Basket Case Carpet Shampoo Picked From The Trash, Can We Save It?
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- this Hoover elite carpet cleaner was taken apart by its past owner after finding out the motor was smoked they tossed it out, I grabbed it to see if we could do anything with it. lets find out.
At the start of the video I gave you a 5% chance of fixing it due to probability of lost parts. Once you started on the motor I dropped that to 1%. You really did an amazing job fixing and reassembling that thing. The fact that it cleans carpet so well makes it a keeper. You never cease to keep us entertained mate!
Once he busted out the wizwheel I was like oh well this is just an autopsy....lol how wrong I was
I thought it was a hopeless cause, but with Musti1, it pays to keep watching.
I was of that opinion only I noticed that there 3/4 of the video to go !
And you never once thought he took the think apart and knew where all the parts went??
The problem is the same thing is going to happen because the bearing isn't sealed.
Mustie is the only person I’ll wake up and watch an hour long video about a vacuum cleaner at 4am California time 😂
Same!😂
same here...5:30 for me. Camino Ca.
same here x
Yep!
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Laughed out loud when the paper towel got sucked into the motor 😂 great job on reviving that sucker 👍🏻
Happened to me with a server fan one time while testing. Those things do NOT mess around when going full bore.
I see what you did there 👀
You remember mythbusters back in the 2000s? When Adam savage stuck his mouth up to a running vacuum cleaner motor and it sucked his lip in.. I laughed just as hard as Darren's paper towels getting consumed by this vacuum motor. 😂😂😂😂
So did I!
My wife asked what I was laughing at and I contemplated explaining why I was watching a video about a carpet cleaner when we don’t have any carpets.
I just said”Oh, it was nothing.” 😂
I was an engineer for Oreck and I would take apart competitors vacuums, measure interior diameters, tracing origin of bearings, etc. I was always amazed at how many vacuums could have lived so much longer by using Japanese bearings but then over time, I decided that the Chinese just didn’t care one iota. Another interesting discovery was that manufacturers who would have their vacuums at trade shows, would have Chinese bearings swapped out for Japanese bearings and sometimes ceramic Japanese bearings. As an interesting side note, the bearings in the American made Oreck vacuums (which was all but one which was made in the Netherlands) were manufactured in the same plant that Abram’s Tank bearings were manufactured in TN. They then went into USA made motors (Johnson Electric).
Mrs. Mustie is so lucky to be getting this shampooer for her anniversary present!!!
Pretty sure she would kill him... I know mine would.
Shampooer / flamethrower!! 🤪
@@edwardh2444Exactly my thought. It will stay in the workshop as his second business. Bring your carpet and I will hopefully clean it and not burn it up 😄
Mustie: Hey, I've been working on something for you.
Mrs Mustie: Oh yeah, you get me an old Mustang, or a 4x4?
Mustie: Not quite.
Never buy your spouse appliances; you will be in the dog house forever!
The reason why it’s sparking so much is because the commutator is dirty and needs to be sanded.
We would use chalkboard chalk to polish commutators
Definitely not supposed to spark like that! 😅
Besides cleaning the dirty commutator , I would also take a blade or pick and clean out between the bars .
@@oldschoolman1444 Should have polished the copper while it was out of the motor.
yea I was yelling at the screen.....sand the commutator!!!!
Good morning from central Canada !! For the real fans of this channel, I say Happy Sunday !! Another great video, I love this kind of stuff.
This is for those who are complaining about the content. I think we are lucky we are getting any videos at all. Darren is going through some health issues, and probably doesn't need the negative comments. Cant say something positive, then piss off. This is one of the best RUclips channels ever, if you think you can do better, go do it, keep your BS to yourself.
You sound like Darren's mum
@@tomhgeary Darren's mum has got it going on ,,,,,
Dear Consumer,
Thank you for the review of our product. It is not meant for cleaning dirty carpets, but only to give housewives on speed something to do so they don’t order a million dollars worth of stuff on Amazon in an hour.
As you have noticed, this product has a limited lifetime warranty, which has expired as its limited lifetime has ended.
Regards
The Hoover Team
“Where being sucky is our goal “
Louis Rossmann had a video about using Hoover's warranty on Friday, your letter is better than he got.
What I love about your videos is the diversity of the crap you pick up and invariably fix, one way or another 😁
I thought he was going to drop a 22hp engine in that shampooer
Thats what Tim the toolman tailor would have done. And it would have produced so much horse power, that it would have made the carpet cleaner suck up the carpet, and then we would hear him say, "OH NO!"
