Over the years I watched so many of your videos, I feel l know you . Like your very lovable. I am so sure that so many of your viewers don't just love the vacuums and demonstrations, they love you too.
Loved the old hoover adverts Roger. That was a very nice touch. Done so better then than vacuum cleaner adverts today. That starlight you have is one great example. Always liked the design and headlight placement.
I think the machine looks really stunning with the LED replacement. I'm surprised at how much drama there is involving light bulbs, which are easily replaceable and user preference. This machine is definitely going up on the list of machines I dream to own some day.
I agree, I really liked the bright white light, especially with the futuristic design of this cleaner. But it is an older machine so I could see why people would see a warm white light as more nostalgic.
Very nice vacuum Roger - hats off to you for the effort to get it looking so good. As regards the headlight, deffo warm white - it's more like the original incandescent would have been. You can see the similarity with the later TP1 in the bag housing. Dodgy and crude idea to make the bag full indicator though, and would have only worked as long as the housewife kept replacing the bulb- so I can imagine once the bulb went, 90% of these would have been non operative afterwards as it wasnt exactly straightforward to get the machine apart to change the bulb. They did go for an electronic system for the bag full light on the TP1 that used a positive air pressure switch to turn the bag light on - so wasnt dependent on the headlight bulb working.
Never ceases to amaze me just how popular the 1354 junior was, and yet I don't think I've ever come across one where the headlamp worked. This in itself will come as no surprise of course, but I don't think there was another Hoover cleaner where the consumer made a conscious choice to pay more for the cleaner that had a headlamp, as opposed to the standard model which didn't, thus you'd think some effort would have been made at some point to change the bulb at least twice, in order to utilise the feature they'd paid more for. The Senior, Starlight, Turbopower, Turbomaster, they all had headlamps as standard or at the very least the head-lamped models offered a much greater upgrade in general (such as the Turbopower Junior vs. the Turbopower), making it impossible to say that the headlamp was the only factor that influenced the decision making process. I also thought it interesting as to why from the late 1970s it was only the Electricity Board exclusive Junior & Senior models (possibly some Co-Op lines too) that had headlamps, when the mainstream models didn't. As for the bag-full feature of the Starlight, even as a 13 year old boy (as I was when I first took one apart), I thought it was vastly over-engineered (and dependant totally on the fast-failing headlamp), although this being 1990, pressure switches & neon lights had long been the norm, so I was probably comparing the "technology" of the Starlight to that.
I almost always, under any circumstances, prefer a warm light to a bright one but I rather liked the bright white bulb in this old machine. We had some of that tubular steel framed furniture in the seventies - with chocolate brown corduroy seat cushions! We also had chocolate brown (nylon!) carpet and curtains, a beige circular rug, white painted woodchip wallpaper and pampas grass in a tall floor vase! Groovy! 😅
I hope you didn’t have a pampas grass in your front garden as apparently. it signalled that you were swingers. Come to think of it, I lived in three houses that had pampas grass in the front gardens.
I was a child when I lived in the houses with pampas grass in the front gardens, so any adventures along those lines would have been highly inappropriate. I was a prude as a child and I haven’t changed much.
Good lord! Sure is a lot of vehemence in the room about the kelvin-rating of the ubiquitous light bulb! Earth-shattering passion abounds most profusely!
I wish the Starlight was a model that was imported to America; it's basically a compact Dial-A-Matic, minus a few features. The closest we got to a "compact DAM" was a Panasonic Jet-Flo model, which I think was sold as "Dual Purpose", but it was dinky little thing.
These were a nightmare back in the day the fans used to break for a past time and they were a real time consuming fiddle to strip and mend. But they do look nice I did like the later gold and black colour scheme
I have to admit it was a bit fiddly to put back together, but I was patient and took my time. I expect it was a pain for the people that got them in for repair, but for me it was a labour of love. I’ve just stripped down my green and white Junior Deluxe to retrobright it, so I have that to put back together when I get back from holiday.
@@ibaisaic now see that makes total sense your right. the LED bulb's do last longer for sure. but for nostalgic reasons Id go with a incandescent bulb. but what a beautiful Cleaner for sure..
Not sure why everyone is brainwashed into LED. LED bulbs look awful and are absolutely horrendous. The light color is extremely harsh and ruins the appeal of the vacuum. Use soft white incandescent bulbs like a normal person. It's a vintage Hoover, not a SHARK!
@@ibaisaicThe light bulb is cooled by the motor fan, it does not get hot. With 200 other vacuums, you do not use the vacuum enough to burn out the bulb ever...at all, and there are soft white LED's available. No excuse to use ugly wretched neon blue light. I still have Kirbys with their original OEM Kirby bulbs in the from the factory. I have never put any LED bulbs in anything in my house. They are a dangerous fire hazard, the light is awful, and give me migraines as well.
