Thread Number: 39722
/ Tag: 80s/90s Vacuum Cleaners
The worst condition royal you’ve ever seen. |
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Post# 421599 , Reply# 1   3/14/2020 at 10:31 (1,474 days old) by crazykirbydude (Lexington, KY)   |   | |
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Post# 421601 , Reply# 2   3/14/2020 at 11:33 (1,474 days old) by KirbyClassicIII (Milwaukie, Oregon)   |   | |
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Post# 421606 , Reply# 3   3/14/2020 at 13:30 (1,474 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina)   |   | |
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Post# 421613 , Reply# 7   3/14/2020 at 14:48 (1,474 days old) by huskyvacs (Gnaw Bone, Indiana)   |   | |
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This is not "the worst" at all. Why are people afraid of rust so badly? I don't get it. There is something called a WIRE BRUSH and SANDPAPER.
Also vacuums are never an investment. You cannot get something for free and fix it for free, and you cannot get a vacuum for $5 and expect to spend $5 fixing it. I've paid $10 for a vacuum and spent $60 getting it back to museum condition. Give it a full teardown, clean it up and wash it, take the motor apart and clean it up, give it fresh grease and polish the armature, new carbon brushes, etc, then put it all back together and polish it. I paid $60 for this Kirby G5 that was left in a leaky moldy basement for decades and she still works perfectly. Just needs to be cleaned up, polished, and the transmission rebuilt. I also have a Bee-Vac that was left in a barn and is totally locked up, and its 100 years old. |
Post# 421619 , Reply# 8   3/14/2020 at 16:26 (1,474 days old) by KirbyClassicIII (Milwaukie, Oregon)   |   | |
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Post# 421650 , Reply# 10   3/15/2020 at 00:44 (1,474 days old) by crazykirbydude (Lexington, KY)   |   | |
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I usually just drill the screw heads off and then remove the rest with some channel locks. I did that to a Garry when one of the screw heads broke off. If there's enough screw shaft left, I will tighten my drill chuck down on it and simply reverse it out. Then again, I've never owned or worked on a Royal metal upright, so the situation might be different.
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Post# 421651 , Reply# 11   3/15/2020 at 00:49 (1,474 days old) by MadMan (Chicago, IL, USA)   |   | |
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If it's that rusty and frozen motor, it was almost certainly left in a basement that flooded. My Cadillac was in a similar condition, the fan case had a water line corroded into the aluminum.
Do these have ball bearings or sleeve bearings? If it has sleeve bearings, the actual death knell for this machine will be if the armature shaft bearing surfaces are rusted and pitted. Which is a very real possibility given this machine has clearly been in water for a while. But then again, you could probably get a new armature, but there comes a point where you'd almost be building a new machine from scratch. |
Post# 421872 , Reply# 13   3/18/2020 at 21:44 (1,470 days old) by Lesinutah (Utah)   |   | |
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I'm trying to understand the spring.
I've taken a couple of pics of 3 of my royals. This may help you with the spring. Les |
Post# 421886 , Reply# 14   3/19/2020 at 11:46 (1,469 days old) by Oldskoolguy (Chicago and Orlando)   |   | |
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Les, the spring actually goes with the hook. It prevents it from flopping around and keeps The hook still . It’s the same way with a Kirby cord hook (ones that turn obviously). |
Post# 421891 , Reply# 16   3/19/2020 at 15:35 (1,469 days old) by KirbyClassicIII (Milwaukie, Oregon)   |   | |
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Post# 421907 , Reply# 17   3/19/2020 at 19:23 (1,469 days old) by Lesinutah (Utah)   |   | |
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Post# 422901 , Reply# 19   4/6/2020 at 20:49 (1,451 days old) by MadMan (Chicago, IL, USA)   |   | |
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Post# 422914 , Reply# 20   4/6/2020 at 21:56 (1,451 days old) by Lesinutah (Utah)   |   | |
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I'd say heat it up but with chemicals around it will ignite. Here is a few possible solutions. You get access to armature. You can still a small hole in it. You then use ice pick or Allen wrench in hole while you twist it off. You hold vacuum impellor up. Get a rubber mallet and whack it once or twice. If you know where the bearing plate screws are drill those out. You could then pull armature out with the fan. There is one more thing. If the impellor is seperate from the fan, hold the fan spin the impellor off. I'd spray WD 40 let it sit spray it down with water cleaning some gunk off. Coca cola is something that says away stuff. If you rip apart the fan the fan will cost you more than you can get outta the vacuum. Les I feel like my answers were all like commercial for all state the methods of mayhem guy. |