ok, i was given this popcorn machine and i've been using it for a few years and i really like it but lately it has been causing me some trouble. nand, let me just show you here. so anyway, there is a motor up inside here that turns the little stirrer for the kettle and it's been starting to slip. so let me turn it on and you will here what i mean. so, basically, you can hear the gears are stripping out. it's not very powerful, i can just stop it easily with my finger. so i'm going to try to pull out the motor before it's totally shot and see if i can replace that.
popcorn popper for coffee roasting, ok, i'm going to try to take off the top. now, there's two phillip screws here on each side. take these off. let's see if we can pull the top off, or at least the cover. so here we have the inside and it's fairly simple. it's just a light socket for the heating bulb and it looks like a little motor mounted through the top of this unit, inside there with a little fan on it.
so there, inside of here there must be a little set of reduction gears and let's see if we can pull that off, get the numbers off of it, and find a replacement. alright, so i'm going to try to take off the motor. there's a little piece here that requires a little allen wrench so i'm going to take that off first. it looks like it's 3/32. loosen that up a bit, let it drop off. a little set screw there. there we go. that should free up the motor here. so i don't know if it's possible just to... i think the motor's ok, it's just the little gear box here that needs the replacing. and it's (if we can get a close-up on this) only 20 volts. multi-products company.
eagle, wisconsin, maybe. spec 30 86. volts, 120. that's all it really says on there, so. let's see if we can find a replacement part for this online. here's the old motor. i ordered a new motor. as you can see, the holes line up basically. but, there is one difference. the shaft is not the same size. one's a little bit bigger. so, the old shaft is about 5/16. the new shaft is just barely above 3/8. so what we need to do, since this part now will not slip over the top like it did with the old one, i think i'm going to have to drill it out. now, we don't have much space left here, between the edge, but i don't think it's gonna be a problem just to drill it out, just the difference to make it this size. and we still can most likely use the set screw. so, let's see if we can drill this piece out. ok, i'm going to drill out the piece here. well, we have a little bit left on each side. i don't think the hole was perfectly centered before, but let's see if the new shaft will fit.
ok, i'm going to put a flat spot in this for the set screw. hopefully i can get it fairly close here. so, now i'm ready to... we've got this sanded flat, rounded down just a little bit more because it was tight going into this other piece right here. but now, this is smooth enough and loose enough. so i'm going to replace the motors, but the interesting thing i found... these come with these clips, but this one's sort of attached already, so what i'm going to do is just cut it off here. and i'm going to cut it off here. ok. this old motor can go out of the way. they are kind of universal, but not really. i'm going to strip this one, strip these wires. hi, pumpie. (our cat)
and i'm going to put these crimp ends on there so that i can just attach it to the new motor. so let me do that. alright. so there we go. we have that in there good. i don't really thing the white matters i don't think, but try to keep them the same. okie doke. now we will line this up. oh. this is interesting. so there's a little piece here that is intruding the way. so i think what i'm going to have to do is stack up some washers around the screws. that's really interesting, because the old motor was absolutely flush on the bottom. they kind of make this semi-universal, i guess. but, that's causing trouble. let me go get some washers. i think what i'm going to use is some nuts that are larger than the new screws that go with it. i think this will be, instead of stacking multiple washers, one of these nuts will fit pretty good to be taller than this.
so, that's what i'm going to do. i'll set a nut over each hole. and that should allow us to have enough standoff. i'll just get them started. now, i'll plug it in and test it real quick to make sure... yep ok. make sure that the motor works. get these wires out of the way so that they do not interfere with the little fan above there that keeps it cool. and, at this point, we can put on our little... there's the flat side, spin it around with my hand to get the flat side straight on.
ok, so i got the set screw tightened. set the kettle back in place here, just to make sure it lines up ok. it's pretty close here. should be good. i'm gonna plug the kettle back in and just re-put on the top and try popping some popcorn to see how the motor works.
oh, yeah!
