Thread Number: 32925
/ Tag: 50s/60s/70s Vacuum Cleaners
How The #@&% Do You Get This Kirby Belt Lifter Off??? |
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Post# 360165   9/30/2016 at 16:03 (2,736 days old) by Suckomatic (Deer Park)   |   | |
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I'm trying to restore this Classic III.(which is in far worse shape than it looked in the Ebay photo).
I have a new belt lifter to put on it, but I can't figure out how to get the old one off. I could just break it off, I guess, but I'm afraid I might break important retaining clips or something. I've sprayed it with penetrating oil and pried it to the breaking point with a screwdriver, but it doesn't budge. Thanks for your time. I really appreciate all this Vacuumland help! |
Post# 360167 , Reply# 1   9/30/2016 at 16:51 (2,736 days old) by bikerray (Middle Earth)   |   | |
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Post# 360170 , Reply# 2   9/30/2016 at 18:53 (2,736 days old) by Caligula (Wallingford, Connecticut)   |   | |
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Post# 360173 , Reply# 3   9/30/2016 at 19:14 (2,736 days old) by KirbyClassicIII (Milwaukie, Oregon)   |   | |
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Here are a few pictures from a CIII service manual (courtesy: chicagomike) to assist you...
~Ben |
Post# 360191 , Reply# 4   10/1/2016 at 07:49 (2,735 days old) by Suckomatic (Deer Park)   |   | |
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Post# 360192 , Reply# 5   10/1/2016 at 07:55 (2,735 days old) by Suckomatic (Deer Park)   |   | |
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Post# 360198 , Reply# 6   10/1/2016 at 12:59 (2,735 days old) by KirbyClassicIII (Milwaukie, Oregon)   |   | |
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Post# 360273 , Reply# 7   10/3/2016 at 13:18 (2,733 days old) by Suckomatic (Deer Park)   |   | |
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Somebody could have warned me about how difficult it is to change the belt lifter on a Classic III.
I'm very mechanically inclined, and have been taking things apart and rebuilding them since I was a child, but THIS frackin' thing! I mean, holy FART. It would take Stephen Hawking with three functioning hands to get this right. I managed to wonk it up so badly, I'm just going to buy a whole new carpet nozzle. |
Post# 360274 , Reply# 8   10/3/2016 at 13:20 (2,733 days old) by pr-21 (Middletown, OH)   |   | |
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Post# 360279 , Reply# 9   10/3/2016 at 14:00 (2,733 days old) by KirbyClassicIII (Milwaukie, Oregon)   |   | |
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Kelly,
http://www.ebay.com/itm/KIRBY-CLASSIC-II... (you may find this link interesting -- but it has no lifter assembly included, so you will have to buy one of those, too.)
~Ben |
Post# 360281 , Reply# 10   10/3/2016 at 14:09 (2,733 days old) by Suckomatic (Deer Park)   |   | |
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I imagine EVERY model is easier than the Classic III.
It's that stupid useless window, sorry, the "Belt-O-Vision", or whatever they called it, that makes it so complicated. I wonder how that even made it into production. There's no light inside the nozzle. It's black as night in there. You can't see a thing! Useless. |
Post# 360285 , Reply# 11   10/3/2016 at 14:24 (2,733 days old) by Suckomatic (Deer Park)   |   | |
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Nice find, but that would put me right back where I started.
I've had plenty of fun trying to assemble that #@&% lifter. I am done. This is what I had in mind.... :)
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Post# 360288 , Reply# 12   10/3/2016 at 14:30 (2,733 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640)   |   | |
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Post# 360295 , Reply# 13   10/3/2016 at 15:34 (2,733 days old) by KirbyClassicIII (Milwaukie, Oregon)   |   | |
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