What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[TimothyClaypole]

I claim my £5.00 as Beko is Thame's "Vac Doctor". 

 

 

 

(My uncle is one in Huddersfield).

[vulgalour]

 

IT HAS A JAG V12 IN IT

 

DO NOT PAINT

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Hey Beko, my mate bought 6 nilfisk Multi 30 wet & dry vacs off eBay for a quid!!! They all seem to have worn out motors. Where would you look to price up a replacement motor??

[beko1987]

Qualtex have some, but I'd need a picturepicture of one of the motors to be sure!

 

 

Define shagged? Could be worn carbons, or dead bearings. If its an amtek motor then they shit bearings for fun, the small bearing is replaceable with one that fits a dyson clutch, large bearing is a standard size too.

 

 

http://manchestervacs.co.uk/DysonForum/index.php/topic,1479.0.html

 

For a quid each, I'd try and shoehorn a cheap numatic motor in them and furnish my mates with decent car/garage Vacs!

[STUNO]

Spring has finally sprung in my part of the world, after weeks of seriously bad weather today was warm and windless, so went for a walk at Lake Maraetai (ma right eye) , behold.

 

The populace was enjoying life.

 

 

The Bus Stop Café at the lakefront.

A Bedford with upstairs office.

 

A bonus bit of Astra and Hyundai action at the café.

 

 

A completely empty golf course

 

And to finish, this boat was some way offshore and I could not work out what the T-section thing was above the boat. Sorted by some lens adjustment !

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[fordperv]

I havnt really got on with dysons as I think they feel cheap, my weapon of choice is a 1995 iirc kirby g4 which I have grown up with, my parents gave it to me 7 years ago and i couldn't live without it, the only thing that has gone wrong other than maintaining with belts is the motor died a couple of months ago and i replaced the fan

[Cavcraft]

You're a very lucky man, Stuno, that looks absolutely stunning, just look at that beautiful shimmering blue haze. ATSNBE*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*And the scenery's not bad either

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Yo Beko, this is the motor in question:

 

 

The carbon brushes are ok, but they spark loads on the commutator turning it black in minutes. Plus the motors all get mega hot very quickly and smell burned out!

[RobT]

Stuno, I IS JEALOUS! NZ is a bloody awesome place, wish I could ship all my shite over and live there. I spent a couple of months touring the North Island 10 years ago and managed to find this place in Hawkes Bay. A private collection chock full of British tin

 

http://www.britishcarmuseum.co.nz/

[beko1987]

Ah sparky commutar is usually fatal. Motor looks a bit specialist and expensive too, why I never normally touch Vacs like that as parts can be expensive, ruining any profit.

 

I've asked the question anyway, some Nilfisk but will know!

[320touring]

 I shall play this at new year!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8PzPHKGpNXs

be warned- tis MENTHOL

[Caffiend]

Gorgeous pics Stuno - lovely interlude from vacuum stuffs

 

Which I'm about to add to: <947 my Henry, even if he is a modern complicated one. Unfortunately he is a bit smelly. I'll clean the hose and see if that helps and change the bag (got a couple of those reusable ones off ebay, they're fab). Top filter is fine. Before I take him apart is there anywhere else specific I should be looking for smelly bits/filters to clean/change? Ta.

[beko1987]

If you take the black cage out of the filter, and the rubber seal off the edge, it goes in the washing machine. Pur the hose in too, no need to take the ends off.

 

That, and a new bag should fix it. If its fairly new then there's a coarse filter around the motor that's supposed to catch the carbon dust, that can go through the machine too buy may dye the filter black.

 

I use the hepaflo bags, they do work well. I vaccumed the garden with my crap henry and it only smells slightly of soil in use...

[STUNO]

You're a very lucky man, Stuno, that looks absolutely stunning, just look at that beautiful shimmering blue haze. ATSNBE

 

 

*And the scenery's not bad either

 

Just to make it worse for you the traffic was bad too !

I got passed by a car on the way too the lake (30 km).and only saw I other going in my direction. Coming back did not see another car going my way. That's Saturday afternoon traffic, and this town is totally free of traffic lights too !

[Micrashed]

Back to Vacuum cleaners again.

I have several Dysons and love them, but despite the hype they do require cleaning and maintaining to keep in full working order. Ive only ever killed one and that was hoovering up concrete dust  after the floor was laid in the extension. Took quite a bit of resuscitation did that one.

 

Im an upright fan rather than a cylinder, though I do have a female Henry, but she lives up at the caravan as she takes up less room. Ive just picked up a Bissell rug cleaner. Spotless and used only once.

[jakebullet]

Ebay in bargain shock! Got an industrial grade thermal printer that was in the region of £1200 new for 99p. True I have to fetch from Sheffield, but still a rare win.

 

I've also stopped cutting rotten bits out of my series landy and started welding shiny new steel in.

[STUNO]

Some police accident statistics in the paper today. Remember small police force & small population mean small numbers !

 

Total no. of police / civilian car accidents  464

Police v parked car                                   191

Police car going backwards                      118

Police car up the rear of car in front           89

Police car doing u turn                               39

and a few others                                        27

 

These people judge us on our driving !

