Looking on Fleabay I could find nothing to match the part number so ended up phoning a friend (thanks Bluechip
) who confirmed it was probably a standard motor with a filter board stuck on the back end. A few measurements later and back on Fleabay to order some likely looking motors from china so I was expecting it to be at least a month without my beloved Sweep... in the short term I attempted a naughty cheat and turned the motor over on its mount as the wear was on only one side of the bearing and while slightly noisy Sweep has performed for a couple more weeks but he was getting noisy again
Clearly the Chinese don't have time off for Xmas as the first of the motors turned up today: So motor out again, swop the board over (making sure to get it the right way round), fail miserably trying to us a puller to remove the gear, so cut the shaft in two and drill out the remains of the shaft on Mr Silky. Loctite on the end of the shaft and we have a working Sweep again
It sounds like this might be a common problem on these robot vacuum cleaners as there has been another two reports on the manufacturers forum since I reported mine and they still don't want to do spares
Jo
