Dirty old Queen

[petek]

Filter Queen that is!
Poor old thing has been sitting at the thrift store almost two weeks now so I rescued it. It actually works fairly quietly as well. I have no idea the age.. it's a model 200A. Any experts who might know?
This ones gonna need a lot of scrubbing.

 

[westytoploader]

Pete, great find, I knew from your description that it looked like this. Not very many of these left from what I've seen! This FQ is definitely an early model, late 1940's seems likely.

 

[hoover1060]

I'm not an expert but...

Like Robert's Electrikbroom,
you may well have the first model FilterQueen...

 

[petek]

I googled it and found one on D Smiths website. Looks like he has one with all the attachments etc but no date shown so I emailed him with the pic. He's in Moose Jaw which I happen to drive thru each time I head back east most summers and make my first stop for gas. Would be nice to have a first model but somehow being model 200..there may be a model 100.. lol In his pic it looks like there's a brown cloth hose

 

[compactc9]

Actually this was the first model of Filter Queen. It is late 1940s and was actually designed and built by Royal. Beeing built by Roayl explains why the attachment and wand connections are so similar to Royal's and the similarities in the rug tools. They are put togaher with way too many screws, and can be difficult to work on. Something interesting about the design is how the moth crystal vaporizing thing works. It actually has a special wheel up on the top of the motor. If you take the exaust cap off and look in, you should be able to see the aopening to this. The moths crystals would actually fall out of the holder and be ground up in there and then be blown out as gas in the vacuums exaust.

One very important thing about those older ones is to take to top dome off and make sure the batting filter is good, a bad filter can cause the motor to run too hot and will make it be much less powerfull.

 

[tolivac]

I wonder if FQ-Health-Mor still makes "rebuild kits" for these machines?The Rebuild kits contain the filters and tank gaskets required to replace and restore the machine to its normal configuration.Yes,I would think on a model this old the final stage bat filters would need to be replaced.Think of all of the very fine dust and motor brush dust it has absorbed!

 

[compactc9]

One of my other vacuum collecting friends bought one at a garage sale and it had all the original paperwork and the rebuild guarantee. He sent it in to Healt-Mor and they rebuilt it. I'm not sure if it was this model, or the one that came after it, but it was a old one. All of the filters are still available, same ones used on the new ones. I would guess the gasket for a newer brown model would fit. I dobt the motor is still made though.

 

[petek]

Nice to have a first in something..LOL
Here's a couple of pics of the filter top removed..nothing in there but the top of the motor I can see.
And a picture of the insides, I removed the paper cone..there's some dirt in the bin but I haven't used it yet. It runs good, lots of suction.

 

[petek]

And the cone of suction

other than the dirt in the bin the cone etc all look clean and dirt free. . I won't use it till I get a filter for the top hatch if that's required.

 

[dkas]

Second Filter Queen

Actually the 200a was the second version of Filter Queen. The only difference between it and the 200 was the method of connecting the attachments. The 200 had a straight slot on the attachments and the 200a had a round hole.

 

[petek]

Hey Doug,, you found us.