Vacuum Cleaners Discussions

Hi,

I have yet to see a vacuum's brushroll actually break in two.  Does the material one is made of make a critical difference over time?

The best features I've liked about brushrolls, whether wood, metal or plastic, are those that allow easy removal and replacement of brush strips and beater bars thus doing away with the need to buy a complete new brushroll when brush wear begins to effect cleaning.

Venson wrote:

Hi Venson:

Wooden brush rebristlers were extremely rare because the wooden rolls lent themselves to splitting in the process.  More common and widespread were the metal brush rebristlers.  HOOVER brush strips were always metal backed up to the Convertibles in the mid 50's which were plastic backed.   These plastic backs had no option for rebristling.  Had to buy and replace these new.  But the old fashioned rebristlers were still available for all the other HOOVER metal backed brush strips until the cost was too prohibitive for the fall off in demand.  if I recall the last of the USA rebristlers bit the dust [no pun intended] in the late 70's. 

Carmine D.

Thanks Carmine.

Venson

I thought the Hoover brush strips were an excellent idea. I wish they still did that today but then again there were complaints in the early 1980s of consumers who had ruined floors because of the abrasive nature of the actual metal bars which has been replaced by plastic these days.

Venson wrote:

The HOOVER upright Commercial 913 all metals with cloth bags made in England used double screw metal back rebristleable agitator brushes [similar to H-28-29 but with different center bar and end plates].  These were made for export to the USA right up thru the 80's and then ended.  No longer around, these HOOVER war horses were once the stalwarts of many commerical cleaning businesses and companies.

Carmine D.

CarmineD wrote:

The HOOVER upright Commercial 913 all metals with cloth bags made in England used double screw metal back rebristleable agitator brushes [similar to H-28-29 but with different center bar and end plates].  These were made for export to the USA right up thru the 80's and then ended.  No longer around, these HOOVER war horses were once the stalwarts of many commerical cleaning businesses and companies.

Carmine D.

Hi,

Following is a link to a page bearing the Model 912 (British version) and several other models.  Didn't download the picture itself because that would be naughty -- and because I couldn't when I tried.

http://www.vintagehoover.com/commercial.htm

Venson

Thanks Venson.  Conspicuously missing is the leather reinforcement on the bottom of the cloth bag [on the American version] to protect against wear and tear when the bag was in operation and fill.

Carmine D.

Hi Carmine,

I remember always seeing these in use in department stores like Gimble's and Macy's in New York and Philadelphia.

Venson

can a Hoover Elite or Windtunnel brush roll be re-bristled?

Carmine,

  Do you remember the oversize convertable upright that they took out to display at the stores to draw peole in? Dad had it at our house when he was a serviceman for HOOVEr in about 1955. That thing pulled the rug off of our floor into the cleaner before it blew a fuse in our house. It was quite a show piece.

                                                                             Procare

procare wrote:

Hello Procare:

Can't say I do, unless you're thinking of the HOOVER Commercial 90, 91, 913 which rsembled more the old HOOVER 60 and 61 upright models.  Up to the Convertible models [31 and 65], around 1955, HOOVER continued to sell new vacuums door-to-door and through it's own branch stores and large retail stores where it rented space for selling to vacuum customers.  After the advent of the Convertibles, HOOVER stopped it's door-to-door sales and started authorizing independents like myself as sales and service stations and warranty dealers.  HOOVER did this through its own sales representatives who made the routes to the indies for the purpose.  When HOOVER did this, the HOOVER reps provided store and window displays for its products.  Very HOOVER-ish with the iconic HOOVER emblems in abundance.  This was also the era of televisions in most households and HOOVER was advertising on some of the popular TV shows.  HOOVER reps assembled and provided cardboard and metal stands and platforms in various shapes and sizes for displaying its products like the Covertibles, constellations, sticks [lark], irons with aluminum and staniless steel soleplates, waxers, polishers etc.  Bag stands that revolved with adjustable size/spaces for all the various HOOVER products' bags.  It was the best and worse of times for HOOVER.  Large volume sales, especially in the big box stores, all too ofetn at expense of the independents, the back bone for HOOVER for its service and parts.

Carmine D.