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Topic: Moulinex E59 Vacuum Cleaner - Stripdown and Restoration (then hacking...) (Read 7147 times)
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Moulinex E59 Vacuum Cleaner - Stripdown and Restoration (then hacking...)
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July 28, 2021, 09:18:03 pm »
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Bonjour!
I say bonjour, because this topic is about a french vacuum from actual france! A kind member of the Autoshite forum who lives that way found it in a family members house, this one in fact
The deal was done (I said yes, and paid the chap some postage) and he bought it back to the UK when he next came and posted it over to me!
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4J44JYWTE4
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Re: Moulinex E59 Vacuum Cleaner - Stripdown and Restoration (then hacking...)
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July 28, 2021, 09:21:49 pm »
The wands are a twist lock connection, with a little tiny thread cast into each end
Floor tool first, which is a rather nice single pedal affair
The sole plate isn't too bad either
Remove the base plate
And the one lint picker
The brush layer comes out next, and is in excellent order
As per alot of other floor tools, the rest is clipped together with this centre part
Then the pivot bar is held down on one side with this plastic piece
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Re: Moulinex E59 Vacuum Cleaner - Stripdown and Restoration (then hacking...)
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July 28, 2021, 09:25:38 pm »
The rest of it falls out at this stage
And with thoughts turning to if they ever got the patents finalised
We can move onto the hose
Which all came apart very easily indeed
Onto the main event!
Open the tool door
And remove it
The tools can come out as well
The tool door button pops out with a tab on either side
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Re: Moulinex E59 Vacuum Cleaner - Stripdown and Restoration (then hacking...)
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July 28, 2021, 09:29:39 pm »
Then the spring and retaining cage lift out
Time to go a step deeper and open the bag door
Then remove it...
The bag seal pulls off easily
This part is the hinge assembly for the tool door, and lifts out with a little help from a DC04 switch removal tool
Moving to the front of the cleaner now, the carry handle/bag door latch unscrews
And the latch mechanism itself pops out with it's two springs
Revealing the bag full indicator
Which for a simple piston indicator is one of the fanciest I've seen! Let's start to take it apart, one side first
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Re: Moulinex E59 Vacuum Cleaner - Stripdown and Restoration (then hacking...)
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July 28, 2021, 09:36:32 pm »
The rest can come out now
We can move further towards the back now, and remove these screws and white bag door hinge brackets
The rather peaky post motor filter slides out too
Best take the pre motor filter out as well
Which promptly fell apart on me
Next out is the bag holder, needs a small bar removing to get out
The bag locking tab has a spring underneath it
and can be removed
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Re: Moulinex E59 Vacuum Cleaner - Stripdown and Restoration (then hacking...)
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July 28, 2021, 09:41:04 pm »
After the distraction of the bag holder, we can flip the outer motor cover off since the 2 screws are already removed
The pedals pull out from the casing
The rubber pads even come off the pedals!
Underneath the top cover we see some tabs.
Some VERY careful prying and...
the fancy cover comes away!
Next we can get onto the electronics, and I will backtrack here as these photo's are from during the before video, when we fixed the machine. See I'd already got to this point
Because in time honoured Miele fashion, a component had become violently part detached from the board, which killed the thing in the first place
Now we are back there we can lift off the power take off socket for a presumably VERY RARE powerhead
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Re: Moulinex E59 Vacuum Cleaner - Stripdown and Restoration (then hacking...)
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July 28, 2021, 09:44:29 pm »
The switch is next
It's see-through on one side, which is rather jolly
Next, time to get into the motor itself
Inner cover removed
This forms part of the cord reel mechanism
And comes out like so
Then we get our first look at the motor and what a biggun it is
The cord reel has no brake itself (that's what the previously removed parts are) so I lobbed a cable tie around it to stop it flinging itself to death under its own tension and lifted it out
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Re: Moulinex E59 Vacuum Cleaner - Stripdown and Restoration (then hacking...)
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July 28, 2021, 09:49:12 pm »
The cable exit guide fell out during this part too
Back to the front AGAIN to remove the 2 screws holding on the big seal that goes all around the middle layer of the machine (I'm sure it made sense at the time...)
Then the very sticky seal can be removed
Nearly forgot the ratings plate shot, here it is!
Front wheel comes off too
Next, out comes the motor!
Wiring reference shot
Thermal cut out device on the neutral line
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Re: Moulinex E59 Vacuum Cleaner - Stripdown and Restoration (then hacking...)
