Mike asked me if I could take a look at his dome motor as the wires had got caught and broke, right at the point of the housing. He had already taken the motor apart, it was just the brush housing that needed to come apart to gain access to the wire contacts.
I wasn’t able to look at it properly before the weekend, so took my tools with me to the Christmas event to attempt it’s repair.
It’s not pretty, but it was the best I could do. The wires are connected to ‘pressed in tabs’, so I had to use the remains of the original wire connected to them to be able to solder the broken wires back on. The short red and black wires are the original broken short parts of the wires, once connected these were trimmed off to allow the upper part of the housing to fit together.
The springs were repositioned first, behind the brush heads, and then the upper housing was reattached, whilst my middle finger held the now sprung loaded bushes, back whilst inserting the motors shaft between them……phew!
The above was learned after the third attempt at re-assembly lol.
Once reassembled, Mike tested the motor and it worked fine. Another notch added to my repair list lol.
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