[james roffey]

I am curious about the damage that may be caused to vacuum motors by water entering them, although i can understand that introducing water to an electrical part is very bad, if the vauum motor does survive this, what other damage can it cause, does it remove the lubrication of the fan or other parts it comes into contact with causing it to later fail,not being in the slightest bit technical as you have probably worked out already : i would have thought that moisture must enter the vacs to some degree anyway.
Would spraying something like WD40 into the vacuum be beneficial or am i being a complete
idiot

[Colin Day]

I asked about introducing WD40 as an inhibitor a while back, but I was told it would lead to detrimental consequences

As long as you run your motors dry after every job and allow the motors to breath by leaving the waste tank lid open, your motors should last....

[cleanability]

Best advice I ever had..........and its saved me thousands over the years. Renew vac brushes perodically BEFORE they run out of brush. Before this I was going through motors every year.....now they last 4-5 years.

Chris

[james roffey]

Sounds very good advice,I will have to learn to do this myself, as well as replacing the vacuum motors it does look fairly straightforward and access to them is a doddle on the Airflex

[Carpet Dawg]

Will these fit any vacuum motor then??

http://www.worldofclean.co.uk/index.php?productID=652

Also, how often do you think you should replace the brushs on the vacs? every 200 hours or less?
Are they easy to take out and replace?

cheers
tony

[caryrobert]

Hi,

It affects internal part of vacuum motors as you said fan lubrication or your motor may not functioning properly kept your motor under sunlight for some time if this works that's good if not than repaired it with your electricians.


thanks!

water damage