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Re: Electrolux Z1910 Self Propelled - Stripdown and Refurbishment!
« Reply #15 on: November 14, 2018, 08:13:53 pm »
Right, time for some reassembly!

The bin came up very well. Possibly because the dirt doesnt really swirl around, more just fall into the bin

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The shroud and cone need to be fitted together

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And screwed into the machine

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The front handle goes on next

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Filter now

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The filter is a genuine Electrolux one, and doesn't fit! I fitted it anyway...

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Re: Electrolux Z1910 Self Propelled - Stripdown and Refurbishment!
« Reply #16 on: November 14, 2018, 08:17:48 pm »
It can go over to the side for now

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And we can get the chassis out

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The hose to the brushroll goes on first, the ends are screwed on

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And it's screwed into place

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The motor (which is still an unknown at this point)

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Gets rubbered up

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The seals go over the coil terminals

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Belt end rubber seal goes on

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The motor cover is MUCH cleaner now

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Re: Electrolux Z1910 Self Propelled - Stripdown and Refurbishment!
« Reply #17 on: November 14, 2018, 08:23:17 pm »
And gets fitted to the motor. I'm still not sure if this was some sort of sound muffling effort (which doesn't work) or just to stop all the crap going into the motor...

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The outer belt end rubber seal goes on now

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Then the little random pipe got fitted and taped back down. This goes nowhere, and the machine has no bag full indicator, so it is a bit of a mystery

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Wiring then happened

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And got wrapped in the hopefully flameproof foam

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The spinal cable wraps around this moulding, which seems pointless as it's under no movement whatsoever that I can see

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Motor fitted, along with the bowden cable that fits behind the motor

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This rubber bung goes over the hole in the casing for the mains and bowden cables

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Time for the inner suction channel now

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Re: Electrolux Z1910 Self Propelled - Stripdown and Refurbishment!
« Reply #18 on: November 14, 2018, 08:28:37 pm »
The little leak off pipe got fitted

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Then it was clipped in

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Pre motor filter holder and filters go in next

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The filters fell straight out but the metal part needs to be there

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Because the motor cover goes on and holds it in place

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Onto the brushroll housing, and I fitted the furniture guard on

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Fitted the spring for the release pedal

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Then the pedal itself

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Height adjustment knob pushes in

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Re: Electrolux Z1910 Self Propelled - Stripdown and Refurbishment!
« Reply #19 on: November 14, 2018, 08:35:04 pm »
Underneath, the front wheels clip into place

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And the spring that stops them flopping right out is fitted

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It's time to refit the powerdrive gubbins now, but first I popped the cover off the motor and took the gears out

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Cleaned it out a bit, refilled it with grease, then gave the transfer shaft a good coating in silicone spray and fitted that to the motor mount

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Fitted the motor to the holder

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The pivoting inner cage drops in now, with a squirt of slippy on all the contact points

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Now it's time to build up the wheel itself, so I started by giving my shaft a good greasing

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And built it back up, giving all the bearings a good coat of thin grease and working it in, the thing was damn hard to hold afterwards!

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It all then drops into the housing

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Re: Electrolux Z1910 Self Propelled - Stripdown and Refurbishment!
« Reply #20 on: November 14, 2018, 08:40:41 pm »
Everything then got another dose of silicone spray, being careful to squeeze the friction pads together so it didn't seep in to those

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It's buttery smooth now, you could almost hear it over the main suction motor before! The cover was screwed on hastily as it's very easy to drop the assembly out of the housing otherwise

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The foam dust cover for the pivot arm goes on

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And it's all bolted into the main chassis

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The recline switch firms the wiring loom for the little motor, so it goes in next

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With that all in place, the bowden cable was fitted, and every moving part given a squirt of silicone and the pivot clamps fitted. It no longer grinds as it gets pivoted!

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After double checking everything

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The top cover goes over it all

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We move hastily up top now, and wire the mains cable and switch and spinal cord together, and fit the bowden cable through the lower handle

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Re: Electrolux Z1910 Self Propelled - Stripdown and Refurbishment!
« Reply #21 on: November 14, 2018, 08:44:20 pm »
the broken screw mount was glued in, and the switch assembly screwed down

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The bowden cable gets clamped back into the handle, and the handle spring fitted into place

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Moving back down, we can put the brushroll together

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The bearings got a smear of grease under the plastic cap before final fitting

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The hood goes on next

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And it all looks much MUCH nicer underneath!

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The top suction paths/bin seal cleaned up nicely

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Re: Electrolux Z1910 Self Propelled - Stripdown and Refurbishment!
« Reply #22 on: November 14, 2018, 08:48:16 pm »
And dropped into place

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The tool holder is now fitted, which screws the suction ducts in as it goes, and covers all the wires inside

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Tools got fitted

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The pre motor filters go back in

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And the bin can go on

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Looking much better already!

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Hose now

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the ends go on

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and the hose gets fitted to the machine

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Re: Electrolux Z1910 Self Propelled - Stripdown and Refurbishment!
« Reply #23 on: November 14, 2018, 08:57:14 pm »
Then the final post filter is fitted

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Now at this juncture, I did test it, and amazingly the motor does run! Not brilliantly, but considering the armature came from a blown motor, after a clean up and nicer carbons it does run OK with just a slight hint of smell here and there. Not so good was the Bowden cable, I had tried to tape it together, but to no avail and it did nothing.

So, I went into town and went to the bike shop. Once the spotty oiks in there stopped laughing at my intended use, they sold me a new bowden cable

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Which I fitted, which involved dis-assembling the machine again a bit. It came with one end crimped

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It's MUCH thinner than the original, being made for bicycles

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The motor end took some thinking about, because I had no crimps for it, and this being a proof of concept, didn't fancy buying 20 or so to try, so cable ties to the rescue

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But did it work?


Surprisingly yes! Seems the powerdrive gearbag doesnt need much movement so it gets away with it!

So there we go! Ideally it needs another motor, which is very easy to find as it's the same as in the bagged versions which seem about as popular as a bout of the clap, but for now, it works OK!

Thanks for reading!
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