DesertTortoise
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Lovin' on the Avocado Bomber tonight. Hinge repair plans A and B both failed so we have a temp plan C in place for now. Don't ask, it's embarrassing.
The motor is rebuilt. To pass it through the opening in the bottom housing you have to remove one of the brushes. When I did so the carbon brush shot out of it's holder along with the spring. There is a copper braided wire that trailed out behind the carbon brush. I don't know if that wire is supposed to attach to anything or not. I put the spring and brush back into the holder making sure the wire was inside the spring, but how it makes contact other than through the spring is beyond me. I hope it isn't broken now.
Once the motor was screwed in the next mystery will be wiring. The motor has five wires, red, blue, black, white and yellow. In person, both the white and yellow wires look the same. I rubbed on them with some acetone hoping to draw some color out of them, but in person it is very hard to tell which is which. Imagine my surprise when looking at the images the white and yellow wires stand out clearly. Weird.
Tomorrow I have to solder wires to the On/On DPDT switch, including a jumper that connects two end terminals diagonally across the switch. High and low speed switching is accomplished by switching between parallel and series operation through this switch. Lamb has a diagram showing how to wire the switch and there is a barely readable wiring diagram sticker in the motor compartment, a small piece of which I found elsewhere in the vacuum and taped back into place. I hope I get this thing wired right!
Stay tuned kids. Include are images of hinge Plan A (failed, wouldn't take the necessary shape to clear that big white lid gasket) and another image of restoration staff taking a break. Come to think of it, all they ever do is take a break, unless they are redecorating something.
The motor is rebuilt. To pass it through the opening in the bottom housing you have to remove one of the brushes. When I did so the carbon brush shot out of it's holder along with the spring. There is a copper braided wire that trailed out behind the carbon brush. I don't know if that wire is supposed to attach to anything or not. I put the spring and brush back into the holder making sure the wire was inside the spring, but how it makes contact other than through the spring is beyond me. I hope it isn't broken now.
Once the motor was screwed in the next mystery will be wiring. The motor has five wires, red, blue, black, white and yellow. In person, both the white and yellow wires look the same. I rubbed on them with some acetone hoping to draw some color out of them, but in person it is very hard to tell which is which. Imagine my surprise when looking at the images the white and yellow wires stand out clearly. Weird.
Tomorrow I have to solder wires to the On/On DPDT switch, including a jumper that connects two end terminals diagonally across the switch. High and low speed switching is accomplished by switching between parallel and series operation through this switch. Lamb has a diagram showing how to wire the switch and there is a barely readable wiring diagram sticker in the motor compartment, a small piece of which I found elsewhere in the vacuum and taped back into place. I hope I get this thing wired right!
Stay tuned kids. Include are images of hinge Plan A (failed, wouldn't take the necessary shape to clear that big white lid gasket) and another image of restoration staff taking a break. Come to think of it, all they ever do is take a break, unless they are redecorating something.
