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Neat idea.

I mean, it looks like it's being marketed to hotels. The model posing with it is even dressed like a maid. Actually it seems like it's well suited to hotel use. "Cuts cleaning time in half" - come on, they're selling its time efficiency to hotels.

You have the motor out. With the brushes removed, spin the armature with your hand. There should be no resistance or roughness. If it does anything but spin freely, suspect bearings.

That's its name lol Success Hand Vacuum Cleaner Hutchison Mfg. Co. Wilkinsburg, PA This was the other half of the auction lot with that AirWay. $10 for the lot. It was full of dirt and the filter was caked solid. It's also torn, I'll need to make a new one, not a big deal. Interestingly the...

Remove the brush holders and ensure the brushes slide easily in their holders. Clean them with alcohol. Make sure they are not too worn down, and that they do not have any weird grooves or damage to their sides (the surfaces that ride on the brush holders). The commutator will need to be...

tHaT's rAcIsT!

Unfortunately, plastics degrade over time as the plasticizer either degrades or evaporates. Not a whole lot you can do about that. I mean, I suppose in theory there would be a way to put plasticizer back into something. Not sure.

Ford wasn't happy about a lot of things. Like paying many millions of dollars in owed dividends to the red-headed Dodge brothers who were almost solely responsible for his wealth and success. But he ending up paying them anyway lol they won the court case.

It's a shop vac. Shop vacs are always abused. Run without filters or bags, used to clean construction debris which will puncture filters or bags. Used as a wet vac, then while still wet, used as a dry vac. Pretty sure that's what happened to my Fein vac. The plaster dust caked on the fans wasn't...

Very strange. Always fascinating the ideas that come from whichever technology's 'wild west' era of development. That, and the crazy crap that comes from avoiding patent infringement lol.

Most ball bearings are standard and are easily available from anywhere. Amazon, ebay, random cheapie bearing websites. The trick is finding the dimensions or trade number of the bearing. The trade number will be written somewhere on the bearing (side of inner or outer race, or dust shield), but...

That's what I was trying to tell you. I guess I didn't explain the technical side of it. It's probably all either capacitive leakage or induction, either way, as you put it, current is what matters. And there being no real connection to power, and only minimal capacitance and inductance, the...

You know... so many of those sweepers look the same. I really really think most of them were made by a few companies and rebadged for electric vacuum manufacturers. And if you think about it for a second, it makes sense. A manufacturer set up for casting and polishing aluminum, and building...

The reason it takes so long is because you're waiting for the refrigerant to slowly boil out of the oil. Can take a while sometimes.

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Adding to Les' comment - *does* this unit have a radio noise suppression capacitor? (That's what you meant, Les.) If so, snip that old cap out. IIRC, some vac motors had the cap as almost part of the motor, as opposed to being a separate piece. Like permanently mounted to the motor frame. Worth...

A megohmmeter would really be the thing for this. You could just test the motor and all the different bits for leakage. Here's an idea. Bring the machine into your bathroom. Plug it into the GFCI outlet (that you should have to prevent bathroom users from making toast while taking a bath). See...

Take it apart and post pics of the wiring you messed with. I really don't want to be that guy, but it's a single load and a switch. Unless the motor's brush wires are coming into play, it's literally the simplest thing to wire. The black wire from the cord is Line, and it goes to the switch...

Nice. All that nonsense about propane is a load of bull. Consider there's only like one or two pounds of propane in the system. Even in the absolute WORST case scenario (that is, assuming a line bursts and something inside the unit is already on fire) there will be a bang and all the propane...

Reminds me of those RCA cables on amazon that were like $5000. Of course, that's an algorithm screwup. Dunno about ebay, the seller probably put in the wrong info for the shipping, that's all.