Vintage Vacuums & Restorations

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After a long wait and many of this cleaner later, I have a nice example of a Hoover Junior 1346A.
These are the before pictures. It was not in bad condition to begin with just little "niggles" that I managed to fix up!

 

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Both cable hooks where broken and the cord was split underneath.

 

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The previous owner managed to snap off the handle release

 

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Spiders home

A little spider use to live here, next door to the nest of woodlouse.

 

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After a little magic!

 

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End result

After a new motor, handle release,pedal, handle, cable, brand new bag and switch cover. I had this!

 

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These two where involved in a lot of vacuum history!

 

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I reccently polished this Kirby Tradition

One of my favourites!

 

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Thanks for viewing my photos, more of my restorations and line ups to come soon!

 

[james]

Wow you've done a great job on them vacs Jake! Very impressed,
You have some really nice machines there, well jel
Its really nice to see a younger collector into some of the older machines.
Thanks for sharing
That Tradition is a minter

 

[Jakesvacs]

Thank you very much James, my pleasure.I try to make them look as nice as possible.
I love your Kirby in your profile picture, the bag on that looks amazing!