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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: swiftclean on December 22, 2010, 07:33:32 pm

Title: sos powrflite perfect heat
Post by: swiftclean on December 22, 2010, 07:33:32 pm
just fitted new vac myself :-\

both vacs making right kinda noise's but got no suction :(

any idea's  ???



Title: Re: sos powrflite perfect heat
Post by: Fintan_Coll on December 22, 2010, 07:37:23 pm
Are they those Italian vacs by any chance, I don't like them. Lamb Ametec are the only ones worth fitting.
Title: Re: sos powrflite perfect heat
Post by: Len Gribble on December 22, 2010, 08:06:50 pm
Did you take note which connector went to what terminal don’t think it would be terminal if you haven’t
Title: Re: sos powrflite perfect heat
Post by: Joe H on December 22, 2010, 08:38:26 pm
Have you checked each vac independently?
I think they are in series, meaning one pulls thro the other.
If one vac not working the other one may cause it to spin, but not sufficient to suck.
(but thinking about it, some suction would be there......I think)
Worth checking.
Title: Re: sos powrflite perfect heat
Post by: swiftclean on December 22, 2010, 08:54:27 pm
machine been out of use since i dismantled it about 6 months ago :o

so i kind of forgot how it all went

just swopped the connectors around and getting some suction but not great!!!

one of the intakes on one of the vacs does not have a pipe connected at all ::)

fitted lamb 3 series vac

gonna post pic asap

thanks for the help :)
Title: Re: sos powrflite perfect heat
Post by: Joe H on December 22, 2010, 09:02:53 pm
one vac motor will connect to the other - thats the hoses not the electrics.
Title: Re: sos powrflite perfect heat
Post by: swiftclean on December 22, 2010, 10:10:12 pm
one vac motor will connect to the other - thats the hoses not the electrics.

thanks for reply joe

pump sounds bit noisy too, don't suppose you can reccomend someone near bristol area who could service / repair for me? :)
Title: Re: sos powrflite perfect heat
Post by: Jamie Pearson on December 23, 2010, 12:14:55 am
Are they those Italian vacs by any chance, I don't like them. Lamb Ametec are the only ones worth fitting.

Which Lamb motor fits?

Do the mounts line up without bracket etc.
Title: Re: sos powrflite perfect heat
Post by: Mark_Jubb on December 23, 2010, 12:31:45 am
one vac motor will connect to the other - thats the hoses not the electrics.

thanks for reply joe

pump sounds bit noisy too, don't suppose you can reccomend someone near bristol area who could service / repair for me? :)
A mate of mine takes his machine to a place in Bristol, can't remember their name off hand, but I'll call him in the morning and ask.
Title: Re: sos powrflite perfect heat
Post by: AJB on December 23, 2010, 08:19:02 am
My Powrflite has 2 mounting points for the Imperial
vac motors, so with lamb motors an adaptor needs
to be made up, the holes will not align without it.

You should have 3 large flexible pipes, 1 from where the
connecting pipe from the stack comes through to vac 1,
the second from No 1 exhaust, to the manifold below
vac No 2, the third from No 2 exhaust into the casing
of the machine.

I suspect either the motors are not squarely fittd on their
respective manifolds, or maybe the connecting pipe from the
stack through the pump/heating section is kinked or come off.

You cannot wire a vac motor wrong as it will spin correctly whatever
the polarity of the supply.
Title: Re: sos powrflite perfect heat
Post by: pncleaning on December 23, 2010, 01:05:05 pm
Hi

I use Avon services for all my repairs their number is 0117 9417020

Cheers

Paul

www.pncarpetcleaning.co.uk
Title: Re: sos powrflite perfect heat
Post by: MAX Carpets on December 23, 2010, 05:22:59 pm
Mark

What the hell have you done to that machine???????  Two vacs and a noisy pump!!! 
Title: Re: sos powrflite perfect heat
Post by: markpowell on December 23, 2010, 05:46:57 pm
Is the waste gate closed?
Mark
Title: Re: sos powrflite perfect heat
Post by: chores hygiene management ltd on December 23, 2010, 10:10:07 pm
hands up anyone who has been in a strop about their machine not sucking then 5 mins of mardy later you realise its the gate ? or would that be everybody at some point ??
Title: Re: sos powrflite perfect heat
Post by: AJB on December 24, 2010, 12:50:40 pm
It doesn't have a waste gate, it's a stoppered pipe.