LOL
For some reason, I expected it to already have one (be some form of industrial duty shampooer).
Still could end up as an attachment to his snow blower. Tank filled with salt solution. "Snow removal, de-icing and cleaning your driveway all in one pass"
I definitely wouldn't have bet on watching you clean a rug this week. It's a universal motor so AC line frequency doesn't affect speed. It can run just fine on DC too. As the AC polarity swaps it swaps the magnetic field on both the stator and rotor windings so the change cancels out. Voltage and load do affect the speed. The other interesting thing is that the load is reduced when the suction side of the impeller is blocked. This is why a vacuum cleaner will speed up when you block the suction hose.
In addition to this, the AC motors Mustie was thinking are tied to frequency are the AC inductive-type motors which are of course driven by the large parmanent magnet and completely lack the brushes and commutator. The reason these brushed 'universal' motors are used in blenders, vacuums, etc in household appliances is because they're small, light and very cheap. They make very high power for their size/cost relative to AC induction motors but it directly comes at the cost of longevity as they rev many times as fast which causes bearing failure before the brushes would ever need replaced. Being brushed, they are directly speed controlled via voltage and load like a DC motor, also unlike a brushless motor.
That size is roughly 1 to 1.5hp because they can spin 10x+ the 3600 RPM of an AC induction motor, thus they're way smaller and require a fraction of the material versus the long-lasting AC motors used in AC condensers and furnace blowers. They also sometimes have a diode or rectifier before the motor to run them DC in corded drills and other tools/appliances and one major benefit is the ability to control speed with voltage using some sort of analog trigger or dial like in drills and routers.
@@Demoralized88 AC induction motors don't use a permanent magnet. The varying (rotating) magnetic field on the stator poles induces (hence the name) a large current in the conductive bars on the rotor (as the bars are all connected at each end and form shorted turns) which creates the necessary magnetic fields on the rotor.
Small brushless DC motors, which despite their name typically run on something more akin to polyphase AC which is synthesized from the DC supply, usually do use permanent magnets.
“That’s fine, Really, it is” says Mustie as he dumps out all the parts in the bag. Very funny!!
Totally reminded me of Derek from VGG whenever he's looking around at a new revival "That's fine... Really... Nope!"
@@offshackI really tried to watch VGG but it was impossible. Mustie1 though has a genuine humor.
@@Frank-Thoresen I pretty much gave up watching VGG when his videos started being 1.5 to 2 hours long. I still watch him when he does the ones for (I think) Power Nation. It may have been Hagerty or some channel like that. (Motor Trend Channel?) Anyway those videos are normally between 20 and 30 minutes.
@@jeffsnodgrass9747 I do love WatchWesWork. He also has a great humor. Repair cars, tractors and sometimes odd things like a forest harvesting robot that is 20 years old. I like his skills and humor.
This is what makes Mustie a mechanic an not just a parts changer ..problem solving 101
That unit was never meant to be rebuild,....amazing your mechanical/electrical aptitude. Good job Darrin.
I used to so love finding vacuums and these when dumpster diving as a kid. I loved tearing them apart and "inventing" (creating a household hazard) out of the motors and belts and heating elements and stuff. Turned into a valuable skill
" ...we only just miss a couple of screws..
sounds like Story of my life.." 😂😂😂
This reminds me of what happened at our address... the woman I see every morning had borrowed a high-end carpet shampooing thing from Tracy, a friend of hers. It was here for a year before it was ever used. I come back from a business trip, the carpet was mostly clean but my wife says: "it stopped working. I don't know what happened...if you can't fix it, I'll buy Tracy a new one.." It was relatively simple to figure out the many issues: It took some doing to find all the screws and clips holding all the parts together: cleaned the clogged intake, cleaned and re-installed the belt on rotating brush which had come off the drive wheel.. cleaned out the wretched hoonya resulting from the insipid wetness that had been in it for a couple weeks... maybe an hour and a half and it was ready to send back to Tracy....
I wonder if the word hoonya originates from Russian)
@@MrOlegBoldyrev Good question... the guy I learned it from was of Lithuanian descent. He had a very wide-ranging and colorful repertoire of sayings...
I sometimes wonder what the new viewers think. 😅 He likes to keep it funky! I dig it. There’s always something new to see. I’ve learned so much from him. My dad never was very handy. Luckily we have guys like Darren.
