Cleaning a Vacuum Cleaner’s Universal Motor Commutator to Reduce Sparks (and Stink!)
The vacuum cleaner in the garage was making one hell of a stink and producing a lot of sparking – seems that some gunk had become trapped in the motor brushes/commutator, burnt and caused the brushes to start sparking excessively. I stripped the whole thing down and gave it a clean up.
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