it's the cheapest way to get parts.

Mine is quite faded though, not dropped it to check for brittleness though! Will report back

 

[madabouthoovers]

But it was a newish model, so I snapped it up, it was one of the last DC07s to be made in about 2008:

 

[madabouthoovers]

It was clogged in the hose, and the belt had snapped:

 

[madabouthoovers]

Showing the soleplate removed, and no belt!

 

[madabouthoovers]

After I cleaned it up and fitted a new belt, I sold it for £60. If you drop on the right one, you can get one like this for next to nothing. The cleaner was practically like new when cleaned up:

[this post was last edited: 9/3/2013-10:04]

 

[madabouthoovers]

I can just not understand why someone would buy a Dyson and knock the hell out of it, letting it get filthy and clogged up, then selling it for next to nothing. The carbon brushes told me that it had hardly any use at all:

 

[madabouthoovers]

It was called the DC07 Precision and was an Argos exclusive, the last of the DC07's to be sold before they finished production. In my eyes, a very classy looking Dc07: