Recent content by castrojoel

It's all thanks to you guys on this forum, you guys helped me out a lot. It's nice to know that there is people out there that still can reach out and give a hand, even in the form of writing, I'm very happy now that it works, thanks everyone!!!! And thanks kirbyboy for offering your parts,

192.35+tax Here is a pic of sales slip

It's been running good with the original field windings, I'm sure the armature was the only problem with the motor, or at least I hope, I'm not sure on the bag, I would like it but the one it has now a kirby repair center put on it back in 1990, it is like part of its history, and the bag is in...

New replacement metal fan, replacement switch, and of coarse replacement armature, Got all of this for $40.00+ tax

Found replacement locally I found an armature here in town from a local repair shop, I could only go today because the shop closes the same time I leave work, good thing he had a replacement, saved me a ton of money

I can get them both for around $150 new, that is quite a bit of money, but they are new. That digs me more money in the hole for a vacuum I'm pretty much not going to use.

I was thinking of getting whole new motor from kirby...

I'm more than sure that the armature is bad, I was told that it is recommended to replace armature and fields in pairs, so just replacing the armature isn't a good idea, after all the pair is older than 50+ years, if the amature is new and the fields remain the same, the armature will fail if...

I've read that the only true way to check for faults is to run 110v down the armature because it needs extra power that a multimeter can't do, here is my armature

My armature from my 514 does the same thing, the best way to check is with a growler, but I don't have one

Hey kirbykid, my email is [email protected], lets get in contact because I'm going to throw in the towel on this motor, it's been nothing but trouble and a pain on my rear end

According to vacsite, the armature from a D80 & D50 will fit the 514, is it possible that a two speed motor armature will fit a single speed motor? What do you guys think?? http://www.vacsite.com/en/kirby-1/013VS-114967.html

Override update Ok... I overrode the safety and overwired it strait to the motor... It spun faster than it has for 30 seconds then it went back to super slow and again with burning smell... So I hurried up and took out the brushes that were really hot, then I took out the armature, it was...

I'm going to override the safety switch and eniminate the switch and go directly to the motor to see if that will help... Process of elimination

Ok... But that won't tell me if the power is bottlenecked... It would just test continuity, I can test that with the meter as well.... My question to you guys out there that have rebuilt many more vacs is what would cause the motor to spin at an 1/8 the speed that it would normally?? It also...