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July 28, 2021, 09:52:52 pm »
The bearings are pretty cack on the motor so we need to see what we can do (spoiler alert, I
it up...) so out come the carbon brushes, lots of life left in those!
Then the brush holders themselves
Then the bolts holding the top housing on can be seen and removed
Coil lifts off
Then this hard foam spacer
Moulinex made the motor itself too
At some time before 1992
The top bearing has a spacer/packer piece
With the top end stripped, we can remove the fancase
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Re: Moulinex E59 Vacuum Cleaner - Stripdown and Restoration (then hacking...)
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July 28, 2021, 09:58:28 pm »
And start to disassemble the fan assembly
Middle section
Then the lower fans
But, try as I might, I could not get the armature out of the fancase bearing. I even shed blood trying as you can see, and ultimately bent it ever so slightly, which we will come back to later...
I even faffed about removing this small bolted on part which turned out to just be a bearing shield and did not release the motor
Hey ho. Everything was washed, polished, the metal parts run over the wire wheel and laid out the obligatory exploded diagram moneyshot!
And straight back to the motor! I just filled the bearing with oil and let it soak in
Nicely washed fans back on
Centre piece back in
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Re: Moulinex E59 Vacuum Cleaner - Stripdown and Restoration (then hacking...)
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July 28, 2021, 10:01:37 pm »
Then the top fan and nut
And the fancase finally
Up top a nice new bearing was fitted
And capped off
Foam spacer
Coil
Then top housing
Popped the carbon brush holders into their holders (yo, do you like holders?)
And screwed them in
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Re: Moulinex E59 Vacuum Cleaner - Stripdown and Restoration (then hacking...)
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July 28, 2021, 10:04:59 pm »
Refitted all the wires
Popped the seals on and put it to one side
Back to some plastic fantastic
Front wheel on
Then back over
And straight in with the main seal (I thought I'd removed it in a silly place before...)
Screwed in nicely at the front
Cable reel can be dropped in
Then the motor can join it
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Re: Moulinex E59 Vacuum Cleaner - Stripdown and Restoration (then hacking...)
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July 28, 2021, 10:19:25 pm »
Refit the cable brake bar
Then making sure all the wires are routed correctly, and tucking it into the rubber seal which was a massive sod the inner cover can go back on
We'll start with the switch to get 2 wires out the way
Then the board and power socket can go back down
And all the wires run and plugged in
Vanity cover snapped back into the back top frame
Pedal rubbers refitted to the pedals
Then the pedals to the frame
On to the front now, and the bag holder. I refitted the lock to the holder frame
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Re: Moulinex E59 Vacuum Cleaner - Stripdown and Restoration (then hacking...)
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July 28, 2021, 10:23:42 pm »
Then threaded the bar in to lock that to the main cleaner
In time honoured tradition I cut up a cheap non genuine Miele pre motor filter for the pre motor filter
and a non genuine active air clean post filter for the post filter!
Then screwed the bag door hinges in
Bag full indicator time now
Assembled and fitted, it's very nice to work with compared to the crap Hoover used to use in the Compact (the competitor to this back in the day)
I then fitted a new bag. Not a proper bag, as A - I couldn't find any and B - They would be single layered paper bags anyway, so I went for an upgrade
Pushes onto the hose inlet moulding, needs the bag holder shoved out of the way for the bag door to close but it works well! Then the tool door latch was refitted
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Re: Moulinex E59 Vacuum Cleaner - Stripdown and Restoration (then hacking...)
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July 28, 2021, 10:29:49 pm »
Seems I only took one picture of the floor tool so here it is...
and I got no pictures of the hose but imagine screwing the ends on to a very clean length of hose and you wont be far off! Once finished, waxed and buffed we have this!
Not too sure why I took this photo but I did and here it is!
And it looks brilliant, and does work well...
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ltjlBZCEWc
But, as time went on and I used it here and there it became apparent that (and back to the motor now) something was not right, and there was a deep vibrating resonance that could only be caused by me bending the armature ever so slightly... So I did the sensible thing and changed the motor!
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqbuBkMg8fQ
It made it sounds awful, just like a Dyson but it was smooth and flipping powerful! I did keep the original motor though, and sitting here typing this I wonder if I might not try and straighten the armature out a tad and see if I can make it run better, but that crappy fancase bearing would still sound awful, so I might just leave it... Any suggestions/motivation?
Either way, thank you very much for reading, and if you have an old Moulinex vacuum, I'd love to see it!
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