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Thread Number: 34670
/ Tag: Brand New Vacuum Cleaners
Kirby Rug Shampoo System |
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| Post# 374452 6/26/2017 at 07:42 (2,489 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
Here's a question for all the Kirby fans out there:
How does the Kirby prevent suds and shampoo and liquid from entering the fan chamber when used in shampoo mode? Our friend Roger Sensotronic Ibaisaic has a great demonstration video on YouTube and after watching it, it dawned on me that the fan chamber does not seem to have any barrier whatsoever to protect it from the carpet shampoo being flung around by the brush roll. And I imagine it still creates suction in the brush roll cavity. Is it not damaging to the fan and belt spindle to get shampoo caked onto them? Or does the user have to somehow open up the fan chamber and rinse off all the shampoo residue after each shampoo job? | ||
| Post# 374460 , Reply# 2 6/26/2017 at 10:05 (2,489 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
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Post# 374461 , Reply# 3 6/26/2017 at 10:57 (2,489 days old) by KirbyClassicIII  (Milwaukie, Oregon) |
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| Post# 374463 , Reply# 4 6/26/2017 at 11:40 (2,489 days old) by Kirbysthebest (Midwest) | ||
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Remember: the air-flow is already greatly reduced due to the back pressure caused by the suds tank. The air vents bleed the suction away from the nozzle directly into the fan. But the air going through is far reduced from when a bag is on the blower end.
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| Post# 374465 , Reply# 5 6/26/2017 at 13:11 (2,489 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
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| Post# 374479 , Reply# 6 6/26/2017 at 17:54 (2,489 days old) by Miskini (Northville, Michigan ) | ||
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| Post# 374532 , Reply# 7 6/27/2017 at 12:30 (2,488 days old) by sptyks (Skowhegan, Maine) | ||
 Brian,
To answer your first question: No water or suds can enter the fan chamber if you have assembled and installed the shampoo system correctly. There is a series of rubber baffles which act like squeegees to scrape the excess suds into the waste chamber. These baffles also block any liquid from getting into the fan chamber. Also the suds tank provides some back pressure into the fan chamber which reduces most of the airflow so there is very little suction available to pull in any liquid.
I have shampooed my carpet many times and there has never been any evidence that any liquid has gotten into the fan chamber.
Second question: If you want to open your fan cast to inspect or clean it and you can use a screwdriver, then you should not have any problem doing this easy maintenance. Here is a link to an excellent You Tube video that shows you step by step instructions on disassembling your Kirby to replace the fan. If your fan is in good shape, just clean it and the fan case if needed and reassemble in reverse order:
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| Post# 374613 , Reply# 9 6/28/2017 at 19:56 (2,487 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
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