Numatic Henry HVR200 - Stripdown and motor replacement!

I picked this little fellow up from the car boot a few weeks ago for £10. I had been after a diy/car/dirty jobs vac for a while now, and this seemed to fit the bill nicely.







 However, it had been heavily abused, and had no suction at all so of course I stripped it down!
 First to be fixed was the hose, I chopped off each broken end and put it back together!
As you can hear, he doesnt sound healthy!

So, off with his head!

 Yummy!
 Found this stuffed deep in the cord rewind system



 it was VERY dusty! No wonder it blew dust out when turned on
 Oh, the motor looks fun...


 I cant believe this still ran!
I started unpicking the wiring
 Cord rewind cables out
 Thermal cutout for the motor removed

 identifing the wires one by one
 Switch and power socket are out

 Power socket stripped down for cleaning
 contact rings removed


 And onto the motor!
Carbon holders out

 2 bolts under the holders and the top part 'taps' away from the main motor



 The fan chamber splits down more now

 Fully clogged





 still fully clogged!

 Pile of rubbish just from the motor
 I then moved on to the filter and base
I wonder what caused the motor to fill up with hair?
 Ah look, a hole! It's all well and good using these bagless but not when the filter is torn!
 and filthy!
 Took the seal off and cage out and put it in the washing machine along with the hose!

 Removed the bag fill neck
 and removed the front wheels
 Scraped the worse of the rubbish out of the tub

 and removed the rear wheels. The whole lot was then washed and scrubbed until it looked lovely again!



 And back together!


 Sadly however, all this cleaning proved too much for the motor, which suffered armature failure very shortly afterwards. Luckily, I have a spare good motor from an NV250 which I scrapped long ago, so I fitted that to Henry
 And put a longer cable on as the original was very short and cut in several places
 Nice new bag too
 Henry now reached to my shed at the end of the garden without needing an extension lead
 And an after video!

Henry has now helped me clean out several other machines, as well as the shed, the car and the patio! Hopefully he will last another 21 years!


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