How to Service Bearings (Video Guide...)

[tristar]

I get asked ALL THE TIME how to service bearings and am constantly chiming in on threads both in the Vintage and Contemporary forums on proper sleeve bearing service.

Well today's your lucky day! I've remade my original videos on how to service sleeve bearings, and also added a separate video about servicing ball bearings. I'm posting this both in the vintage and the contemporary forums so that people can find these things! It would be nice to have a sticky-thread so they're like a slap in the face when you visit the forums.....it seems to be a highly discussed topic!

Hopefully you all find the videos informative, educational, and mildly entertaining!

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[aeoliandave]

Excellent Workshop and Communication skills.

Brilliantly done, Tristar Eric. Concise and de-mystified step by step informative videos. Exactly the thing that should be readily accessible under it's own VACUUM MAINTENANCE button on the Main Vacuumland Page.

How about that, Fred Nelson? A How-To Maintenance Section for submitted written guides (such as liquid latex Relining of Cloth and Saran Weave Hoses and Overhauling, Tuning & Adjusting your LX for Superior Bag Ejection) as well as videos, subject to your scrutiny beforehand, of course. Create the tab button for us and begin the knowledge base with Eric's fine videos?

We have just such an invaluable resource section over on the Mechanical Music Digest site, fully indexed and search-able since it is a wholly text based message forum.

Meantime, this one is bookmarked until it falls off the page when it will be bookmarked again in Archives.

Dave

 

[kirbyotronic]

Thanks for posting those excellent videos! Can't wait to service the top bearing on my Hoover 61, and a bunch of Kirby bearings.

Dave, I think that is a fantastic idea to ad a "How-to Maintenance" button on the home page. I know it would help a lot of people including myself. Count my vote, please!

~Alex

 

[vacfanatic]

Agreed

I vote for the maintenance section as well. I could whip up a document on my methods of metal buffing...

 

[kirbfan94]

same here

i think that a maintenance section would be a gret idea.

 

[tristar]

How-To...

I agree with the necessity of a "Maintenance Section". I have more of these I'm going to do....including how to determine if you have a bad winding or a shorted commutator. All important stuff for those of us with ancient machines with parts that are NLA!!

I'm keeping the originals of my videos this time. With my old account, i didn't keep the original files....so they're gone forever. Oh well......gives me a reason to remake them!

It surprises me how many people underestimate how simple it is to work on a motor or service a bearing. A lot of people run away screaming like it's brain surgery! It's really not that bad if you've got even a tiny bit of mechanical ability.

 

[airway88]

That is so true what you say in your last 2 lines!

I sold off the 800 because I had NO idea what to do with the motor. And I guess it could have been sort of simple. but I had no idea back then.

These kinds of things save people from dumping old vacuums.


I guess that old 575 will get some attention after all.

 

[airway88]

someday this will be good as new... i hope!