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Thread Number: 29175
/ Tag: 80s/90s Vacuum Cleaners
Do you always clean the commutator? |
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| Post# 325937 5/28/2015 at 15:06 (3,248 days old) by vacuumlover (UK) | ||
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Well, just as the title says. I usually do, I'm just curious if other people always do. | ||
| Post# 325938 , Reply# 1 5/28/2015 at 15:19 (3,248 days old) by Jeschbac (Texas) | ||
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always If I have a Kirby disassembled to that point, there's no reason not to give it a taste of the "stick." | ||
| Post# 325991 , Reply# 3 5/28/2015 at 22:55 (3,248 days old) by mchmike (West palm beach fl) | ||
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I find e- Luke's usually calm down after a week of use . They really don't like being cleaned. | ||
| Post# 326032 , Reply# 4 5/29/2015 at 14:01 (3,247 days old) by vacuumlover (UK) | ||
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I use either wet and dry sand paper (If a bit pitted, only happened once though) or most of the time fine steel wool. And yes, I do make sure all the wire is gone. I love seeing a nice clean commy :P
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| Post# 326033 , Reply# 5 5/29/2015 at 14:32 (3,247 days old) by chicagomike (Plover, WI) | ||
What I do
Hand sanding really cleans the part and makes it look pretty. But unless you watch the vacuum running to observe if the carbon brushes are sparking excessively or not, you really do not know if the cleaning of the part did anything more then just cleaning it. The goal of cleaning the commutator is to reduce the excessive arching between the carbon and the copper.
Try using a product like the attached photo. But before using it start the vacuum and look at both brushes to see if they are arching excessively, if they are or just one is, apply the stone to it while running and you will know it worked when the arching almost disappears. Be sure to do it to both brushes if they are both arching excessively.... I successfully clean the G series on every machine I rebuild using the stone. And from the advice of another collector they told me to do the process on all the machines. So I can now say as of yesterday I also successfully cleaned the commutator using the stone on a D80, Classic, Omega, Classic III and a Tradition -- and the before and after arching was drastically reduced... CLICK HERE TO GO TO chicagomike's LINK
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| Post# 326064 , Reply# 7 5/29/2015 at 22:38 (3,247 days old) by chicagomike (Plover, WI) | ||
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