A lot of those motors had the air flow over the commutator, and it would get dirt or sand in it when people didn't put the bag in right, or would use it till the bag was full, and ripped. I wasn't working on the vacuums, just the motors so the only parts I saw were new bushes & bearings. A neighbor was in the used vacuum cleaner business and would give me half a van load of bad motors at a time, then buy back any that I fixed.
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Michael A. Terrell Inscribed thus:
That sounds like a nice little earner. ;-)
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$10 to $20 for common motors, and $50 for Rainbow/Rexaire. He would stop by in a panic, telling me what he needed. I'd tell him to give me an hour to dig through my good motors and would try to find one. Then i would dig out what he needed, and fix it. A lot had dmagaed fans from metal or glass being picked up, so it was a five minute job to remove them and a set of good ones from a burnt out motor, polish the armature and put it all together. then the scrap metal went into bins for the scrapyard. I got really good with a wood chisel & various punches to remove the copper from the old motors. The segments were easy to remove, with a pipe wrench. Clamp the armature in a vise, and give a twist with the wrench. it was kind of like taking corn off a cob. ;-)
Sometimes I would strip 100 bad motors at a time, for the good parts just to make room.
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A very profitable exercise nowadays with the price of copper being so high. I just wish the thieves would stop stealing the iron grates and aluminum road signs. A whole load of them have vanished overnight. Not to mention the theft of copper wiring from the railway system.
Next door neighbor came round today and asked if I knew that water from the kitchen sink was pouring out of the wall and onto the yard !!! The swine had pinched the two meters of lead drain pipe between the wall and grate,
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THAT'S SHOCKING ! FREAKING SCAVENGERS. IT OUGHT TO BE A FELONY. TGITM
They are destroying central air condition equipment around here, for the couple dollars worth of copper tubing. Some businesses were hit twice within weeks. Their insurance only covered it once. Some of the thefts were from non profits that had no coverage and had to do without it in Central Florida. :(
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The problem is pretty easy to solve, given that the legislators *want* to solve it. That they haven't tells us a lot.
Yeah, like all of a sudden Obama gives a shit about our military losing their homes while serving overseas, but it wasn't important before time to run for re-election.
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Obama is like AlwaysWrong. If you want to know what he wants to do, just reverse what he says. He will always do the opposite of what he says he wants.
ONLY AN IDIOT WOULD BLAME THE PRESIDENCY FOR CRAP LIKE THAT. WHAT ABOUT THE DIM DUMB ASSES WHOS JOB IT IS TO PROTECT THE PUBLIC FROM SUCH LOSES, WHY DON'T YOU BAD MOUTH THEM.........?
AS ALWAYS YOU OUT DO YOURSELVES WITH THIS NONSENSICAL OFF TOPIC COMMENTARY.
WHY DONT YOU JUST SHUT THE HELL UP AND MIND YOUR MANNERS, IT IS OBVIOUS YOU ARE TOO PREJUDICED TO SUPPLY A SENSIBLE RESPONSE TO ANY TOPIC HERE.
FREAKING OBAMATARDS ! PAT ECUM TGITM
SHOCKING !
ABSOLUTELY SHOCKING !
BOOWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA !
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Homerland Security stated:
"the return of military veterans facing significant challenges reintegrating into their communities could lead to the potential emergence of terrorist groups or lone wolf extremists capable of carrying out violent attacks"
Now the same party is doing a 180° turn?
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Sure, they figured out that it didn't "poll" well in their focus groups.
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HEY WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH MOTORS? WE KNOW YOU BOTH FIT THE LONE WOLF PROFILE TO A TEE, BUT PLEASE ! DO NOT POST YOUR NEO-PATRIOTIC RHETORIC HERE, THE PEOPLE ARE PARANOID ENOUGH WITHOUT YOUR DELIBERATE DELUSIONS OF DESTRUCTION. STAY ON TOPIC OR WE ALL STAY OFF TOPIC. PATECUM TGITM
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