Recent content by Lothar

Sbakerde, is there a way I can determine if the brushes are bad?

I have a two-speed burgundy tristar CXL (1982?) and the completely and very suddenly stopped working. I removed the motor hoping that I could just replace it but I am having trouble finding a 3-wire motor. Everything I see on ebay is two wire. If I don't care about having two speeds, can I...