Hoover Constellation Re-build

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A few weeks ago I got my first vintage vacuum cleaner.

The Hoover constellation.

 

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Hoover Constellation Re-build

Now I have Rebuilt it after a fresh coat of powder paint.

 

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Front

 

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back

 

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Bottom

 

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inside

 

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Oops wrong colour, I quite like the cream filter grill.

 

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Inside the lid.

 

[paulc]

What a superb job!

 

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Badges

 

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Lucky find on ebay, hose, one extension tube, craves tool and stair brush with the old dusting brush.

I need one extension tube and a floor head.

 

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Generations

The old and the new.

 

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One more before

 

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Last one after

 

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Link to strip down thread

http://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?34671

 

[hooverwheelaway]

Wow! That looks incredible--I've never repainted any of mine; I've alwas been too scared of popping rivets apart--but you make it look easy! Congrats! Such a fun little machine!

Fred

 

[washernoob]

I'm blown away! What a beautiful restoration! It looks Near new! Paints are perfect matches!

 

[westie2]

Great restoration on that. It looks new and sounds great.

 

[tlee618]

Lee, fantastic job!!  How did you get such a perfect color match on the paint?  It looks showroom new!!

 

Terry

 

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Hoover Constellation Re-build

Thanks for the comments.

I left the colour choice to the powder coaters, and I have had even better luck this morning, logged into ebay and did the usual Hoover constellation search and at the top of the list is a floor head with a buy it now option.

It’s the correct one as well so I have bought it, now only one extension tube required.

 

[gorenje]

My compliments for the great restoration !!

It really looks and sounds like new

Ingemar

 

[mixfinder]

Beautiful

Its great to see someone actually finish what we all say we're going to do some day.  Sputnik that's actually serves a usable purpose.

 

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My eBay purchase arrived today.

The floor head, cleaned up nicely.

 

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Cobbled together one of the old extension tube, I had to put a screw in places of the missing pip. I will keep looking for another one I’m sure one will turn up some time.

I am very impressed with this vacuum, it did a grand job of cleaning the up-stairs carpets, we have two dogs and the hairs are difficult to remove, not for this machine, the little rubber fingers on the floor head shifted them with ease.

 

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Job done.

 

[tlee618]

Just beautiful Lee, what did you use to polish the wands?  They look fantastic.  

 

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Just a damp cloth with washing up liquid

 

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HELP

OMG she died on me.

The brass carbon brush holder has decided to have a go at being the brush.
Some how the brass insert has moved and made contact with the commutator, luckily I noticed the change in sound and switched off saving the commutator from being badly damaged.

Dose any one have a brush holder kicking around? The carbon brush gets stuck now the end of the brass insert had been damaged.

 

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HELP

The carbon brush holder