While I was angry and a little PO's a while back by the plastic bearing surface and bushing on my rotary brush, vacuum cleaner, melting and being in my opinion unfixable... To my pleasant surprise, I was able to find replacement parts on the WWW... While not cheap (I had to replace several large associated parts), for less than $75 in parts and a couple hours figuring out how to reassemble it without instructions, I was able to get my trusty old Hoover, sucking like a trooper (make your own dirty joke) again... well it was already sucking, but now the rotary brush is beating loose the dirt in the carpet again so it can get sucked up into the right hole.
I probably could have bought a cheapo new vacuum, with 140G of centrifugal force, for little more than these parts cost me to fix the old one. but I feel bad about discarding old stuff that can still be made to work (like me).
I somehow doubt the new vacuum I might have replaced this with would be as repairable.
JR
PS, When I tore down the vacuum to replace parts, I found about a 2" roofing nail that had been driven through the motor impeller cowling from the inside out, I don't recall vacuuming up a huge nail, but it apparently shrugged it off and kept on trucking.
I probably could have bought a cheapo new vacuum, with 140G of centrifugal force, for little more than these parts cost me to fix the old one. but I feel bad about discarding old stuff that can still be made to work (like me).
I somehow doubt the new vacuum I might have replaced this with would be as repairable.
JR
PS, When I tore down the vacuum to replace parts, I found about a 2" roofing nail that had been driven through the motor impeller cowling from the inside out, I don't recall vacuuming up a huge nail, but it apparently shrugged it off and kept on trucking.
