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Hoover Module 900 S4338 - Stripdown and Refurbishment!
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June 17, 2019, 10:00:26 pm »
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This little vacuum came my way for 'a quick polish of the hood, it doesn't need much'...
Before all that though, the usual before video
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg82Onkho94
TBH it ran really good. However, in order to polish the plastic, it needed to be stripped down, because I hate catching the edge of stuff with the polisher, ad it's always much easier when its apart.
It's basically a dry only Hoover Aquamaster
This shows the dull finish of the hood
Cable off, and we take a fleeting look at the bag housing, but this has been washed already, as it was a bit filthy apparently, so we won't touch that
Filter is spotless too, again it's been washed
We just need this bit
The handle unscrews with a screw at either end, with a plastic retaining ring to make the screw captive
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Re: Hoover Module 900 S4338 - Stripdown and Refurbishment!
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June 17, 2019, 10:06:45 pm »
This all spins off nicely to remove the screws from the brackets
The brackets are removed from the handle by tapping the two retaining pins out
Time to find some screws
One is visible, the other sits under this cover
The top lid lifts off
The switch cover pops out
Next, we need to remove the mains cable. Interestingly, this vacuum dates from the late 1980's, the cord clamp is identical to the ones used on the early 1960's Hoover Juniors!
The cable exit grommit can be pulled off the cable too
And with that off, we can get the switch lifted up
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June 17, 2019, 10:13:49 pm »
Nice and simple wiring here
That part done, time to move down a level and remove the motor exhaust diffuser
Then 4 more screws lifts the inner motor housing up and off, revealing the true condition of the machine (the owner did really clean it up when he got it externally, this has seen some proper use by all accounts before it was saved)
Hello motor
Top sealing ring removed
Sound deadening removed
And out with the motor
Fancase seal out
There is a bucket seal too, but it seemed glued in so I left it alone
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June 17, 2019, 10:19:54 pm »
Next off is the cage designed to stop the motor sucking the filter up into the suction vent
Which just unscrews
The motor itself has another seal on the top of the fancase, which gets sealed down from the top with the inner housing, this is removed
The motor however, throughout all this was raining crap onto my work carpet...
Off came the fancase
The top cooling fan cover unscrews from the motor
Revealing...
The top cooling fan unscrews
There was a picture of the general state of the motor from the side, but it's really blurry so this is the pile of crap after I spent 15 minutes picking every bit of filth out of the thing, and removing the fan for washing...
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June 17, 2019, 10:27:11 pm »
I then had a look at the plug, and noticed the neutral cable was showing bare wire
Plus the plug itself was dirty, so to complete the full anal that I am known for, it came apart for washing!
So, everything was washed, dried, and then POLISHED!
Much better!
Time to be laid out for a pretty picture
Then the Hamster gave me a hand re-assembling! (Fun fact, I'm typing this on the very same Thinkpad T43 as in the picture! It would have been running MX Linux at the time, but now runs a very striped down Windows 7 which is going much better on it)
After shot of the motor. the motor ran really REALLY well, so I didn't dis-assemble it to fully wash the plastic parts as I didn't want to break it, so this is as good as it got
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June 17, 2019, 10:32:59 pm »
It's these HATEFUL ruddy wiring connections, I always end up ripping the plug out of the motor when I try and unplug them
Anyway, the top and bottom fans got replaced and the cooling fan cover replaced
Top seal fitted
Top fancase seal fitted
Lower fancase seal is fitted to the chassis
Motor dropped in
Sound deadening dropped in
The motor wiring runs up the top through a little hole
All back into the switch
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June 17, 2019, 10:36:42 pm »
Exhaust diffuser dropped on
The switch cover is fitted, and the top sound damper foam is hot glued onto the underside of the lid
Lid fitted
Handle fitted
Plug end wiring before
Much tidier
Time to cover this up
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June 17, 2019, 10:40:29 pm »
And wouldn't you know it, we are done!
Looks even better with a few coats of wax
And we are done! just a quick polish, nothing too in depth...
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT3-29YO85s
Thank you for reading!
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