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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
I never did manage to find circlip pliers to fit
Quote from: beko1987 on April 06, 2017, 06:54:33 pmThat'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, tskAs long as it runs, imma keep rebelting my 2004 clutch with Qtex
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!
I lick the clutch plate to hold it in position