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Electrolux Twin Turbo Z522 - Stripdown & Refurbishment!
« on: March 21, 2019, 10:20:25 pm »
This Electrolux twin Turbo is a very late one. Born in a time when the Twin Turbo was a run out, budget, bottom of the line model! A far cry from the days of the 506 Electronic (https://manchestervacs.co.uk/DysonForum/index.php/topic,1737.0.html), and now demoted to below machines such as the Glider (itself a fairly low end machine) (https://manchestervacs.co.uk/DysonForum/index.php/topic,3747.0.html) The Twin Turbo shape lumbered on until the mid 1990's.

This one belongs to a collector called James (the guy who also owns this DC02 Arctic Solo (https://manchestervacs.co.uk/DysonForum/index.php/topic,3821.0.html), and it didn't sound at all lovely when it entered the hospital


So let's see about sorting that out!



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The plug was scrap

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And the cable grommit split (although you can't see that too much here)

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As per all Twin Turbo's, the handle part hinges off the bag compartment to get to the bag

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The foam gasket (which always perished and turned to dust) has been replaced with a nice rubber perimeter seal. 2 screws and the whole thing lifts off

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And the seal was glued on, but most of that had failed so we shall replace that

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Being a low end budget vac, the wiring was VERY simple at this point, as the switch is not in the handle on these

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Re: Electrolux Twin Turbo Z522 - Stripdown & Refurbishment!
« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2019, 10:23:40 pm »
The handle can be removed by tapping (gently) the 2 pins out of the hinge assembly

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Then we can remove the cable and pull it through

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The switch and top cover plate (presumably for fancier variable power models, they just clipped a different blank in) pop out

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The cable guide comes out in pieces

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And that is this part done!

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2 screws now to remove the carry handle

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Mmmm filth

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Let's have the bag out

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Re: Electrolux Twin Turbo Z522 - Stripdown & Refurbishment!
« Reply #2 on: March 21, 2019, 10:26:39 pm »
And see what the filters look like!

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The top one is interesting...

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The second one

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Has probably never been removed!

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Filters removed!

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On this model, the bag door latch clip taps apart as well, this is a one piece riveted unit on the older machines

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That all done, we now need to venture down below

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And remove the base plate

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Re: Electrolux Twin Turbo Z522 - Stripdown & Refurbishment!
« Reply #3 on: March 21, 2019, 10:29:55 pm »
With the hose clamp removed the baseplate can come away from the cleaner

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Brushroll out

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The bearings are very good which is ace as their a non removable type and these brushrolls are a bit unobtanium to get hold of!

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Knackered brush strips removed

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Onto the release pedal now, which is removed with 2 screws holding metal brackets on

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It all sort of falls apart after that

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These 2 nylon wheels help the whole assembly roll smoothly. These often seize up and wear completely flat! These are OK

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Re: Electrolux Twin Turbo Z522 - Stripdown & Refurbishment!
« Reply #4 on: March 21, 2019, 10:33:05 pm »
The rear wheels are a circlip away from freedom too

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The motor cover can be unscrewed now, and amazingly none of the pressed in screw threads came with it!

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Dusty

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The feed cable is held in place with this plastic peg you can just about see under the motor housing rubber seals

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Pull and remove

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Unplug the wires from the supressor and the motor is free

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The motor itself is not very happy

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Kerknackered

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Fancase seal off

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Re: Electrolux Twin Turbo Z522 - Stripdown & Refurbishment!
« Reply #5 on: March 21, 2019, 10:40:27 pm »
Let's remove the supressor as their the explodey fire type, and oh look, it's starting to crumble! It does this until the connections inside make sweet explosive smoking love...

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In the bin that goes!

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Let's pop the catches to release the top part of the motor (which is all you can do on these in the UK, Mr Gareth Sheen will be reading this with his smug face on...)

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And whip that bearing out for the bin as well

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The armature looks fine

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Tap the fancase off incase there's any surprises lurking inside, which there is not

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I've sen fluff and stuff build up in here, the ESP motors had a big spring around the edge of the fan too which was gr9 for catching all the dirt over 3 decades!

