Thread Number: 13839
Cracked Fan in my Kirby Heritage |
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Post# 146599   8/11/2011 at 08:17 (4,613 days old) by craig_1982 (Newcastle Under Lyme (England))   |   | |
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Hoovering yesterday everything going fine until I heard a horrible noise coming from the Kirby. I removed the front nozzle to discover the fan had cracked a quarter of the way around.It's a bit strange as to why it cracked, nothing unusual was sucked up- just one of them thing's. I spent a couple of hour's stripping the machine, replacing the fan impeller and also replacing a bearing and taking the opportunity to give the motor a good looking at and cleaning. All fine now and running sweet here's some picture's I took whilst repairing it... |
Post# 146600 , Reply# 1   8/11/2011 at 08:25 (4,613 days old) by vinvac (Dubuque IA)   |   | |
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Post# 146664 , Reply# 4   8/11/2011 at 17:59 (4,613 days old) by Craig_1982 (Newcastle Under Lyme (England))   |   | |
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Hi Steve you say the lexan fan only lasts about 5 years, but would this be based on using the machine say once a day over that period? because is what I found strange this Kirby has not done a lot of work in it's lifetime, the original owner who I know very well only used it a handful of times from new, then stored it for many years untouched until I brought it off him 2 year ago. When I brought it off him I stripped the machine down checked it over and at the time the fan appeared to be in good condition, and also with having other Kirby's in my collection I tend to alternate which one I use and this Heritage has not been used properly for several months, it was only running for a couple of minutes when it broke also. |
Post# 146775 , Reply# 6   8/12/2011 at 06:34 (4,612 days old) by Craig_1982 (Newcastle Under Lyme (England))   |   | |
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Post# 146959 , Reply# 10   8/13/2011 at 15:49 (4,611 days old) by Craig_1982 (Newcastle Under Lyme (England))   |   | |
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Post# 366078 , Reply# 12   2/3/2017 at 14:36 (2,610 days old) by KirbyClassicIII (Milwaukie, Oregon)   |   | |
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Post# 366080 , Reply# 13   2/3/2017 at 15:48 (2,610 days old) by craig_1982 (Newcastle Under Lyme (England))   |   | |
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Ben, I had another lexan fan go in a similar way, In fact it wasn't so long ago, This was in Hose configuration and I wasn't even actually using it when it broke. I had left it running (hose draped over bag topper) whilst I moved some furniture around and whilst doing it I heard that horrible terminal noise, I replaced the fan with a Kevlar one which are in virtually all my older Kirby's now, looking at the old fan it looked very similar to the one in my first post just with a bigger crack. So now if I purchase a Kirby with a Lexan fan I change it when I do the restore or Inspection clean.
Craig. |
Post# 366092 , Reply# 14   2/3/2017 at 19:47 (2,610 days old) by KirbyClassicIII (Milwaukie, Oregon)   |   | |
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Post# 366121 , Reply# 15   2/4/2017 at 12:53 (2,609 days old) by sptyks (Skowhegan, Maine)   |   | |
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Post# 366516 , Reply# 16   2/10/2017 at 16:03 (2,603 days old) by craig_1982 (Newcastle Under Lyme (England))   |   | |
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I read somewhere or about a salesman that used a coin as a fan/pickup test on Demo's I was amazed after reading this because once the fan on my Sentria got destroyed after accidentally hoovering up a coin, Obviously I try to avoid any large heavy objects going up any Kirby that I have so when this happened It was annoying but I thought it was a normal thing to happen until I read that about the salesman, bad luck? bad manufacturing who knows modern fans are a lot better than the old lexan ones but I guess like anything their not Indestructible.
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Post# 366549 , Reply# 17   2/11/2017 at 11:44 (2,602 days old) by sptyks (Skowhegan, Maine)   |   | |
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Post# 366550 , Reply# 18   2/11/2017 at 12:29 (2,602 days old) by craig_1982 (Newcastle Under Lyme (England))   |   | |
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It most probably was bad luck I have started using my Girlfriends Miele cylinder vac for the car and other areas where there's the possibility of large foreign objects, I agree with you on replacing the fan being a easy chore to do, in fact If I had to replace a fan at all I'd rather it be on a Generation model than a older model just seems so much easier to get at.
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