@wattsup8407 in my family... we were farm and ranch people. We were not what I would call poor.. but very frugal. We never hired anyone to fix anything we could do ourselves.. and we just kept fixing stuff till it completely fell apart.. one time we had a family gathering... I have 5 brothers and did have 3 sisters... so us guys.... brothers and brother in laws were sitting in the living room....women were in the kitchen ... So one said, "The worst thing about being married to a Dougherty man... you never got anything new....because we fixed everything....even if we had to "rig" it, " another chimed in..."and you never know what you're going to drive from day to day the way they flip cars and trucks. Every time they give you one you like it's sold or traded off next week!" LMAO....
We all started cracking up
Was I the only one hoping the paper towel would get sucked in the intake port? And when it did, laughed like a 5 year old child! Hahaha. Morning all!
Absolutely! Saw that coming a mile away 😂
Same here! Careful it's gonna... And there it goes! FLOOOOOP! I was laughing my ass off! 😂
A little undercut on the commutator, followed by a very fine grit sand paper polish. We used to wrap fine sandpaper on the com with the coarse side facing out. Put the brushes in & slowly turn the armature round. That would help bed the brushes in.
Excessive sparking could also be the sign of a burnt out armature winding.
'Rim fire' ... hard to mistake sound and smell symptoms - faulty rotor winding. Non serviceable component.
The brushes form to the commutator, shaping themselves to the rotation direction. I bet you got them flipped over. That presents the sharp side of the brush to the segments.
What fun, watching a vacuum cleaner mechanic. Thanks for the video!
Good day from South Africa. I've been watching.your video's for about 6 years. Fantastic to see someone that is passionate about "up-cycling" 😂😂😂. Such skills as well as technical trades are dying out globally. Such a pity. I'm 59, retired. Always keep myself busy around the home and vehicles. Very hands on. AI CANNOT replace everything. Keep up the content. You are an inspiration.
They’re probably using this channel to train their models with.
Only disappointment was not seeing Mustie ride it at the end!
Personally I can live without seeing a guy... Ummm... Ride a household appliance.
Maybe on the next washing machine repair.
@@exasperated 🤣
Are you suggesting that he's a new age witch? Swapped out a broomstick for a carpet shampooer.
Not much travel distance though with the cord plugged in.
There's always the inevitable "Part 2" ;-)
I hope you know what you have done. You have shown Mrs. Mustie1 that you can operate a vacuum and clean carpets.
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They didn't follow the directions and probably used Dawn in it. It made so many bubbles they got sucked into the fan of the vacuum. When the bubbles dried they caused the lower bearings to freeze up.
I've rebuilt many vacuums and rug cleaners over the years, and just about all of them came from the curb. I've had my Kirby vacuum cleaner for almost 15 years now, and it still works great. All it needed was cleaning and uncloging. I guess they didn't know that it took a bag because one wasn't used.
People would rather buy new instead of maintaining what they already have.
That feeling when you picked the right bearing out of your stash on the first try. “It can’t be that one can it…no s***…” (19:32). Haha, I got such a kick out of that!
A true horder knows his stash. 👌🏻
Well done, Darren. I’m sure the Mrs is going to love it! 😂
carpet shampooer? OH MY!! great luck on finding the carb on that thing.. LMAO!
I don't laugh out loud very often watching these videos I mostly just chuckle but when that rag went through 😂😂
I loved this video, and was totally amazed that this is back working again. I should never have doubted Mustie’s ability….lol.
I believe that is a "universal" motor. It will run on AC or DC. It will basically run as fast as it physically can. Love my weekly fix of Mustie1
Yes, they are not synchronous.
It is a DC motor. Somewhere in the machine will be two diodes that rectify the AC to DC for the motor. If it has brushes, it is DC.
@@ctvxl I have repaired multiple AC motors that used brushes. Even your older household drills have brushes.
@@ctvxl It's a series wound universal motor. You can tell because the stator has windings. A DC motor would use permanent magnets.
@@ctvxl Nope, You are wrong. No need for 'diodes' to run a Universal on AC supply.
AC and DC motors can use carbon brushes.
Reminds me of our local FixIt shop in the 1980's. They could get parts for Black and Decker, Skill GE and other brands. They put new brushes in my mothers KitchenAid mixer and fixed my circular saw. They wouldn't mess with toasters and coffee pots because the shop labor cost more than the appliance. Most of their repairs were power tools..