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Time for the front wheels now

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Re: Electrolux Twin Turbo Z522 - Stripdown & Refurbishment!
« Reply #6 on: March 21, 2019, 10:45:13 pm »
These all just pull apart



The height adjustment knob is held in with 2 brackets

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The bumper screws on with a screw on each end

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The cover plate on the hood was very rattley, and infact came off wit ha light shove from my finger, all the glue had dried

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Picked it all off

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Someone has tried to perk it up at some point in the past though it seems

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Oh look, a ratings plate! Week 25 1988

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These felt rings, well, 1 and a half rings sit around the pivot joint betwixt the bag housing and motor housing. One is worn right away

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Re: Electrolux Twin Turbo Z522 - Stripdown & Refurbishment!
« Reply #7 on: March 21, 2019, 10:50:23 pm »
Time for the bag housing now

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The tool port cover/suction adjuster unscrews, revealing the screw for the other part underneath

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The internal hose prises out of it's place



To remove the spinal cord, first tie something to the cable and pull it through, to aid pulling it back afterwards as it's a sod of a job otherwise! I found this fetching blue ribbon...

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And that is that!

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Ran the metalwork over the wire wheel

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And everything was washed, dried and polished!

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Re: Electrolux Twin Turbo Z522 - Stripdown & Refurbishment!
« Reply #8 on: March 21, 2019, 10:58:18 pm »
Starting with the cover for the hood

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Much hot glue later

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It was fitted!

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I put the motor together now. Part of the reason I removed the fancase was unlike most other motors, the fancase is held on by tape, which nowadays is very much not sticky. Usually I use insulation tape and give it a good few hard wraps, but I could not find it so sellotape does the job perfectly well, it hasn't got to look nice!

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The fancase bearing had been fed much oil over the prior few days, and the top end was reassembled with a nice new bearing

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And clipped together!

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The spinal cord was pulled back through the bag housing

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Internal hose re-assembled (white bit goes inside the hose to stop it collapsing, rubber seal goes around the outside, square edges to the side)

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Pushed in wit ha drop of oil or similar otherwise it's an utter mare of a job to get it to slide in

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Re: Electrolux Twin Turbo Z522 - Stripdown & Refurbishment!
« Reply #9 on: March 21, 2019, 11:01:35 pm »
The cover then screws on and holds it all together

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Tool port now

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Height adjustment knob

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The front wheels were re-assembled with a drop of grease on the spindles

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Motor rubbered up and dropped into place

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Then the bag housing had it's felt rings fitted, the whole thing was dropped into place, the mains cable run and the wires soldered directly to the motor terminals and heatshrunk accordingly!

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Re: Electrolux Twin Turbo Z522 - Stripdown & Refurbishment!
« Reply #10 on: March 21, 2019, 11:05:09 pm »
Everything needs to be checked for alignment now, and it's a very fiddly and annoying job the 6th time it all falls apart

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But finally the motor cover can go on! Do the 4 screws around the pivots up first

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Fit the spring for the front wheels

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Start to assemble the recline pedal now, drop of grease on these wheels

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And assemble it all! You need to hold the rear wheels and pedal with one hand, then fit the spring, metal bracket and screw with the other!

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The brushroll weighs about 2 ton less now it's not full of dust

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The brushes are being fitted in the after video, along with the belt so in the naked shell goes for now

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Baseplate can go on

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Re: Electrolux Twin Turbo Z522 - Stripdown & Refurbishment!
« Reply #11 on: March 21, 2019, 11:07:58 pm »
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Bag door clip on

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Carry handle fitted

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Flying ever higher now, a new cable grommit is fitted (got a few of these, their very handy!)

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Some evidence of fading compared to under the trim piece, not noticeable when assembled though

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Clip

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Join all the wires together and fit the switch

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Glue the bag seal back on

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Fit the little square seal for the suction channel

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Re: Electrolux Twin Turbo Z522 - Stripdown & Refurbishment!
« Reply #12 on: March 21, 2019, 11:09:59 pm »
I found another plug, and shone the pins up because I'm a sad perfectionist like that

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And now it is Ever Ready

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To power this



For the next 40 or 50 years!


Hope you enjoyed it, and stay tuned for the next exciting rebuild thread!

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