Kirby fan misadventures and mishaps

[cb123]

Like from some bad slapstick comedy, this is what happens when you introduce a 516 to a X-Acto knive, and as you can see the results are both dynamic and explosive. Elmer's never intended this for their fine cutting products. I further state, to my chagrin, it almost bit me when I was restoring it, and this is but a few of the dangers and pitfalls we floor machine men must face - on that thin carpet line - we will hold the line. Now, in all viewing, you can see that the poor X-acto knive as strong and sharp as it was didn't even stand a chance - this is the part when you supposed throw back your head and wildly laugh and say it's a Kirby. Please, feel free to share your interesting photos too.

 

[cb123]

Pic#2

Ding - ding - the Kirby 516 fan was declared the winner by a knockout, and the crowd goes wild!

 

[gmerkt]

That's a miniature version of the fabled steel fence post driven through a tree trunk during a cyclone. But the same principles apply. Given enough force, a relatively thin but sharp object may be driven through a dense object. With the fence post, the wind hurls it into the tree trunk and in the case above, the Kirby fan blade hurls itself into the X-acto blade but the forces are similar.

Road hazard destruction to automobile tires is another interesting thing to view the results of. The foreign object is lying there innocently on the ground, when a tire comes along and hurls itself onto said object. Nails, screws and similar hardware are fairly common but lots of other things find their way into a tire tread or sidewall, such as common hand tools. Rather large objects, you'd think, but the force of the tire with high rotational force hitting, say, a ratchet wrench, will pop it right through like nothing. The large object insertions are more commonly seen on rear wheel tires. This is because front wheels have a tendency to flip the foreign object up a bit and sets up the puncture event for the following rear tire.

If you are driving your vehicle through a construction area, a recycling center, anywhere that auto dismantling is taking place, etc., drive slowly. Doing that you are more likely to roll over a potential puncture device rather than stick it into the material of the tire.

 

[vacuumman206]

those suckers are sharp sharp sharp!! The greatest kirby mishap I came upon recently was when having my ds50 serviced for a new fan, the vac guy had to drill through the fan to get the screws out from behind it, and then carefully hold the armature and he got the fan off. Before that, my kirby bent his steel rod that he always used to get kirby fans off, and he said he's never had it bend before, and it's a solid rod.

 

[cb123]

I know what you mean

I've had two fans(515 and a D-80)which were so welded shut with rust that I actual had to drill the armature hole bigger to allow a larger screw driver in. If you can believe I even had to put a pipe wrench to the fan, and sorry to say it proved hard all the way down to the last horrible thread.