Miele vacuum motor teardown

[voicey]

I'm tearing down my Miele vacuum after I used it to clean up a ton of filler dust (which it didn't like one bit). I've got to the motor but can't figure out how to get the impeller off - there doesn't seem to be an easy way of holding the shaft to undo the but. Can someone point me in the right direction please?

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• voicey
• 21 Dec 2013
• 1

 

[Burnerman]

Can you hold the impeller with a fabric strap wrench? The nut isn't actually that tight - usually!
John

 

[voicey]

Can you hold the impeller with a fabric strap wrench? The nut isn't actually that tight - usually!
John

Thanks. Do I need to hold the impeller then? I thought I had to hold the shaft at the other end!

The impeller is made of aluminium so I'll try carefully....

 

[Burnerman]

If the other end of the shaft is accessible then you can hold that as there's little chance of things twisting. Be careful if it locates in a bearing though!
However, would good blast of compressed air not clean the thing out, or has the armature failed?
John

 

[voicey]

Thanks - problem solved. I found that if I simply held the impeller with my left hand, I could undo the nut with a socket wrench in my right hand - simples! Sometimes I wonder how I made it this far in life...

PS: It was a right hand thread.