I had one to blow out the dust and reverse the brushes but two things are difficult with this. One are the plastic caps. The are either too tight or the largest screwdriver I have just chips away at the plastic slot. Two. The brushes aren't reversable. Either top to bottom or front to back. Can't even pull them out of the slot without disconnecting them.

So, would a shot of WD, FilmGuard or 3-in-1 oil on the shaft by the bearing do any good or do I just live with the squeaky motor.

Some of my motors have always squeaked. I have not found a way to stop it. I am assuming that it was caused by too much dust during construction, but I'm not 100% sure on that. Spraying oil or FilmGuard on it doesn't seem to help.

Usually, the problem was with the centrifigal switch that switches off the start winding.

Anyways, every time I see one, I make a mental note of some future holiday/birthday/graduation/family event that I will miss while changing one out.

THEY SQUEAK TOO!!!?

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How long have the new Bevan-Pucks been installed on your platters? Bevan was nice enough to send us one of his pucks for Joe to review. Joe has insisted they be tested side by side with a never used Bevan-Putty-Puck (the old style made from genuine Silly Putty carefully molded into that perfect "almost circle" by Bevan's own hands) not on the theater's platters, but on the AW3 in my screening room. Since it does not get used very often (as opposed to testing it at the theater), it will truly be an excellent test of the new Bevan-Puck. I can tell you from experience that a Bevan-Putty-Puck will completely deform within 3-4 months on my AW3 bad enough you can feel it "thumping" in the floor. At the last theater I worked at, some of the Bevan-Putty-Pucks were so bad you could hear them in the auditorium...and yet the projector could NOT be heard!

I'm REALLY hoping these new Bevan-Pucks do what they claim.

Why can't they be made of fairly hard black rubber like tires? Must be they can get the proper milage rating out of them.

1. Remove motor from platter
2. Remove top plate from motor
3. Remove large plastic access caps and pull brushes out a bit.
4. Disassemble motor by removing the two long phillips head screws, carefull, there are nuts at the top.
5. Clean bottom part of dust and such.
6. Use 220 grit paper and clean the $#%& off where the brushes contact the motor. (Armature, commutator, ??)
7. Reassemble. Again, watch orientation. Otherwise, it will go the wrong way.
8. Reattach to platter and listen. Still listening. Should be nice and quite.

I actually to go and look to be sure one was running because the squeaking was gone.

4 motors done, 68 to go.