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Hoover SteamVac Deluxe Hell...
Smitty500mag
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I spent over 2 hours repairing a Hoover SteamVac Deluxe carpet cleaner yesterday. I learned things I never knew and actually never wanted to know about them. My wife was cleaning some carpet and I noticed the brushes weren't turning and the water flow was almost nonexistent. So there it was...broke. What should I do? Easier to just buy her a new one but nooooo, I tear into it and after over 2 hours of wishing a horrid death on the designer of this thing and sweating buckets of sweat I got it to working.
To make a long story short I cleaned and greased the gears and a set of bearings and freed the drive shaft and brushes up which required taking it apart and putting it back together a couple of times to locate where the extra screws I turned up with go to after the first reassembly. Then I fixed the kink in one of the water lines that was causing the flow problem.
Then for the test, I plug her up to the wall outlet and...EUREKA er, I mean...HOOVER, the damn thing works!!
I think if I had it to do over I'd just buy a new one.
To make a long story short I cleaned and greased the gears and a set of bearings and freed the drive shaft and brushes up which required taking it apart and putting it back together a couple of times to locate where the extra screws I turned up with go to after the first reassembly. Then I fixed the kink in one of the water lines that was causing the flow problem.
Then for the test, I plug her up to the wall outlet and...EUREKA er, I mean...HOOVER, the damn thing works!!
I think if I had it to do over I'd just buy a new one.
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I was in the red on points so I doubt there'll be enough points to put me in the black on this one.
I was in the red on points so I doubt there'll be enough points to put me in the black on this one.
and I got some good ones. one was a Swedish model with two motors. currently have a Eureka Boss.
Smitty it would have been the same with yours. fix the roller, unkink the hose and thank yooooou so much! :P
I'm just sayin'...??????..
Except this wasn't a vacuum cleaner it's a carpet cleaner that uses hot water and soap.
I repaired her expensive vacuum cleaner a couple of years ago using JB Weld. One of the wheels broke off from the frame. I used JB Weld and it's on there forever now. The rest of the wheels might break off and the whole thing can fall completely apart but that wheel is on there until the end.
We do go thru vacuum cleaners about once a year (if we are lucky). I used to buy the top dollar models with all the bells and whistles, and I would work on them for simple belt or cleaning issues. Took a couple of them to a local vac shop and was educated on what makes a good vacuum cleaner good. The cleaners they sell and recommend still have disposable bags in them and the starting price point for their lowest is around 500 bucks.
I preferred to spend my money on a machine that did the job without the bag hassle's for around 200 dollars from Sam's Club. Keeping my receipts has saved me a couple of vacuum trade outs for new ones when the old ones crapped out with a years time.
That would get expensive at our place. My wife is a clean freak. That cleaner has more miles on it than my truck.
How do I know this.
Them carpet cleaners can be a pain in the AxE when they quit and never the same thing wrong each time. AND wiffee needs it fixed right when you have another project going like during hunting season. :oops:
I do like clean wimmins! Don