Hoover softwave – new brushes – burning smell

[MickGeorge]

Hi folks

went to this today to change armature as bearings noisy – fitted a Qualtex ARM40 that i had on my van plus gen brushes (09036062) – run it up n burning/overheating smell from armature?

Cuttin a long story short n two hours later – changed front bearing on orig. armature + new gen brushes – still burning smell – replaced with old half worn brushes and no burning smell.

Have had a similar prob to this about 20yrs ago when I fitted patten brushes to a Logic (never fitted patten Hvr brushes since).

Question – anyone else had this?

Noticed that the new gen brushes had deep milling groves on the angle where as the old gen ones used to be smooth – are Candy gettin some cheap crap brushes in these days? :rolls: If so are there any quality patten brushes out there?

Thanks

Mick

[iadom]

Re: Hoover softwave – new brushes – burning smell

AFAIK the gen brushes have had those grooves in the face of the carbons for years now, long before Candy came on the scene.

[timdowning]

Re: Hoover softwave – new brushes – burning smell

I did find that the grooves caused bedding in problems.

So I always ‘smooth off’ the new brushes before fitting them, never had a problem since doing this.

[MickGeorge]

Re: Hoover softwave – new brushes – burning smell

Hmmmm… Been to a Logic today brushes worn down so fitted the same brushes that were giving me grief yesterday but filed off the grooves before fitting them and bingo – no smell from that machine 🙂

Just makes me still wonder if it was the brushes in the end as must have been fitting groved brushes for ages and not had a prob before..

Ah well just another of life’s little mysteries….

Thanks for the replies tho folks

Mick

[bruce118]

Re: Hoover softwave – new brushes – burning smell

Pattern brushes I bought from Masterpart some time ago seem to be made of graphite and were burning out motors I fitted them to. Had 2 motors come back burnt out and worn out or stuck brushes, soon realised that this was the problem. Have not bought brushes from them again and have had issues with other pattern parts from them.

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