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I have had to replace the brushes in my Eureka Roto-Matic 805 about 3 times now. This wouldn't be such a big deal, if it weren't for the task of extracting this brass (I guess that is what it is made out of) sleeve in this plastic holder which contains the brush. My Vacuum cleaner recently...

Yea, but is there any way to make those measurements with some homemade apparatus that you could just throw together with off the shelf parts? That's the kind of thing I'd like to know about. Then I could get a reading on my vacuum and show my parents how much stronger my 50 year old vacuum is...

Hey Chris. I can hardly believe it but I did it! I managed to get that brass sleeve out of the plastic holder. And I was totally mistaken thinking the plastic holder was in 2 parts. Now, how does one get hold of a new carbon brush to put in place of the used up one? I thought I knew where to...

hoover28, thanks for bringing this up. Because that is another avenue I am pursuing. If I look carefully at my brush holder, I can see that the plastic holder seems to be made up of 2 separate pieces (I can see scratches on one that stop right where they meet), a front half and a rear half...

Thank you for responding, electroluxxxx. Yes, I know it is a Lamb motor because written on the fan housing is "LAMB ELECTRIC CO." But there are many types of brushes for Ametek Lamb Motors, right? Now, you include a link to a page for brush number # 33326-1. So what leads you to believe this...

To Vacuum Cleaner aficionados, I just stumbled upon your web site www.vacuumland.org and I was wondering if you could help me with something. I have this old vacuum cleaner by the name of Eureka Roto-Matic (model 805). My parents bought this when I was a little kid (in fact, maybe before I...