vac-o-matic
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Today's P.O.D. summed it up, "Hoover is built, not for planned obsolescence, but virtually a lifetime of service". That applies to most vacuums of the era back then, and only a handful these days that might be around twenty years from now. It's a shame that TTI has discontinued so many Hoover parts for older machines to keep them useful, I guess they figure you'll have to buy new if you can't get replacement parts for the older models. I guess that can be said about many things these days, appliances, etc. I remember refrigerators from years ago lasting thirty, forty years, but now whether you spend six hundred or sixteen hundred for one, they pretty much tell you to expect ten to twelve years of service, and probably lucky if you get that without service calls of some kind. Oh well, the way of the world these days.
