What model, I have a Bosch that is about 3 years old.
Under the new EU rules, it is the responsibility of the retailer to replace goods if they do not last. Got a full refund and £100 from Tesco when my last one failed after 18 months.

Posted By: SteamyTeaWhat model, I have a Bosch that is about 3 years old.
Under the new EU rules, it is the responsibility of the retailer to replace goods if they do not last. Got a full refund and £100 from Tesco when my last one failed after 18 months.

Lets not give the EU any credit here where they don't deserve it, we already had legislation that was superior to what they asked their member states to introduce....... we have the Sale of Goods act 1979 (as amended).... it doesn't entitle you to a full refund after 18 months and definitely doesn't entitle you to £100 extra, if a retailer chooses to do so then great but that's them doing it out of their own goodwill rather than legislation forcing them! I suspect its one of those situations where Tesco can appear to be the good guys by pleasing the customer and billing their supplier for all costs incurred.

Entitlement would be for a repair or a _partial_ refund if it could be shown (onus on consumer after 6 months) that there was some defect with the goods present at time of manufacture (brushes being made out of inappropriate material/not seated correctly etc) as opposed to just having a lifetimes use (i.e. you put a coin meter on it and used it in a laundrette).

Sorry about being short but its force of habit when I hear about misinformation about EU "rules".........

For the OP by all means try the retailer and the manufacturer but do you know anyone with a lathe that could clean the commutator up maybe?

Thanks for the offer snyggapa but I wanted to get it sorted quickly as kids were due back today from adventure camp with a weeks worth of dirty clothes. Ordered a new motor on Friday night from Bosch via Amazon. Arrived today (Saturday) lunchtime and was fitted 30 mins later. Fantastic service at a price. Could have got it slightly cheaper had I been prepared to wait up to a week for delivery.

Just wish I'd checked the brushes 6 months ago. The rest of the machine seems in A1 condition. No play in the drum bearing or any sign of water leaks anywhere so should now be good for quite a few more years I think. Have ordered a spare set of brushes so I can service it in say two years time.

The originals were 40mm long. had worn down to 10mm or so.

I had the old motor apart today and although it's scored it might be possible to get the commutator skimmed. If I can find someone to do that I might put it up on ebay or keep as a spare.

For info it's a Bosch Exxcel 7 Model WAE28467UK/16. I think it's about three years old but it gets virtually daily use so perhaps older than it' years.

PS: It's quite hard to get a new brush in - The long spring makes it like trying to stuff a live snake into a small hole so probably easier to take the motor out than replace the brushes in the machine.

DC motors with brushes. Yuk. The sooner we're rid of them the better!

Mine was a bit too far gone to do it with emery paper. I thought about trying to spin the rotor in a drill and use a file but not enough of the shaft available to do that. The bearings and a pully were pressed on. The man that did it had a 4 jaw chuck big enough to put the wound part of the rotor in and centrer the com with a dial guage. Took longer to set up than to cut.

Posted By: marktimeI used to have a small workshop servicing steam irons, toasters and hair dryers.

When I was at school, I used to work in the local electrical shop at weekends. Apart from me, there were three (or was it four?) full-time staff in there repairing everything from toasters to televisions. To be fair, they also did installations. It was just a regular neighbourhood shop.

Yep, if something's going to be scrap anyway it's worth a quick look inside. Not as clean-cut as Gusty's case but I pulled a couple of wireless routers out of storage the other day and tried to set them up back-to-back this afternoon to boost the Wi-Fi signal I get in this caravan. One had the lights on but was not responding at all so opened the box and found the aerial cable was not plugged into the main board. Fixed that and it still wouldn't work until, at about the 20th attempt, it hard reset OK and now it seems to be working fine including noticeably better range than it had before - aerial must have been off since new.