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| Post# 128155 3/22/2011 at 13:15 (4,777 days old) by shag (Ontario, Canada) | ||
This is the Air Way I picked up on the curb last summer.
It smelled so bad of smoke, I cleaned as much as I could and banished it to the cellar, not basement, mud cellar. I had forgotten about it till yesterday. For some reason, the dirt absorbed a lot of the odour. I realized it was no place for a vacuum and brought it out. Again, I tried it, a bit of suction and still sounds like a blender chopping concrete. I have looked on the inter net and can find very little about them or where to get them serviced, maybe I am looking in the wrong spots? I called 3 vacuum service centers in the next large city. One had never heard of Air Way, the second said they could maybe fix or replace the motor, depending if it was one they could reorder. The third place asked the make again and said I have a giant paper weight. 
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| Post# 128156 , Reply# 1 3/22/2011 at 13:19 (4,777 days old) by shag (Ontario, Canada) | ||
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| Post# 128157 , Reply# 2 3/22/2011 at 13:20 (4,777 days old) by scvacuumguy (SC) | ||
If it doesn't have a ton of suction, I would imagine one of the fans has worn out in the motor. This is popular in some canisters- older Filter Queens and Electroluxes especially. As long as the motor doesn't have any sort of strange smell coming from it, there's no reason the fan couldn't be replaced.
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| Post# 128158 , Reply# 3 3/22/2011 at 13:23 (4,777 days old) by shag (Ontario, Canada) | ||
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| Post# 128172 , Reply# 4 3/22/2011 at 15:06 (4,776 days old) by piano_god (British Columbia, Canada) | ||
Even though I have never seen an Air Way in person, I am sure it would probably have an industry standard two-stage Lamb motor in it.
If my assumption is correct, parts for the motor should be available through most (if not all) vacuum stores. In the worst case senario, it could possibly be replaced with a Ametek Lamb 116311-01. Anyone know for sure? | ||
| Post# 128177 , Reply# 5 3/22/2011 at 16:07 (4,776 days old) by scvacuumguy (SC) | ||
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| Post# 128239 , Reply# 6 3/22/2011 at 21:56 (4,776 days old) by djtaylor (Salt Lake City, Utah) | ||
Don't toss it out....
Please, please, please don't toss it out. If it needs a motor you can find one on-line or from a vac shop. If it's too expensive to fix, sell it or give it to someone on the forum. I sold the base model Air Way Saniclean in my shop in the early 2000's. I wish I had kept one for myself, but did not. Now, they are out of business. Every time an Air Way shows up on eBay I try to get it. They were very good vacuums.
Justin | ||
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