Did you actually watch the part of the video when I swapped the cool white light for the warm one? I have seen plenty of UK made Hoover uprights that have warped lenses due to the heat of the bulb. Hoover put metal heat deflectors on the underside of the motor hood to prevent the hood warping due to the heat of the bulb. The bulbs in vintage Hoovers would often blow and most people didn’t bother to replace them when they did. Headaches are caused by the flicker of some LEDs that can’t been seen by the naked eye but can be detected using a simple method that I’m sure you are aware of. I tested all my bulbs in my house to see which ones flickered and found the incandescent bulb I swapped for the LED one I had in my bedside light flickered more than the LED. Not all LED bulbs flicker as my simple test discovered and I’m sure not not all LED bulbs are a fire hazzard, especially when used in a vacuum cleaner.
The headlight lens on my 70s Convertible is warped from heat and partially yellowed. I replaced the bulb with a 2700k LED bulb designed to mimic the brightness and look of an incandescent bulb and it works perfectly, without the heat! I haven't had any issues with that machine for years. I'm not sure why people think all LEDs are 6000k. Color temperature varies, color rendering quality varies, it's not hard to find a quality replacement bulb. And hey if it doesn't work out, it twists out like any other bulb... I do this same modification with color matched LED bulbs in vintage 1970s-1980s hifi receivers. The incandescent bulbs overheat and destroy the irreplaceable dials on those receivers. Also no, the airflow from the motor cooling fan is not direct nor powerful enough to suck away the immense amount of heat a 25w bulb filament produces. That's just a straight up lie. Not everything new is bad... good and bad quality products exist in every era.
Cool white light without any doubt. It looks better, and allows the dirt to be seen easier IMO than the yellow light does.
Over the years I watched so many of your videos, I feel l know you . Like your very lovable. I am so sure that so many of your viewers don't just love the vacuums and demonstrations, they love you too.
Definitely the warm white, i absolutely love that vacuum.
Loved the old hoover adverts Roger. That was a very nice touch. Done so better then than vacuum cleaner adverts today.
That starlight you have is one great example. Always liked the design and headlight placement.
I think the machine looks really stunning with the LED replacement. I'm surprised at how much drama there is involving light bulbs, which are easily replaceable and user preference. This machine is definitely going up on the list of machines I dream to own some day.
I agree, I really liked the bright white light, especially with the futuristic design of this cleaner.
But it is an older machine so I could see why people would see a warm white light as more nostalgic.
The LED light will definitely let you see more, but the warm light feels nostalgic. For me, since it’s an older cleaner, I would go with warm light.
Very nice vacuum Roger - hats off to you for the effort to get it looking so good. As regards the headlight, deffo warm white - it's more like the original incandescent would have been. You can see the similarity with the later TP1 in the bag housing. Dodgy and crude idea to make the bag full indicator though, and would have only worked as long as the housewife kept replacing the bulb- so I can imagine once the bulb went, 90% of these would have been non operative afterwards as it wasnt exactly straightforward to get the machine apart to change the bulb.
They did go for an electronic system for the bag full light on the TP1 that used a positive air pressure switch to turn the bag light on - so wasnt dependent on the headlight bulb working.
Never ceases to amaze me just how popular the 1354 junior was, and yet I don't think I've ever come across one where the headlamp worked. This in itself will come as no surprise of course, but I don't think there was another Hoover cleaner where the consumer made a conscious choice to pay more for the cleaner that had a headlamp, as opposed to the standard model which didn't, thus you'd think some effort would have been made at some point to change the bulb at least twice, in order to utilise the feature they'd paid more for.
The Senior, Starlight, Turbopower, Turbomaster, they all had headlamps as standard or at the very least the head-lamped models offered a much greater upgrade in general (such as the Turbopower Junior vs. the Turbopower), making it impossible to say that the headlamp was the only factor that influenced the decision making process.
I also thought it interesting as to why from the late 1970s it was only the Electricity Board exclusive Junior & Senior models (possibly some Co-Op lines too) that had headlamps, when the mainstream models didn't.
As for the bag-full feature of the Starlight, even as a 13 year old boy (as I was when I first took one apart), I thought it was vastly over-engineered (and dependant totally on the fast-failing headlamp), although this being 1990, pressure switches & neon lights had long been the norm, so I was probably comparing the "technology" of the Starlight to that.
Amazing how it picked up the coloured sand. It just shows it's all in the agitation.
I almost always, under any circumstances, prefer a warm light to a bright one but I rather liked the bright white bulb in this old machine. We had some of that tubular steel framed furniture in the seventies - with chocolate brown corduroy seat cushions! We also had chocolate brown (nylon!) carpet and curtains, a beige circular rug, white painted woodchip wallpaper and pampas grass in a tall floor vase! Groovy! 😅
I hope you didn’t have a pampas grass in your front garden as apparently. it signalled that you were swingers. Come to think of it, I lived in three houses that had pampas grass in the front gardens.
@@ibaisaic 🤣 Haha! No, I’ve never been that adventurous! Sounds like you may have hidden depths though! 🤣🤣🤣
I was a child when I lived in the houses with pampas grass in the front gardens, so any adventures along those lines would have been highly inappropriate. I was a prude as a child and I haven’t changed much.
