From: "John A. Weeks III" 
Newsgroups: misc.consumers.house
Subject: Re: Vaccum Cleaner Help
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 06:34:04 -0500

In article ,
 Rick Blaine  wrote:

> mkbobba@hotmail.com wrote:
> 
> >I have been using my Hoover Vaccum Cleaner ( with bag) for last 4 years
> >and it suddenly started making loud noise and I had to pull out the
> >chord from the plug point.
> >
> 
> Generally, its a good idea to replace the bag a little more often than once
> every 4 years. :)
> 
> >Is this motor burn out?
> >
> 
> Chances are, no. You probably have something gummed up around the beater bar.
> Its usually hair or a string.  Most modern vacs are pretty simple to
> disassemble, clean and put back together. Worse case, you replace the bar and
> the belt.

I have a consumer grade Hoover.  I had some air get wound up around
the beater bar.  It turns out that the connection between the beater
bar and the frame is a plastic stub that fits into a plastic hole, so
it is a plastic on plastic bearing.  By the time that I noticed the
problem, the plastic contact area had heated up and started to melt.
There is no way to fix it short of replacing the frame and beater bar,
which costs more than a new unit.  So much for my experience with
Hoover.

-john-

-- 
======================================================================
John A. Weeks III           952-432-2708            john@johnweeks.com
Newave Communications                         http://www.johnweeks.com
======================================================================