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Thread Number: 43256
/ Tag: 50s/60s/70s Vacuum Cleaners
I accidentally bought another vacuum today. |
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| Post# 452089 , Reply# 1 4/27/2022 at 15:36 (722 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa) | ||
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| Post# 452090 , Reply# 2 4/27/2022 at 15:56 (722 days old) by dysonman1 (the county) | ||
I love the Silverado. One of my all-time favorites.
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| Post# 452091 , Reply# 3 4/27/2022 at 16:08 (722 days old) by ecaden1 (clayton,NC) | ||
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I took the power nozzle apart and oiled the motor (which uses sleeve bearings) and it sounds and runs a lot better. It was pretty stiff. are the bearings in the motor sleeve type bushings as well, or are they ball bearings? | ||
| Post# 452095 , Reply# 4 4/27/2022 at 18:43 (721 days old) by royalsuper (france ) | ||
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| Post# 452098 , Reply# 6 4/27/2022 at 18:58 (721 days old) by bikerray (Middle Earth) | ||
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| Post# 452099 , Reply# 7 4/27/2022 at 19:03 (721 days old) by ecaden1 (clayton,NC) | ||
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cool, I guess I should probably eventually lubricate that as well. | ||
| Post# 452100 , Reply# 8 4/27/2022 at 19:25 (721 days old) by bikerray (Middle Earth) | ||
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I wanted to make sure we are talking about the motor in the Silverado. It uses the same motor as the Super J.
If you look at the back end of the motor it will have a cap over the end of the armature. Under that cap will be a felt disk that has oil on it to lubricate the sintered bronze sleeve. The ball bearing is in the plate under the fans and fan housing. | ||
| Post# 452102 , Reply# 9 4/27/2022 at 19:44 (721 days old) by bikerray (Middle Earth) | ||
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If you have a plastic bridge over the back of the motor instead of the metal casting you will have ball bearings at both ends of the armature.
Sorry I can't remember if the started the plastic bridge with the Silverado or it was later. The rear bearing fits into the plastic bridge and there are a couple of holes next to the bearing one of which will have a small rubber ball in the hole to keep the bearing outer race from spinning. | ||
| Post# 452104 , Reply# 11 4/27/2022 at 20:32 (721 days old) by ecaden1 (clayton,NC) | ||
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Of course now the cord reel is acting up, I didn't even mess with it. I will have to take it back apart and see what I did. | ||
| Post# 452106 , Reply# 13 4/27/2022 at 20:48 (721 days old) by ecaden1 (clayton,NC) | ||
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I was actually wondering about that myself. I thought at first it was missing/broken, but nothing is missing/broken and it does not look like someone messed with it. | ||
| Post# 452107 , Reply# 14 4/27/2022 at 21:02 (721 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina) | ||
It was waiting for you...
Yeah, $40 really isn't bad for that machine, especially with the power nozzle. I saw an Olympia one with the flippy floor tool from a 1205 and a set of aluminum wands at a thrift store here for that price last year. I ended up paying $10 more for a Kirby Sentria with a full set of accessories that was next to it instead but the Olympia sold quickly to someone else.
The Silverados are really good machines. I've got one that I snatched from the jaws of death a couple of years ago. It was pretty beaten down but I just couldn't bear to part it out so I resurrected it instead. It still looks sort of rough but it runs fine. I'm actually more partial to the square PN2 and PN4/4A nozzles than I am to the later L-shaped ones. The only thing I'm not fond of about the PN4A is the paint, which gets scarred up and makes the nozzle look shabby. I've got two Silverado gray PN4A's, one of which I repainted with Rustoleum Hammertone black paint and primer in one. The paint is actually sort of a gunmetal gray, slightly darker than the origina. It came out looking great and the textured paint hides a world of sins. I thought about painting the other one but ended up getting a polished aluminum PN4 shell for it. It fit on the nozzle perfectly but the PN4A screws were a tad longer and wouldn't secure the shell into place tightly. The simple solution was just to use the ones that came with the PN4 shell. | ||
| Post# 452108 , Reply# 15 4/27/2022 at 21:06 (721 days old) by repairman (Woodridge, IL) | ||
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I sold one of these last year. Good vacuum but I have no interest in canisters unless it's a Rainbow. Paid $5 at Goodwill and it came with a practically perfect woven hose, working power nozzle, wands, and floor/carpet head. | ||
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