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!

 

[james]

You really have done an amazing job' well done/
Must have taken you an age.
hehe thanks, you never believe, but that Kirby bag has never been used

 

[dysondestijl]

Wow you have some amazing looking cleaners!! I don't have many that are fully restored but the ones I have restored ill show pics of:
First my fully repainted, cleaned, motor fully disassembled and reassembled Siemens super:

 

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Not very vintage but fully disassembled and cleaned DC07:

 

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My fully cleaned hoover compacts, the one on the right is the cleaned one, and the one on the left is a BEFORE CLEANING picture!

 

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And here's the other hoover compact AFTER cleaning:

 

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If the bin wasn't so bleedin' scratched on this it would look OK

 

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The half cleans floor tool on my electrolux ZA65:

 

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And the polished skates on the ZA65:

 

[Jakesvacs]

That Siemens looks awesome and the dc07 has cleaned up really nicely too!
Don't worry about unrestored vacs; I have my fair share to do yet.

 

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Ooo you do have some nice vacs!