@@ibaisaic Me too, I don’t even talk to strange men … oh hang on … 🤣 (only pulling your leg Roger!)x
Hi Roger liked the Hoover Starlight looks like a nice to have loved your videos with love of vacuum cleaners your friend Mark Rich
Good lord! Sure is a lot of vehemence in the room about the kelvin-rating of the ubiquitous light bulb! Earth-shattering passion abounds most profusely!
Very good vacuum cleaner I love Hoover 😁😁😁
Love your socks 🧦 they look quite spiffy and also comfy 👍🏻
I wish the Starlight was a model that was imported to America; it's basically a compact Dial-A-Matic, minus a few features. The closest we got to a "compact DAM" was a Panasonic Jet-Flo model, which I think was sold as "Dual Purpose", but it was dinky little thing.
Toy Dyson remodel very good
I like the LED bulb. Makes the machine look newer than it really is. That’s just my opinion tho.
Love it!! Also a nice vacuum!
Warm white looked best. Nice vacuum cleaner
you should invest in a UV/heat lamp as so you can retrobrite all year round.
also, definitely Bright white!
edit: spelling.
These were a nightmare back in the day the fans used to break for a past time and they were a real time consuming fiddle to strip and mend. But they do look nice I did like the later gold and black colour scheme
I have to admit it was a bit fiddly to put back together, but I was patient and took my time. I expect it was a pain for the people that got them in for repair, but for me it was a labour of love. I’ve just stripped down my green and white Junior Deluxe to retrobright it, so I have that to put back together when I get back from holiday.
@@ibaisaicHave a nice holiday 🏖😎
Thanks. It’s all over now, back home tomorrow.
Hey Rodger I was wondering if you have any steam cleaners for sale currently?
No I haven’t. I am not selling anything on eBay at the moment.
Hoover starlight always mewing
I prefer the cool white Looks more effective
I like the led
I prefer the warm white.
Warm white only I’d say, and an incandescent bulb as well….
I’m sticking with the cool running longer lasting LED, but I’ve kept the warm white bulb in.
@@ibaisaic now see that makes total sense your right. the LED bulb's do last longer for sure. but for nostalgic reasons Id go with a incandescent bulb. but what a beautiful Cleaner for sure..
helo rogers how are you doing today and my shark hoover making hissing sound can you help please 🙏
Hi Ibaisaic
Not sure why everyone is brainwashed into LED. LED bulbs look awful and are absolutely horrendous. The light color is extremely harsh and ruins the appeal of the vacuum. Use soft white incandescent bulbs like a normal person. It's a vintage Hoover, not a SHARK!
I think both LED light look OK in this vacuum. I prefer them as they don’t run hot and last a lot longer than the traditional incandescent bulbs.
@@ibaisaicThe light bulb is cooled by the motor fan, it does not get hot. With 200 other vacuums, you do not use the vacuum enough to burn out the bulb ever...at all, and there are soft white LED's available. No excuse to use ugly wretched neon blue light. I still have Kirbys with their original OEM Kirby bulbs in the from the factory. I have never put any LED bulbs in anything in my house. They are a dangerous fire hazard, the light is awful, and give me migraines as well.
Did you actually watch the part of the video when I swapped the cool white light for the warm one? I have seen plenty of UK
made Hoover uprights that have warped lenses due to the heat of the bulb. Hoover put metal heat deflectors on the underside of the motor hood to prevent the hood warping due to the heat of the bulb. The bulbs in vintage Hoovers would often blow and most people didn’t bother to replace them when they did.
Headaches are caused by the flicker of some LEDs that can’t been seen by the naked eye but can be detected using a simple method that I’m sure you are aware of. I tested all my bulbs in my house to see which ones flickered and found the incandescent bulb I swapped for the LED one I had in my bedside light flickered more than the LED. Not all LED bulbs flicker as my simple test discovered and I’m sure not not all LED bulbs are a fire hazzard, especially when used in a vacuum cleaner.
The headlight lens on my 70s Convertible is warped from heat and partially yellowed. I replaced the bulb with a 2700k LED bulb designed to mimic the brightness and look of an incandescent bulb and it works perfectly, without the heat! I haven't had any issues with that machine for years.
I'm not sure why people think all LEDs are 6000k. Color temperature varies, color rendering quality varies, it's not hard to find a quality replacement bulb. And hey if it doesn't work out, it twists out like any other bulb...
I do this same modification with color matched LED bulbs in vintage 1970s-1980s hifi receivers. The incandescent bulbs overheat and destroy the irreplaceable dials on those receivers.
Also no, the airflow from the motor cooling fan is not direct nor powerful enough to suck away the immense amount of heat a 25w bulb filament produces. That's just a straight up lie. Not everything new is bad... good and bad quality products exist in every era.
This reminds me of a Sharp Twin Energy EC-T2840 (in the US) because of the light placement.