Thread Number: 38080
/ Tag: Recent Vacuum Cleaners from past 20 years
Kirby broken front wheel axle! |
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Post# 405734 , Reply# 1   2/20/2019 at 17:59 (1,863 days old) by vexorgtr (Sheffield, Ohio)   |   | |
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I actually got to go to the Cleveland area factory that chrome plated Kirby parts. Chrome plating is nasty business. |
Post# 405736 , Reply# 2   2/20/2019 at 20:32 (1,863 days old) by MadMan (Chicago, IL, USA)   |   | |
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I applaud you for trying to improvise something! If I may offer a piece of advice, it looks like the original part was pot metal. The serrated shaft ends will prefer a soft metal to be driven into, so they get create grooves and get stuck. Aluminum would probably be your best bet. Steel is doable, but it would take more force to drive in the shafts, and/or more precise holes. I suppose you could just make the holes too big and add set screws.
Does one end have a set screw in the original? |
Post# 405737 , Reply# 3   2/20/2019 at 20:46 (1,863 days old) by huskyvacs (Gnaw Bone, Indiana)   |   | |
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It's only $18.95 for a front axle. Throw it out and buy a new part.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Kirby-Front-Whe... You will spend more money and time to fix that and have a poor repair than it would be to just replace the part. It's not rare or hard to find. It is cast aluminum so it cannot be repaired by welding, and it is a high stress part so it would just end up breaking again at its weakest point, which would be the weld. I would not endorse homemade botch job repairs on vacuums to be resold to others. Imagine if the official Kirby Refurb Center did that to people! The only time it makes sense to make parts from scratch is in the case of my Hoover Z700 when all parts are not in stock anywhere either online or in the real world and haven't been for decades and no private owners have parts for sale. |
Post# 405743 , Reply# 4   2/20/2019 at 23:22 (1,863 days old) by Lesinutah (Utah)   |   | |
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