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Just going through my ‘Odds & Sods Box’ today and found a couple of those special screws that held on the Control Panel of the first Hoover Keymatic 3224. (circa 1959 if I am any judge?) Hoovers first bold attempt into the ‘Fully Automatic’.
What have we here???? The old Hoover Agitator Bearing Grease Gun….well, well well !
Takes you back eh?
Martin
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Martin wrote:Just going through my ‘Odds & Sods Box’ today and found a couple of those special screws that held on the Control Panel of the first Hoover Keymatic 3224. (circa 1959 if I am any judge?) Hoovers first bold attempt into the ‘Fully Automatic’.
What have we here???? The old Hoover Agitator Bearing Grease Gun….well, well well !
Takes you back eh?
Martin
I’ve got one of those grease guns still in my toolbox. A tidy way of keeping grease, the only touble is now, I don’t use this tool box any more. The engineers keep teasing me that spanners have gone metric. What has happened to Whitworth I want to know.
1961 the old 3224 & updated in 1964 by the 3226. Replaced by the 3208 3221 clutch driven motor range in 1968. I now feel disheartened I know this. I still have a tub of Alvania Grease. I threw out all my old blue manuals when I moved house in 1997. Oh god it is all coming back, pulsator seals, concentric valve company, black cold fill keyplates, the leaking top frame on the 3314L T/Tubs. I wish I had the part numbers for the Hoover special tools, would run them past the Electrue programme for a laugh.
I don’t know, nostalgia is not what it used to be.
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Its good to read these forums, makes you realise that you are not the oldest service engineer in the country,others are catching up, I can go back further than the 3224 to the old sloping front Keymatic, still have the programmer ‘Indexing Tool’ and Pressure switch clamp in my tool box ‘Just in Case’, rembering sitting on customers floor fiddling with the slipping clutch springs and rollers. Happy days!
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This takes me back…..!
http://www.gtj.org.uk/blowup.php?lang=en&id=15884&t=1
Remember these???????????
Martin
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Oh they were the days Twintubs Single tubs, any one want a set of Hotpoint Princess?? mangle rollers. or Hoover twosome bridge bars.
May even have a 3224 clutch.Re: When Adam was a lad!
Martin wrote:Ah memories….?
What a cracking picture Martin.
I managed to find a bit of info to go along with it.
In 1964 the Which magazine reported that the Hoover 3224, Hotpoint 1500 and the English Electric Liberator Mk2 were Joint top machines in that period. While I have no idea on price of the Hoover or the Liberator the Hotpoint was selling at £115 and 10 shillings. Can anyone else price the other two for us please. Before decimalisation 1 shilling = 5 new pence if I remember rightly.
Regards
DonThankfully I’m too young to remember such antiques. 😉
I cut my teeth on the original split tub Candy’s circa 1977ish onwards. But I truly started on the old Formula INOX Candy’s of the 1980’s and I’ve the scars to prove it! 😆
K.
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So you were a Candyman then Ken?
Well well. Remind me to ask you what the hell those funny Drum Pulleys with springs and counterweights are all about?
Martin
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Well well. Remind me to ask you what the hell those funny Drum Pulleys with springs and counterweights are all about?
we used to strip those pulleys in customers houses (for chargeble calls that is),had to file all the holes just a shade and rebuild them with a bit of graphite grease, (never test them the first time with the lid off though as customers would compain about the black marks on the ceiling) had them running sweet with never a recall after that. The trick to test them was to have the thing spinning at 500 rev and switch it off and switch back on at a precise time to launch it into the fast spin. I could do 18-20 calls a day back then…somehow.
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The drum pulley and the motor pulley alter in physical size thereby alowing the motor, whilst spinning at the same physical speed to gear up and spin at twice the speed without increasing the load on the motor to any great degree, fiendishly clever actually if you understood it.
The problem was that the clutch mechanisms sometimes failed on the motor and the drum pulley, but not that often to be fair and most were easy to fix by re-greasing the drum pulley in 90{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} of cases as Mark pointed out. Easy job really with an 8mm spanner and a 10mm nut runner and the knowledge. 😉
As for the bearings, my record was replacing bearings in a Candy 807 in 45 minutes from start to walking out the door, easy when you knew how. but as I was recently reminded by Alex, Mel Barff (UK Service Manager) used to remind us that the foam strips were there to mop up the blood. 😉 No need at all to change the appliance.
BTW Mark, you had to wake for the click. 😀
The rot set in with the Charme range. 🙁
K.
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BTW Mark, you had to wake for the click.
I knew that! but at the time it was classified information and I am still covered by Candy official secrets act, along twith the fact that wd262’s used to burst into flames
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eastlmark wrote:I knew that! but at the time it was classified information and I am still covered by Candy official secrets act, along twith the fact that wd262’s used to burst into flames
LOL!
I actually got a call on a 262 about a year ago, all it wanted was a door seal and the old dear said it had never gone wrong. She didn’t use the dryer though. 😉
K.
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