[mlscontractcleaner]

Good morning.

I know this is probably difficult to answer but as a guide how long would you expect to get out of a vacuum from a twin vac portable machine ...... it's a Woodbridge Powerplus ......... if carpet cleaning was only a small part of your business with maybe two or three jobs per week?

I only ask as one was replaced in October and has gone again already; that just seems a bit quick to me.

Any advice will be gratefully received.

[stuart_clark]

I have a sebo bs 36 that is still going strong, I purchased it back in 1998
does that answer your question ?

[John Kelly]

You should get 12 months, any longer is a bonus. Strangely little used machines tend to fail quicker then those in constant use.

[Frank pole]

if your taking in foam or not drying out the motors after every job then any vac motor will fail quickly, but looked after, with regular use then you should easy get a years service.

the powerplus runs their vacs in series, are you sure its the newly fitted vac motor thats failed, seems weird that an older motor has out lived the brand new one - Where did you buy the new one from?

[mlscontractcleaner]

I bought it from Woodbridge; and it's definitely the same one.

Someone said to dry out my motors after using it; at the risk of sounding thick how do I do that???

[John Kelly]

Just open the waste tank lid and run the vacs for a few minutes. Make sure any filters are clean.

[mlscontractcleaner]

Cheers for that; handy these sites aren't they 

[Frank pole]

To be honest, for how much they cost it may be worth while replacing the pair of them as sods laws tells you the older VAC motor will die in a few months then you have the grief of diving back in the the machine to replace that one as well!

[Jamie Pearson]

Just changed 2 x 5.7" USA built Lambs (not Mexico) that came out of our Hydroforce Olympus Tile & Grout machine we bought from Alltec in 2004. (Its basically an Alltec Elite 1200)

They were still working, just not sucking very well due to corrosion. This machine gets flooded regularly due to the nature of the work it does cleaning poolsides. We run it to dry at the end of each job but ultimately its the way they are fed air that we think has made them last so long.

Will need to wait and see how long these replacements last. It may be a case of they dont make them like they used to!

[Frank pole]

Just changed 2 x 5.7" USA built Lambs (not Mexico) that came out of our Hydroforce Olympus Tile & Grout machine we bought from Alltec in 2004. (Its basically an Alltec Elite 1200)

They were still working, just not sucking very well due to corrosion. This machine gets flooded regularly due to the nature of the work it does cleaning poolsides. We run it to dry at the end of each job but ultimately its the way they are fed air that we think has made them last so long.

Will need to wait and see how long these replacements last. It may be a case of they dont make them like they used to!

Jamie - what replacement VAC motors did you fit?

[Jamie Pearson]

We fitted the same as replacement.

116859-13 (USA built) came out and 116859-13 (EU built) went in.

[Ian Gourlay]

I used to think what killed vacuums was sitting around in cold van in winter I still do  and pumps

[mlscontractcleaner]

Thanks for the advice lads