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Vacuum Motor Repair Video - Collapsed impeller housing

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Uploaded by on Sep 17, 2008

If you just purchased a brand new vacuum motor for your carpet cleaning extractor, and it's making a grinding sound, you probably have a collapsed impeller housing. Watch as Ken at Steambrite guides you through a simple fix.

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  • The most common reason this happens is overtightening. This is because it is possible to tighten down the nuts hard enough that the impeller housing gives way, and collapses in on itself. You can tell if this happens if (on a perfectly good, freshly installed motor) its making a "grinding" sound, which would be the impeller blades grinding against the housing.

  • you did not fix it even you couldnt open that cover please make a better video couse it was the worse that i've ever seen before

  • Because we would of then had to intentionally break a perfectly good motor, only to then repair it and throw it away (because we cannot sell used or repaired equipment as "new") solely for the purpose of the demonstration.

  • It may be common sense for someone who's been in the industry for a while, but not everyone has been. Its a common problem we receive questions on, actually, and we do our best to help solve problems as they arrive. Therefore, it's not a worthless video if it actually helps someone.

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  • helped me! thanks

  • ok now i understood your purpose can you help me / i have a waterfiltration vacuum motor and while using it smells so bad and it has a loud voice when i opened and tried to switch on the power i saw that from the vantilator was coming fire and this was the reason of smelling

    what can i do for this what is your proposal for this

  • What causes the housing to collapse? Sudden blockage of the intake?

  • wow, what a worthless video. its pretty much common sense how to do that. this is about as useful as "how to flush a toilet"

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