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Rainbow Powerhead Bearings..?? |
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Post# 160177 , Reply# 1   11/26/2011 at 05:53 (4,534 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa)   |   | |
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Post# 160188 , Reply# 3   11/26/2011 at 08:04 (4,534 days old) by scvacuumguy (SC)   |   | |
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Post# 160190 , Reply# 4   11/26/2011 at 08:53 (4,534 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa)   |   | |
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That's true to a point , As scvacuum guy says you can damage them especially if you do not have the right equipment , bearing pullers wont do . We use a Pneumatic press with special plates that I had made to remove the bearing and on some brush bar motors the cooling fan.
However he is right if the bearing is already gone its not worth it , It would have damaged the com and armiture badly, however if they are just loud and dry then we do them. What I would suggest you do though is find out what a new motor costs. here in SA they are very expensive but it mght be worth your while to just replace.
what I did find out though is that some of the LG bagless upright vacuums use the same motor to drive there brush roll, Identical just plug and play.
In SA the market is much smaller so things get expensive so we learn how to fix them.
If my vac store was in the USA in one of the bigger city's I probably would just replace the motor. Its more effective and you won't have a comeback as a shop owner.
Gareth |