Cleaning carbon dust off motor

[twicknix]

I was replacing carbon brushes on Bosch washer. I’ve noticed that some motors are hard to get inside to clean with small paint brush. I am having to find myself having to blow it out but it can cause mess with black dust.

So I thought of some sort of bellow to puff it out, then I came across keyboard cleaner which is an aerosol can filled with compressed air which is rather cheap. Is it safe to use it for cleaning out motors?

Has anyone used this stuff before?

[AMS]

Re: Cleaning carbon dust off motor

Used this myself. Works a treat. Only thing is, as you say, the carbon dust. Makes a bit of a mess and try to avoid breathing it in. Connect also do a spray duster.

[iadom]

Re: Cleaning carbon dust off motor

Those keyboard cleaners really are just compressed air, some of the people on here even use them with a tube attached to blow out gunge from blocked pressure chambers that are hard to get into. Apart from the fact that you will still have the ‘mess’ they will do no harm to the motor.

[admin]

Re: Cleaning carbon dust off motor

when i refurb a machine in work shop i ues my garden vac
blower and that does a great job….but no good in the customers
houses… unless you take the motors out the machine and take
them outside,i also use my henry hoover with a paint brush

canufixit

[twicknix]

Re: Cleaning carbon dust off motor

I have just bought “keyboard” cleaner (looks a bit like a mini fire extinguisher or canister for fog horn although I do not mind making some noise!) and a Karcher wet ‘n’ dry vac. I seem to do a lot of unblocking drain pumps these days, so I decided to purchase a wet vac to speed up the job to minimise flooding the area.

Fed up with filter chamber being too low to the floor and taking forever to empty. I am devising a type of vessel (impoverish take-away tray) that you just slide it under the filter chamber, open up the filter screw, let water dribble out, put vac hose on the vessel so that it is sucking away. The downside is that the vac is taking up space in the van.

Mental note – must look for bigger van…Sorry it was change of subject.

[silverbroom]

Re: Cleaning carbon dust off motor

Hi twicknix, regarding getting water out of machine, check out
http://www.coopersofstortford.co.uk and put in search, liquid transfer pump.

Great device runs on 2 batteries, if you tip the machine back 45{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} open door remove contents, basin on floor then stick the pump in and bob’s yer granny.

silverbroom

[cornwell40]

Re: Cleaning carbon dust off motor

Cat litter trays under the pump. Can’t fail with ’em and only
a couple of quid off ebay.

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