Godammn vacuum cleaner broke. Took it apart, its just a part of the brush roller that is broken. Should be an easy fix. But they don’t sell spare parts for my vacuum. They never have, they just want you to buy a new one. So one little easily replaced plastic bit makes the whole thing into non-functional mostly plastic waste. The vacuum is even clearly designed to be easily repaired, it’s one of the most intelligently laid out appliances I’ve ever seen.
But it’s not profitable to sell spare parts, so I have to send this thing to a landfill if I can’t figure out some ghetto fix. This intentional wastefulness is one of the things that pisses me off about capitalism nearly every day.
It’s a shark zu620. Only way a printed part could fix this is if I could remove the gear and reattach it non-destructively. It seems like it’s riveted or ultrasonically welded onto the metal shaft that goes through the brush roller, I’ve seen this construction method in a bunch of stuff before, but I’m not sure exactly what it is. I don’t even know what to Google to see what this is called.
I wonder if any of the parts not listed as being compatible with my vacuum actually are? That would be great if that was the case.
So the plastic part is broken and you can’t get it seperated from the shaft? Could you just cut the plastic part off and put a new one on if it was in 2 parts?
I thought about doing that, the gap you have to work with us so tiny there is no way to do that without damaging the gear. Might be possible to melt a hole through with a red hot punch or something, but I think it’s more likely I’d make it unrecoverable than fixable. Might try it if I run out of options though.
If you can get me a picture and dimensions of the plastic part I coul try and model a 2 part piece that you just super glue together onto the shaft. I’ve don’t stuff like that before. No promises on it holding together forever if it’s a part that gets really hot, but it’s worth a shot lol
