redneckchinadian
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So I finally lugged my parents old e2000 home in hopes to bring some life back to it for fun and boy oh boy what the hell did I do to this poor vacuum growing up. It was so gorgeous and modern looking in 82' and my dumb teenaged self ended up beating it around pretty badly and now the case is all scuffed and will never be quite new looking again.
Today I managed to open it up and clean up the motor assembly. The bearings were starting to sound dry and when the motor would spin down that just as it stopped you can hear the bearings screeching a tiny bit. Blew all the dust out and found a few blobs of lint jammed in it. Lubed up the bearings with some furnace motor oil and really cleaned out the windings b/c it would shut down the motor after just 5 minutes of running. Purrs nicely now and the bearing screech is all but gone. Sounds like new.
The issue I have is the tension spring coil has become detached from the cord reeler. I figured out out to wrap the clockspring around the cord reeler spool and insert it into the little cutout slow BUT the problem is that the hole at the end of the clock spring has nothing to "hook onto" on the cord reel. I'm not sure if its broken off on the cord reel or if there is a certain way to hook it onto a stud after I insert it into the notch.
Not sure if I am describing myself right but the reeler was working great until I let the cord reel pull the cord in rapidly. I felt the clock spring pop out of the notch on the reel so clearly there needs to be something to hold the tension spring.
Thanks
Today I managed to open it up and clean up the motor assembly. The bearings were starting to sound dry and when the motor would spin down that just as it stopped you can hear the bearings screeching a tiny bit. Blew all the dust out and found a few blobs of lint jammed in it. Lubed up the bearings with some furnace motor oil and really cleaned out the windings b/c it would shut down the motor after just 5 minutes of running. Purrs nicely now and the bearing screech is all but gone. Sounds like new.
The issue I have is the tension spring coil has become detached from the cord reeler. I figured out out to wrap the clockspring around the cord reeler spool and insert it into the little cutout slow BUT the problem is that the hole at the end of the clock spring has nothing to "hook onto" on the cord reel. I'm not sure if its broken off on the cord reel or if there is a certain way to hook it onto a stud after I insert it into the notch.
Not sure if I am describing myself right but the reeler was working great until I let the cord reel pull the cord in rapidly. I felt the clock spring pop out of the notch on the reel so clearly there needs to be something to hold the tension spring.
Thanks
