Thread Number: 33436
/ Tag: 80s/90s Vacuum Cleaners
Kirby G series issues |
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Post# 364382   12/30/2016 at 10:34 (2,670 days old) by icee (Indiana)   |   | |
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Post# 364397 , Reply# 1   12/30/2016 at 12:22 (2,670 days old) by sptyks (Skowhegan, Maine)   |   | |
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Post# 364404 , Reply# 2   12/30/2016 at 15:36 (2,670 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina)   |   | |
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No problems at all with any of my three G's, at least nothing that couldn't be attributed to normal wear and tear and which was also easily repairable. That said, it would be fairly logical to see the G-series and newer machines as potentially more failure prone since they're more complex (i.e., more that can go wrong) than their predecessors.
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Post# 364430 , Reply# 3   12/30/2016 at 22:33 (2,670 days old) by icee (Indiana)   |   | |
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It must just be my luck right now then, actually with most kirbys I'm running into right now. I had a g5 that I had picked up for an aunt of mine. Motor sounded good and strong. Put a brand new belt on it. But as soon as the head just touches the carpet, it completely stops spinning. There no belt sliping either. It just like grabs hold of the carpet and locks it up. Actually I'm having some more potential problems with my older kirbys tonight as well. I just bought a kirby classic omega. Cleaned the bag out, new belt, etc. But when it's running, it sounds like metalic sheering? Maybe sheering isn't the best description, but I havn't heard a kirby sound like this before. And I know it's a metal fan, so I could be uneducated and it could be the metal fan ones are supposed to sound metallic. But I also have a Sanitronic series one and it doesn't have that metallic sound. I'm starting to get really frustrated lol
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Post# 364449 , Reply# 4   12/31/2016 at 00:20 (2,670 days old) by chicagomike (Plover, WI)   |   | |
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Post# 364450 , Reply# 5   12/31/2016 at 00:24 (2,670 days old) by chicagomike (Plover, WI)   |   | |
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take the g5 completely apart too as more is going on then you are describing - so I bet once apart you will see there are some other obvious issues going on. There are only a handful of screws holding everything together. Do not take apart the handle pivot spring, leave it in its carriage as it takes special tools to re-align it. Nothing else inside the vac takes any special tool.
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Post# 364472 , Reply# 6   12/31/2016 at 09:58 (2,669 days old) by icee (Indiana)   |   | |
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Post# 365104 , Reply# 8   1/14/2017 at 11:05 (2,655 days old) by icee (Indiana)   |   | |
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Post# 365111 , Reply# 9   1/14/2017 at 11:56 (2,655 days old) by sptyks (Skowhegan, Maine)   |   | |
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Post# 365170 , Reply# 10   1/15/2017 at 16:55 (2,654 days old) by vacuumkid47 (Sibley, IA)   |   | |
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