[fordperv]

They are only human though and that's where error occurs

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I have no idea what this is all about but I absolutely love it!!

[Caffiend]

^ That. And thanks Beko, as it is a new-ish Henry (a mere 3 years old from memory) it will have the filter round the motor, will only do that if the smell doesn't go away after doing the rest.

 

@ Ballsy-man: suspect provenance is from this amazing guy who also has a Faecebook page (Jim'll paint it) if you are on there.

[r.welfare]

My brother has that Jim'll Paint It picture on a T shirt, he wore it to the Ashes last year and the Aussies were somewhat confused by it.

[cms206]

 

Jim'll Paint It is brilliant. The blurb for this particular image was...

 

"Dear Jim,

 

Please paint me a picture of Brian Blessed riding a Henry hoover alongside D'n'B DJ Goldie on a Dyson. They are racing on the Mario kart level rainbow road and are both drunk on white ace cider."

 

 

I've only got one Jim'll Paint It t-shirt, which is Brian Blessed punching a polar bear. Those of you with a facebook account can look him up, there are some genuinely LOLtastic images on there.

[Craig the Princess]

That Jim'll paint is facebook page is fantastic.

[TimothyClaypole]

Doing some ill advised work on my Astra, two track rod arms and a wheel bearing.  Very considerate of Vauxhall to put some E-Torx  bolts on the back of the hub carrier, about the only sockets I don't have...

 

So my dad and me tramped off to Halfords to get molested for the set they sell.  Got some youth to open the cupboard, none there and none in the back.

 

They had some socket sets open on a shelf and one of them (newer than mine) has some Torx sockets in it. E20 I think it is was the one we needed.  So I took the socket to the till and tried to get the guy to find a price, he tried but obviously they don't sell them individually so no go. I offered to buy this one seeing as 50% of the box was already empty ie. stolen.

 

He said he'd have to ask the manager who was running in and out fitting something to someone's car so a bit stressed.

 

He looked at it as he was passing and said they don't sell them individually then sort of threw it on the counter and said take it.

 

 

 

(Car is still in bits as I got the wrong bearing but at least the bolts are off) 

[Craig the Princess]

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2014/10/10/nobel-prize-airport-security/

 

 

What It’s Like to Carry Your Nobel Prize through Airport Security

By Clara Moskowitz

 

“When I won this, my grandma, who lives in Fargo, North Dakota, wanted to see it. I was coming around so I decided I’d bring my Nobel Prize. You would think that carrying around a Nobel Prize would be uneventful, and it was uneventful, until I tried to leave Fargo with it, and went through the X-ray machine. I could see they were puzzled. It was in my laptop bag. It’s made of gold, so it absorbs all the X-raysâ€â€it’s completely black. And they had never seen anything completely black.

“They’re like, ‘Sir, there’s something in your bag.’
I said, ‘Yes, I think it’s this box.’
They said, ‘What’s in the box?’
I said, ‘a large gold medal,’ as one does.
So they opened it up and they said, ‘What’s it made out of?’
I said, ‘gold.’
And they’re like, ‘Uhhhh. Who gave this to you?’
‘The King of Sweden.’
‘Why did he give this to you?’
‘Because I helped discover the expansion rate of the universe was accelerating.’
At which point, they were beginning to lose their sense of humor. I explained to them it was a Nobel Prize, and their main question was, ‘Why were you in Fargo?’â€Â

[beko1987]

 

Sorted! Old one back in, and a bit of the new one spliced on. Have adjusted it so the choc block hits the stop at the right time. Also dialled out the few mm of play in the throttle linkage before anything happens.

 

Will find out if it actually works tomorrow

[beko1987]

^ That. And thanks Beko, as it is a new-ish Henry (a mere 3 years old from memory) it will have the filter round the motor, will only do that if the smell doesn't go away after doing the rest.

 

 

Red on/off switch and the thinner returning rocker hi/lo switch with LED at the top rear of the housing? then yes!

 

It does take the stale smell away. TBH by the time youve got that far you may as well take the motor fully out, and the wires and chuck the plastic lot through the diswasher!

 

On re-assembly, do it upside down, so the motor housing upside down on the floor, motor in that upside down, then wrap the filter around the inside of the cage and slide that over the fancase, then put the rubber seal on that, then lower the bottom housing that you see when back together ontop and do up the screws.

[Minimad5]

Have to say i'm presently surprised by how much abuse Henry hoovers take.

We use them in a non domestic application (hoovering up bulk powder in work) And the powder gets past the filter and into the motor.

 

I've has the pleasure of stripping them down, soaking them in contact cleaner, and rebuilding the blighters.

Normally the only thing to die is the PCB, but we've bypassed many, just to get by.

Which reminds me, i need to send Beko a picture of Ye Old Hoover

[beko1987]

Ooh a picture!!

 

Yes, if you wire thel and n wire from the cord rewind to one side of the on off switch, and the white motor wires to the other it bypasses all that and just works!

 

Try a hepaflo bag, they filter shit loads better than paper ones, and don't clog. Cheap copies are fine, pm me your address and I'll chuck one in the post if you like?

[daveb47]

Cured damp headlining when raining on Ovlov by clearing sunroof drains with long flexible curtain rod.

Well pleased