Changing clutch belts, how difficult?

[Madrat]

Totally agree but it just seems to be the way of everything now 

[beko1987]

That's a good point re the dc33, that's the last clutched dyson! Motors, filters etc will be cheap for a while yet, but no one makes an aftermarket clutch. Luckily you got the white wheels made, and its not a tricky job at all. Maybe you should put a clutch rebuild kit together? T15 and t10 torx driver, white wheel, circlip, set of belts, a cheap but good set of circlip pliers and some instructions... But would there be a market for it? It's only a 10 minute job, including stripdown, but as shown on here, people would rather sink £25 in to a whole unit than spend 10 minutes fitting a £1 set of belts...

Kids today, tsk

[Madrat]

I never did manage to find circlip pliers to fit

[GeorgeJ]

That's a good point re the dc33, that's the last clutched dyson! Motors, filters etc will be cheap for a while yet, but no one makes an aftermarket clutch. Luckily you got the white wheels made, and its not a tricky job at all. Maybe you should put a clutch rebuild kit together? T15 and t10 torx driver, white wheel, circlip, set of belts, a cheap but good set of circlip pliers and some instructions... But would there be a market for it? It's only a 10 minute job, including stripdown, but as shown on here, people would rather sink £25 in to a whole unit than spend 10 minutes fitting a £1 set of belts...

Kids today, tsk

The first time I changed the belt on my 14, I was a bit hesitant to tear down the clutch and change the belts and, because we needed the vacuum working, I didn't want to waste time so I bought the clutch.  The second time around I was rebuilding a 33 so I had the time to fiddle with it.  Totally worth it.

Mangled the clip, though. 

[MVacs]

I never did manage to find circlip pliers to fit

We got a pair from eBay recently and made them right with the bench grinder.

[Elgin]

That's a good point re the dc33, that's the last clutched dyson! Motors, filters etc will be cheap for a while yet, but no one makes an aftermarket clutch. Luckily you got the white wheels made, and its not a tricky job at all. Maybe you should put a clutch rebuild kit together? T15 and t10 torx driver, white wheel, circlip, set of belts, a cheap but good set of circlip pliers and some instructions... But would there be a market for it? It's only a 10 minute job, including stripdown, but as shown on here, people would rather sink £25 in to a whole unit than spend 10 minutes fitting a £1 set of belts...

Kids today, tsk

As long as it runs, imma keep rebelting my 2004 clutch with Qtex

[GeorgeJ]

That's a good point re the dc33, that's the last clutched dyson! Motors, filters etc will be cheap for a while yet, but no one makes an aftermarket clutch. Luckily you got the white wheels made, and its not a tricky job at all. Maybe you should put a clutch rebuild kit together? T15 and t10 torx driver, white wheel, circlip, set of belts, a cheap but good set of circlip pliers and some instructions... But would there be a market for it? It's only a 10 minute job, including stripdown, but as shown on here, people would rather sink £25 in to a whole unit than spend 10 minutes fitting a £1 set of belts...

Kids today, tsk

As long as it runs, imma keep rebelting my 2004 clutch with Qtex

I get the feeling in ten years, we'll all still be here posting about our clutches: "hey guys, my friction plate wore out.  I epoxied it to the flywheel following beko's slideshow.  Worked great!  "

[beko1987]

You can also flip the friction plate around so the new side faces out! It's like turning your pants inside out for another few days of use. I use small tiny drops of grease to hold the material to the housing, have used qbond before though when my grease was out of reach.

I'll keep hold of my tub of random clutch spares I think, could cash in in 15-20 years... Must buy some white wheels too so I can refurb the small stash of knackered ones ready to swap out, I'm re-belting as I go at the moment!

[Madrat]

I lick the clutch plate to hold it in position

[beko1987]

I wish we had a like button for that post!

[Madrat]

 

[GeorgeJ]

You can also flip the friction plate around so the new side faces out! It's like turning your pants inside out for another few days of use. I use small tiny drops of grease to hold the material to the housing, have used qbond before though when my grease was out of reach.

I'll keep hold of my tub of random clutch spares I think, could cash in in 15-20 years... Must buy some white wheels too so I can refurb the small stash of knackered ones ready to swap out, I'm re-belting as I go at the moment!

Yes, but in another ten years, we'll all have flipped them a few times each!

[GeorgeJ]

I lick the clutch plate to hold it in position

Taste's like mom's cooking!

[Madrat]

  You never tasted my mothers cooking 

[GeorgeJ]

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No...  No, I haven't.