Thanks for the great video Mustie. We get many vacuum cleaners with motors like this at our Repair Café so seeing you disassemble this motor is great to see and understand the parts. Great fix.❤
One thing about these small roller bearings: they usually have a base number (like 203 or 206) which is a "group" size designator (all bearings which share that number will have matching inside/outside/height dimensions), and some letters after the number which indicates whether or not it's a sealed bearing and if so, what type of seal it has. Years of working in the auto parts field leave you with some knowledge that may be useful... Love the channel-- hope your neck continues to improve!
ironically enough, I just had to play the wtf bearing is this game on my 1/5 scale RC monster truck. cheap sealed roller bearings barely any identification. after some time with digital caliper, found the OD/ID. turns out bearing is cheap knock off of a Shimano bearing. picked up a box of compatible bearings from local bike shop
FYI, that was not a roller bearing, it was what we engineers call a ballrace! Otherwise, your information was correct. Have a nice day.
That's hilarious. Great Morning! Please for the love of God give that to her for your anniversary and make sure you get it on video for us.
I always try to repair things before buying a replacement, I probably have an 80% success rate. Loved it Mustie.
Only 80%? Disappointing. As seens on this channel, all you need is two buildings and a few garden sheds full of stashed parts to repair nearly everything ;-)
Nice repair Darren! You have always amazed your subs for many years and we do appreciate it!!!!! Thanks for posting and take care!
My dear Mustie you really are a breed apart, the way you work things out is utterly amazing.
This was a great bit of something completely different.
Very enjoyable video to watch.
It is amazing how failure to clean things causes failures, and cleaning things up often fixes them. In this case it need a bearing but there is no doubt in my mind all that dog hair clogging up the machine was what made it fail.
Mustie, you never cease to amaze me. Also your sense of humor along with your time to time chuckles is priceless.
When u saw you dump that bag of parts out I thought there was no way this was going to be working again. Usually these things are cheaply made. That was a nice repair job! Cleaned reassembled and replaced some bearings. Nice job!
Yes the brushes become specific once cut in, look closely you’ll see they are off center and the arch cut into the brush will not match, yeah it’ll be noisy but they recut and that’s what it sounded like when first powered on.
Love your channel! Never miss an episode. Sunday morning ritual for me, wake up, pour a cup off coffee, tut run on my laptop and watch your video. Then I start my day.
Another awesome job Darren, you’re amazing with everything mechanical! The incredible part was reaching in your bearing stash and on the first try finding the right bearing! Mind blowing! Thanks for the fun 👍
As others have said ... commuter needed to be cleaned.
Great episode... same machine same problem here. Neighbors bought a replacement and gave me the old one ... bearing cost me under $10.
Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦
My carpet cleaner probably has about 200 hours on it. One of the things you can do to keep them going is to not let the dirty tank overfill. That's how the water gets in them. There's some water there after use so always run it in a place where it can draw clean dry air to get it out of there before storage. That screeching is usually a sign of bearing that got wet and dried out. They make a "Soapstone" marker looking bar that cleans the commutator. It's been years so I don't remember what it's called. Electric motors run at a multiple of 3 1800-3600-7200 rpms so I would guess maybe 7200 on vacuums to get enough airflow. The one's I've messed with run the brushes with a vacuum motor that uses the vacuum from the machine to turn the scrub brushes.
Mustie1: you are the best mechanic I have ever seen. You stun me with your knowledge, creativity, communication skills! I am so inspired by your passion and commitment. Since I viewed your first You Tube I was hooked. You are my first subscription. I have learned a ton, saved $ and fixed more stuff than ever before. I am in awe of your talent, sense of humor, web format and humility. I love every one of your projects!!! Steven James
Great fix! I had to take ours apart and replace the pump after many many years of service! Keep it up!
Great job, I didn't think that I would enjoy watching you work on a carpet shampooer as much as all your other fixes, it's not what your working on but the technique you us to find the problem, watched till the end....
Oh merde, I just bet my missus 10 euros you weren't going to manage to get it back together, let alone work. She's doing the dance of I told ya so round the house at the moment. Needless to say, your flavour of the month here atm Mustie 😢
Aloha Mustie1. You should have shined up the armature to keep it from sparking so much. The junk on the segments of the armature are what is making it spark. The arc from the brushes to the armature will eventually kill it from all the heat the armature sparking makes. Good job on finding out what was wrong with this machine. The cleaned part of the rug looks a whole lot better than the other side. The muddy recovered water bin shows just how much dirt was in that half of the rug. Great job!!!
Man, I've said it before but I could watch you fix literally anything!
Love Sundays, Coffee, Few fat Spliffs & new mustie1 video.. Looks a real intersting one too, No Carb clean or jumper pack needed😂😂
You sound like a real class act. I'm assuming every day is a Sunday for you.
