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Henry resurrected
One of the first things I bought upon moving to Scotland was Numatic's iconic
The fix puzzled me a little. A metal rod exposed from the end of the brush cylinder fits into a small black plastic receptacle at the side. This seemed to be the cause of the issue but it wasn't obviously obstructed or damaged and oil didn't help. I enlarged the receptacle using a flathead screwdriver and now the brush again whirls, albeit with a new whistling noise that makes me wonder if I accidentally reassembled it so as to reverse some piece of the mechanism or otherwise cause it to take not quite its original form. Still, overall a success.
Henryvacuum cleaner with the extra Airo Brush add-on (complete with an additional smiling face) whose air-driven whirling brush is excellent for picking up the cat hair deposited by Pippin. Unfortunately, recently the whirling stopped, the rotary brush's motion having become rather stiff.
The fix puzzled me a little. A metal rod exposed from the end of the brush cylinder fits into a small black plastic receptacle at the side. This seemed to be the cause of the issue but it wasn't obviously obstructed or damaged and oil didn't help. I enlarged the receptacle using a flathead screwdriver and now the brush again whirls, albeit with a new whistling noise that makes me wonder if I accidentally reassembled it so as to reverse some piece of the mechanism or otherwise cause it to take not quite its original form. Still, overall a success.