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Miele S7260 Cat & Dog - Repair and Refurbishment!

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beko1987:
A fair while ago now, I became the proud* owner of a Miele S7!



And yes, it was leant up against the bin for a reason...

It didn't sound too bad...

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rH7PSnfohQ
I had a quick look to see if the motor could be coaxed back into life

Undo these screws here



Which splits the 2 halves (yes I was working in the rain)



Undo some more screws to uncover almost the motor



Trim piece off



Post motor filter out



Baseplate off



Which releases the motor housing itself



Stupid cover bit fell off

beko1987:
Now we can see the motor



And extract it



Brought it inside for a look



And had it apart



Yea that's  :dead-dyson:

But, I had another motor from a scrapped S5 in the shed that ran fine, and they look the same, don't they! So in that came



And I extracted its guts



Which looked a bit better than the other one



As did the carbon brushes



So, for good measure, I gave the bearings a little grease

beko1987:
And went to fit the carbons.... THEN found out the motor was a different flipping size! Yes, the armature is identical, but the casing as a whole is bigger on the cylinder models... so the carbon brushes would not fit... Sod it, in went the old brushes



And back together it went



All the internal wiring fell out at this point (will expand on that later) so I tucked it all back in



Lobbed the motor back in



And.... it sounded ruddy awful still, as you can tell from the above video, which is a combination of all of the above!

I even changed the bearings for new ones just incase



But to no avail. So into the shed it got thrown! Until Dame Dilys from Autovac saved the day!

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZzVcc3--q4
With a scrapper machine!



Which has an identical head and a random cream body



The head had been pillaged for parts, but TBH since I only wanted it for the motor I wasn't fussed



Both brushrolls were equally worn

beko1987:


Different belts though, although they were the same size



Comparing the two heads, the one Dilys sent was in FAR better condition.... So I swapped the baseplate over, and connected it all up



Another collector (HooverMaster) sent me a random box of bits, and lobbed in a lovely condition dusting brush and upholstry tool, which was handy as the upholstry tool with the machine was some random thing



A better dusting brush



And from Dilys's box I got a non broken wand



And a much better crevice tool



So all that got sorted out



And...

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=AexBf85sjEE
I had a complete, actually working (bar a dirty fan) S7!

beko1987:


Which was fantastic! It hung around for a while, until finally, it's day came! (here we go  8))

Small tools off



Small tools split



Cable off



Hose and wand off



Hose off the wand



This next bit took about 20 minutes, and a conversation with Dorian from HooverLux to figure out. There is a hole here



One needs to push a screwdriver REALLY HARD into this hole



And whilst pulling on the wand and pushing inside this hole, the handle eventually comes out

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