Really different today. That's not a bad thing.
Have you never owned a carpet shampooer? It's pretty common to have carpet fibers and pet hair intertwined in everything. That's why it's important to clean them out after every use
Just that you literally can't clean the airpath through the motor. You'd thing they would suck fluid through the waste tank but nope.
If you gave the carpet a thorough vacuuming before carpet cleaning, the mess that Mustie cleaned out of it wouldn't have been so bad. Also, not overfilling the waste tank is the other issue.
Amazing ability to entertain and educate with a laid back attitude. Love you content man
I replaced one of the bearings in a motor on my 3D printer. It somehow got moisture in it and was locking up. So i took it off and pullwd it apart, same thing, one bearing was puking rust. I popped a new one if for lume $0.25 and bang, works like new! I felt so proud of myself lol
Great fix! Never once did I doubt you Mustie.
Good afternoon fellow Mustie1 fans, from Lincolnshire, UK 🇬🇧.
The Lincoln imp....😅😊
@@associatedblacksheepandmisfits 👍
Good morning from the US!
good morning from sunny Florida.
Good morning from the USA!
After decades of being submerged in salt water. If and when Amelia Earhart's lost plane is recovered Darren should head up the team to get her back up and running again. I am certain that our friend Mustie would perform a quick assessment - check for spark and bottle feed the fuel system and the old Lockheed Electra would spark back to life. Always amazed at your willingness to figure out what happened to any item. Then educate and entertain us with your knowledge and your one of a kind Mustie 1 humor and analogies. Keeping your health issues in prayer. Already looking forward to your next weekly project.
Thank you for all the great weekly videos !!!!
Just trash-picked a table sander with a bad idler pulley bearing recently. While i dont have quite the extensive stash of parts as you Mustie1, i was able to repair it with $6 of Amazon bearings and some research since Royobi "no longer makes" them. I just searched the p/n on the bearing - ALL bearings have a number on them!
Get well soon Sir!
Not all bearings have the part numbers on them, some they've worn off! That's always annoying lol, but you can measure them
Only Mustie can make a bag of trash into a top notch educational video! Just another of the many reasons I have been tuning in every week for years!! Thanx for the wonderful vids! Keep them coming!
Lots of sparks from those brushes!
Congratulations on getting the puzzle back together!!
Only Mustie could get me to watch a carpet cleaner video! Well done sir.
I gave this little chance when you unbagged it. Every time I try something like this the motor is either fried beyond repair or something plastic is too broke to fix. Just a bearing! Well done.
It absolutely amazes me how you can disassemble a motor on anything and figure out how it works and most of the time get it working if possible. Wish you were my next door neighbor, lol.
Great to see a very different machine being worked on - I wonder what other "rebuilds " Mrs Mustie must have in their home 😂😂
They probably still have the mower Mustie accidentaly drove through her flower beds. And i'm pretty sure i've seen the 1960s(?) tiller in some somewhat recent background shots?
Not too awfully long ago, my father in law worked for a company in Ohio who made vacuum cleaner motors. They had the unit cost down to $3 per motor, material and labor included, out the door; and in his words, it was a "doggoned good motor that would last forever." The company came back and told them to cheapen the motor so they could sell more sweepers.
Was not expecting an hour long carpet cleaner repair video but fine by me 😂
Incredible you fixed plastic junk. You made it look easy.
the dreaded ac/dc universal motor, induction motors are far superior and easier to repait. you definetly have a commutator/brush problem. cleaning brush material out of the gaps in commutator will help and you may have to do a couple of times as the brushes get reshaped.
the speed of those universal motors is determined only by the power available and the drag of whatever it's hooked up to. it will run at the same speed regardless of the frequency, it will actually run off battery power if there is enough volts and amps.
an induction motor will run at a fixed speed determined by the frequency of the ac supply, usually 3450 or 1725 rpm on 60 hz
I have never once found a guy that was as good a handyman as you, i tend to be one myself but would've never touched that thing
Very entertaining
"It's a military problem solving IQ test!" Didn't know if I wanted to watch but stayed til the end. The solution was simple when you got to the core, and "It pays to be a hoarder!" LOL! Many "inexpensive" Chinese made tools are not for long term use. The engineered load on the motor factored in towards the end. Like your problem solving. Used similar strategy putting static ground onto my little metal cannister dust collector when sanding with my oscillating sander in winter. Your discussing problems and solutions has been helpful when tackling small engines and lawn mowers. I'm definitely a lot more patient. LOL!
