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Re: We Have a Kleeneze Rotork Cyclon Restoration Project.
« Reply #45 on: August 18, 2015, 09:30:09 pm »
I agree a floppier belt would be better.  fingers crossed.


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Re: We Have a Kleeneze Rotork Cyclon Restoration Project.
« Reply #46 on: August 18, 2015, 11:47:17 pm »
I agree a floppier belt would be better.  fingers crossed.

Yes, then there will be no pivot strain.

And its not like it has to work very hard. As long as it works, and picks some crap up off the floor, that will do for me.

How to trim the bristles is harder, snips, scissors and a bench grinder are all ineffective. I need to take about 3mm off each one. Ideas welcome......

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Re: We Have a Kleeneze Rotork Cyclon Restoration Project.
« Reply #47 on: August 19, 2015, 12:10:25 am »
Hmm, apart from scissors and wire snips I cant think of anything else to use, have you tried nail or toe nail scissors and flattening out each tuft, or perhaps flattening each tuft out on a desk and using a small craft knife/scalpel.

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Re: We Have a Kleeneze Rotork Cyclon Restoration Project.
« Reply #48 on: August 19, 2015, 08:49:01 am »
Extra sharp razor blades affixed to a turbo tool?

It'll be a pain, clamp a tuft in a pair of needlenose pliers and trin/cut? Would only take you eleventy billion hours to do it all...

Fix a long blade to the front inside of the base plate and fire her up? WCPGW? It would clean up the mess as it makes it then too...
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Re: We Have a Kleeneze Rotork Cyclon Restoration Project.
« Reply #49 on: August 19, 2015, 01:46:44 pm »
After some measuring and drilling, we almost have a brushroll.......

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So now it is clamped up and will stay like that for a couple of days to make sure the glue sets.

It may look a little Heath Robinson, but the body of the brushroll is straight when tested with a metal rule all around, and the wheel is central. The bit of brushroll below wedged in, and the carefully placed screwdriver are keeping it straight while it goes off. 

We'll see.......

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Re: We Have a Kleeneze Rotork Cyclon Restoration Project.
« Reply #50 on: August 19, 2015, 02:51:13 pm »
When you say snips, take it you mean side cutters. Have you tried tuff cut's ? They're like a pair of angled surgical scissors & will cut most things.
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« Reply #51 on: August 19, 2015, 06:19:57 pm »
We got loads of pairs of surgical scissors after I was in hospital with my chin,  theyd open a new pack 4 times a day to change my dressing... Then leave them on the side.  Bought loads home,  their stupidly sharp!

Just get cellulitis in your chin,  simple...
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Re: We Have a Kleeneze Rotork Cyclon Restoration Project.
« Reply #52 on: August 19, 2015, 06:44:38 pm »
Euch, that doesn't sound like such an inviting prospect. Think I'll buy them on ebay.
Are you talking about normal scissors though ? or the curved toughcuts the Paramedics use.
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Re: We Have a Kleeneze Rotork Cyclon Restoration Project.
« Reply #53 on: August 19, 2015, 07:55:40 pm »
Have you tried tuff cut's ? They're like a pair of angled surgical scissors & will cut most things.

These things?

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« Reply #54 on: August 19, 2015, 08:17:11 pm »
These things?

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Re: We Have a Kleeneze Rotork Cyclon Restoration Project.
« Reply #55 on: August 19, 2015, 08:33:12 pm »
Mvacs: Try a hair clipper ;D
Beko: chin?! whaa...
PS you mean you want to make the bristles evenly lengthened?

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Re: We Have a Kleeneze Rotork Cyclon Restoration Project.
« Reply #56 on: August 19, 2015, 09:23:20 pm »
Hair trimmer could work  :thumbsup:

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Re: We Have a Kleeneze Rotork Cyclon Restoration Project.
« Reply #57 on: September 22, 2015, 05:41:13 pm »
We had an idle moment today, so the Rotork has started to go back together.







It is not finished yet as we now have to modify some small broken bits to work and get the brushroll in there.

But we fired it up and we have suction!  :thumbsup:

There is a small hose missing from the side that we never noticed though. So we are making one from two DC04 non-clutched cuffs and a small bit of hose as original stuff is unavailable. Small bits of originality are going to have to be sacrificed here due to the unavailability of Kleeneze Rotork Cyclon parts.

More to follow when we get around to finishing it.

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Re: We Have a Kleeneze Rotork Cyclon Restoration Project.
« Reply #58 on: September 22, 2015, 05:49:30 pm »
If its not going to be used, could you get a paint match and spray the hose?

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Re: We Have a Kleeneze Rotork Cyclon Restoration Project.
« Reply #59 on: September 22, 2015, 05:51:45 pm »
If its not going to be used, could you get a paint match and spray the hose?

Good idea! I need to paint the cable clip anyway.  :icon_nod:

This is what is missing. The bottom one is fitted in this position in the photo above. Around the time we started asking each other where the other hose was.  :D


 

 

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