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Thread Number: 83302
/ Tag: Twin-Tub Washers
New Hoover Deluxe TwinTub 519 owner |
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Post# 1076213 , Reply# 1 6/7/2020 at 15:40 (1,024 days old) by Launderess  (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Welcome to our world
Quite a few members (including yours truly) own Hoover twin-tub washers. They are a fun if not involved way to get through wash day.....
That being said pumps were the weak spot for all Hoover TT it seems. More often than not those that have been allowed to sit for long periods find insides crusted up with hardened detergent/soap residue combined with muck, lint and god only knows what else. Happily as you've discovered these pumps come apart rather easily and if necessary can be repaired (locating proper part of course), then put back into service. First few times using a Hoover TT that has been sitting for long is to do a few washes with really hot water, this should loosen and flush out any gunk crusted inside. | ||
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Post# 1076218 , Reply# 2 6/7/2020 at 16:09 (1,024 days old) by jeb (Mansfield Ohiio) |
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You might be able to find a sweeper belt that would hold up better? | ||
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Post# 1076264 , Reply# 4 6/7/2020 at 21:19 (1,023 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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An excellent washer-in-a-pinch to have around. Hoover TTs cleaned well, spun well and with some rinsing method experiments, you'll end up with very satisfactory results. Yours is mid 70's, looks to be in good shape for the age. Maytag had a well built TT, but the Hoover was a faster and larger machine. I brought home a standard model Hoover washer almost days after I got my driver's license at 16. It came with a brand new pump in the box and new belts. My very own Hoover! Have had several over the years, I'd get a "craving" for one and pick one up, play with it for a while and pass it along. Now, I have a Hoover set found here on the forum, unused, imported to the mighty prairie from Albany, NY. Hopefully this will be my last, I'm not letting this one go, they're pretty rare now.
The spin motor is the same as a Constellation floats-on-air cleaner, gives it it's vaguely familiar whine. The first ad photo is 1975, also has a cool dishwasher. Good work on getting your pump to run. The later pinch-valve style was more durable than the bakelite original,. The belt should work fine, at least for a while, but a readily available part. The original belt was a fiber/rubber composition, a bit longer than Hoover's vacuum belts. There were rebuild kits for these pumps, any old vac stores around you? The Hoover store and repair center here had some common laundry parts for a long time after they'd been discontinued. Always worth a free phone call. A neighbor of ours had a 1974-ish Hoover set, washed for a family of five. I loved watching and helping, it's a fun washer to use. Passed on several years later to a sister's family of 3 while he was in med school. Better than going to a laundromat. especially if you have a full-size dryer or clothesline. | ||
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Post# 1076271 , Reply# 5 6/7/2020 at 21:52 (1,023 days old) by Laundryboy (Orlando Florida & Moravia NY. ) |
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Post# 1076378 , Reply# 8 6/8/2020 at 16:09 (1,023 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Late as 1990's
NOS parts for Hoover TT washers still popped up regularly enough on fleaPay and elsewhere. Usually from suppliers clearing out old dusty shelves and other dead stock. This still happens today but more in Australia and UK where Hoover sold more of their TTs and for longer after USA production ceased.
Sadly as wont to happen with many other NOS parts for vintage appliances much likely was rubbished when places simply cleared out old dead stock. Modern Appliance Parts (did I get that right) was one place that held onto old stock, at least until owner Larry died. Think afterwards much was thrown away. My point is keep looking online and elsewhere because you never know. The week or so you don't search someone will pipe up "look what I just won on eBay...." *LOL* As for pump belts at least only the rough textured Hoover TTs will seem to work. Any other Hoover or whatever smooth belts don't have the grip needed to transfer energy from motor to pulley effectively from what one has seen. Still have a set of Hoover convertible belts bought for that purpose which have been sat sitting ever since. Was able to find NOS pump belts so never even got far as to experiment. But off the bat could see the difference. Besides their rough surface Hoover TT belts have far more elasticity than vacuum cleaner or sweeper types. Other main issue with pumps is diverter mechanism/valve. Call it what you will; wear and tear, slow failure... but it can happen that with some models of pump sooner or later there won't be a good seal between switching to "drain" or just sending water from extraction tub to wash. At the time Hoover made these pumps easily rebuilt or repaired with new spare parts. Again these are hard to come by today so work around may be necessary. | ||
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Post# 1076551 , Reply# 10 6/10/2020 at 06:04 (1,021 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK) |
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Hoovermatics
Glad you managed to pick up a Hoovermatic Ron, great for ploughing through washing, quick to complete multiple washloads and always the floor gets a clean as well.
I think your pumps in this model are different to our in the UK ? does this model have a pinch valve ? Hoovermatic pumps where the weakest link of the whole machine but nothing that cant be sorted and fixed with a little ingenuity like the O ring fix you used. Have fun using it and a little looking after will give you a lifetime of fun washing, and they can certainly pump that water out at a rate of knots not seen on any other machine ha ha.. Enjoy , Mike | ||
| Post# 1076558 , Reply# 11 6/10/2020 at 07:23 (1,021 days old) by RedGeminiPA (Altoona, PA) | ||
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Thank you. The USA models switched to the pinch hose design, making it pretty simple and a little more reliable. | ||
| Post# 1076607 , Reply# 12 6/10/2020 at 13:49 (1,021 days old) by ps91Rick (Lancaster, Ca ) | ||
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Very cool machine! If there was one nearby I’d consider it! Btw.. if anyone is near Kamloops, BC, someone is selling one for $60 CA... only needs a belt so the ad claims.. I’d hate to see one of these go to the scrap heap! | ||
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