Dr Mustie saves another patient. A job well done good Dr. Great as always.
My goodness! Is there anything this man can’t fix! 😮 As always, good job Sir!😊
I really enjoy these more unusual equipment videos, thank you!
Not sure if there is anything you can't fix, thoroughly impressed. Nice change of pace video.
If anyone tuned in at 53:30 they'd be like... "OK... mustie1 has finally lost it... he's taken leave of his senses... he's actually rug washing his lift... " 😂
Excellent video @mustie1. We learn so much from your knowledge and wisdom.
Awesome fix and it seems to clean good.
Universal motors such as the ones used in vacuum cleaners and blenders can run on AC or DC power. I once ran a circular saw off a 12v car battery charger but not fast enough to cut wood. But it spun.
Wowza!!!
Holy crap man…is there anything that you can’t bring back to life…?!?
Extraordinary…!!!
Never would have guessed you would get that thing working when you dumped it out of the bag. Nice job 👍
That's not a fan, it's the impeller for creating the vacuum
You beat me to it Water transmission
Great content. Love learning the Mustie diagnosis method, anybody can swap parts, it takes a lot of skill to figure out the problem.
I was wondering who took my vacuum? 😂 Another great video
Great job on that "simple" fix. I have found "curb find" vacuum cleaners before that just needed the switch or a drive belt replaced.
Thanks for the shop time Mustie1! Nice save!
Past 2 months i had 3 newly bought light weed wackers geting broke in less than 2h and going back for warranty. All with different issues.
1st one broke due to losing the cutting blade from the plastic insert, then changed brand to ryobi.
Fist ryobi broke either was the engine or the on/off switch (got dead) and the second one the brass washer that guides the nylon cutting wire began falling appart, causing it either to get stuck or break all the time.
This chinesium plastic is getting out of control. I would rather get something semi-broken but fixable with over 20-30years.
That's what I like about Daren you never know what he's going to work on 👍😊
Hey Darren. A buddy of mine that has a auto detail shop turned me on to a trade secret for carpet and upholstery cleaning when using an extractor. Liquid Car Wash soap. I use Blue Coral as it's what he uses.. mix 50/50 with water to pretreat bad stains. Wet the stain down, scrub with a brush. Then mix your soap into the machine tank ....I use about a cup for every gallon of water... go over the carpet... If you have the option to shut off vac...in bad areas...go over it a few times and scrub it good, then extract it. You'll be amazed at how much crap that soap will pull out of your carpet and upholstery.
The motor is a universal motor. It's basically a DC motor with the stator windings connected together with the armature, so the magnetic field is always aligned in the right direction regardless of polarity. Those motors can run on either AC or DC. So the RPM doesn't depend on line frequency.
Alright, color me impressed. After literal years of Mustie1 I thought he couldn't top himself, and then he gets a trash bag full of misc parts and turns it into a functional member of society again.
I did not see this one coming at all. Bravo, good sir. Bravo.
Thanks Mustie1. I enjoyed the segway into custodial tool repair. Hope your neck feels better soon.
Great job Darren, i didn’t know what to expect,great work…
Nice job depopulating the land fill. I think it's great the way you take on a variety of projects. Especially in this case where the parts count was probably 80% plastic! The sparkage on that motor when you put it back together was something else, LOL. You probably could have arc welded with that! A light bulb came on when you took apart that blower cage. I have a fan motor from one of those Costco Winix air purifiers that is that is making some noise. It's similarly smushed together like the blower In this unit.
I've wanted to do that but never thought it would actually work again. Cool video saving some could've been trash!
Love it! Darren's first shot at a clapped out vacuum cleaner! Awesome video as always!
I take my hat off and bow my head sir, that was one helluva basket case. I would’ve just thrown it in the garbage. Lol
Nothing says Fun like Sparks an Smoke!!!; )
As a Mustieteer I approve of that donation 😊
wow Richard thank you,
I have a Dremel tool where the same sort of bearing gave up. I was amazed to find it was actually available from a bearing manufacturer. Dremel didn't have it. I guess Dremel would rather you buy a new and improved model than fix your existing tool.
Nice work! In the previous owners defense, even if you use a regular vacuum and vacuum the hell out of the carpet you intend to clean, these shampooers are so powerful they will always make it look like you did not vacuum, they find all that hidden crap, ask me how I know.. Thanks Mustie1!
This was great. He really does fix every darn thing! 😊👍👍