Thread Number: 42082  /  Tag: 80s/90s Vacuum Cleaners
Hoover TurboPower Motor
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Post# 443706   7/8/2021 at 11:32 (994 days old) by vacuuman101 (Vermont )        

Hi all, I have a mid 90's Hoover TurboPower 4500 that was a major childhood vac of mine and I recently got it back and started fixing it up after it sat for 10 years in garages, basements and covered outdoors. I plugged it in and it came to life! It was only the my parents main vacuum for a few years before a Kenmore Progressive canister which I fixed up once but is on my list to get back to working order. But I tore the Hoover apart and cleaned it, ordered a new fan that I'm still waiting on to come in, bags, belts, even found replacement height wheels, all its missing is the lower wand and hose holder. But I got it together and ran it for a minute with the old cracked fan just to see what would happen and the fan started to melt to the housing and I smelt a burning smell almost like electrical and smelled it again when I ran it with no fan. I noticed some grinding inside when I spun the motor spindle by hand. Can this be fixed? Maybe oiled or rebuilt? If anyone has advice I would greatly appreciate it! (Or knows where I could find the wand holder) I'm not looking to have it be a daily driver or anything, but I would like to be able to use it once in a blue moon or at least once.
Thanks,


Post# 443743 , Reply# 1   7/9/2021 at 21:34 (993 days old) by MadMan (Chicago, IL, USA)        

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I'm gonna go out on a limb and say the carbon brushes are stuck, and possibly the bearings are bad. From what it sounds like, this machine has sat unused for a very long time, in less than ideal conditions. The motor simply needs to come out and be gone through.


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