Odkurzacz Gamma II (1959) i niemiecki silnik z Suhl

W tym długim nagraniu – pierwszym w roku 2024 – zapraszam do wspólnego obejrzenia starego polskiego odkurzacza Gamma II z 1959 roku, wyprodukowanego w Rzeszowskiej Fabryce Sprzętu Gospodarskiego. Urządzenia tego typu już kilkakrotnie pojawiały się w poprzednich odcinkach na tym kanale i tutaj także chciałbym wykorzystać okazję, aby porównać ze sobą łącznie sześć modeli z mojej kolekcji, a zwłaszcza trzy z tego samego rocznika 1959. W tych najstarszych modelach Gamma II znajdują się silniki importowane z NRD, wyprodukowane w Fabryce Urządzeń Elektrycznych w Suhl (Elektrogerätewerk Suhl). Także tutaj znajduje się silnik EM 70-30 z Suhl. Rzucimy też krótko okiem na znajdujące się w nim łożysko z Fabryki Łożysk w Turyngii (TKF – Thüringische Kugallagerfabrik), wyprodukowane w położonej obok Suhl miejscowości Zella-Mehlis. Samemu silnikowi i jego przeglądowi będę jednak chciał poświęcić jedno z kolejnych nagrań.

Instrukcja obsługi odkurzacza Gamma II (plik PDF):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HOS3EC0312DR8nQqeay9x7uZSETjCk8v/view?usp=sharing

Rozdziały w nagraniu:

00:00:00 – W tym odcinku

00:01:34 – Wprowadzenie

00:02:47 – Tabliczka znamionowa

00:04:36 – Różne Gamma II i ich silniki

00:08:34 – Rocznik 1959

00:15:17 – Stan odkurzacza

00:20:25 – Wyjmijmy silnik

00:28:34 – Demontaż rączki i test włącznika

00:31:15 – Czyszczenie

00:32:14 – Gniazdko elektryczne suszarki

00:35:59 – Odrdzewiacz

00:39:37 – Nitowanie klamerki

00:44:24 – Montaż odgiętki przewodu i rączki

00:49:54 – Wtyczka

00:56:03 – Tymczasowe podsumowanie

00:57:40 – Silnik elektryczny z Suhl

00:59:25 – Jaki kondensator?

01:01:34 – Szczotki silnika

01:04:12 – Łożysko TKF

01:09:38 – Przewody i test połączeń

01:12:15 – Przygotowanie testu

01:14:28 – Test silnika

01:19:28 – Montaż silnika

01:20:56 – Połączenie przewodów

01:27:40 – Test silnika w obudowie

01:29:58 – Montaż pokryw

01:33:00 – Test kompletnego odkurzacza

01:35:03 – Instrukcja obsługi

01:37:31 – Podsumowanie

Generally, a very well-preserved vacuum cleaner, in the condition I like this device very much. We have vacuum cleaners from March, April and May. Let’s remove the engine cover. And I’ve already freed the engine here. This is the abbreviation EGS – Elektrogerätewerk Suhl. Now I will connect the switch. Okay

Okay, both clasps are holding tight now. Here on the next page there is actually the exact same plug. Capacitor Silesia KPpz 015 Okay, here it will be 6 mm by 5 mm There is a current passage. We now have approximately 63 V, the engine has accelerated noticeably.

We still have two wires from the dryer socket here. And here it connects directly to one wire, the black one going to the motor windings. Yes, now I turned it off on the handle and now I turn on the switch on the vacuum cleaner handle. It’s blowing very nicely here.

And the warm air blows very nicely. Hello, I would like to invite you today to the first New Year’s, still New Year’s, recording. We ended 2023 with a video about the assembly of this Soviet Ural vacuum cleaner from 1978. You can watch this video,

Or you can watch a separate video about the engine in this vacuum cleaner. However, I would like to start the new year 2024 by jointly viewing, testing and disassembling a device approximately 20 years older, the Polish Gamma II vacuum cleaner from 1959.

I have put the Ural vacuum cleaner aside for now so that it does not take up space on the workbench. I only left this Gamma II vacuum cleaner, which we will be dealing with today. I admit that this is one of my favorite types of old

Polish vacuum cleaners or old vacuum cleaners in general. I have several other copies that have already been shown here on this channel, I will show them to you in a moment. I am very happy with this vacuum cleaner.

I have some doubts as to what engine we will find in it, but I won’t talk about it for now , we’ll check it out in a moment. Let’s take a quick look at the nameplate of this vacuum cleaner. I will also try to take a photo and

Display it here. Vacuum cleaner manufactured by Rzeszowska Fabryka Sprzętu Gospodarskiego in Rzeszów. Here is the number of the vacuum cleaner, I don’t know, probably 10355, but it is a bit blurred and it is an A-6 vacuum cleaner, it is also a bit blurred,

I wouldn’t be sure about it, but on other nameplates you can see exactly this marking, these Gamma II vacuum cleaner they were factory marked as type A-6 and later slightly modified later models type A-6b and A-6c, however, there is one interesting story with these A-6c vacuum cleaners, which I may

Tell about another recording someday. Here the rest of the inscriptions are quite blurred. Price PLN 900, power probably 130 W, I don’t remember, I’ll quickly take a look at the nameplate of another vacuum cleaner of this type. Yes, 130 W Vacuum cleaner symbol – I’m not entirely sure what these symbol markings were.

And here is the production date: 03/59, if I’m not mistaken – 59, yes. So March 1959. And there is also a technical inspection stamp here. So we have a nice vacuum cleaner from 1959. I will show you two other examples of Gamma II vacuum cleaners from the same year. I put all the

Gamma II vacuum cleaners that I have in my collection on the workbench, not counting one more disassembled vacuum cleaner lying in parts, which we have not seen here on the channel yet. The remaining vacuum cleaners, apart from today’s one, have already appeared on the channel.

They all work better or worse. I even prepared a little cheat sheet, because I don’t always remember what engine is in which vacuum cleaner , and I wanted to show it to you briefly. Here I have, among others , a Gamma II vacuum cleaner from 1959, it is type A-6

And this vacuum cleaner has an engine imported from the German Democratic Republic, an EM 70-30 engine produced in the plant or in the electrical equipment factory in Suhl. There is an inscription on it: IKA EGS, which is an abbreviation of, firstly, the assembly (union) of Installationen Kabel Apparate, i.e. installations,

Cables, devices. The abbreviation EGS is the name of the Elektrogerätewerk Suhl factory, i.e. the electrical equipment factory in Suhl. These were very popular in the late 1950s engines or, in general, devices from a factory in the GDR installed in Polish devices.

Here I have a second Gamma II vacuum cleaner, also from 1959, and it is also an A-6 vacuum cleaner, and this vacuum cleaner also had and still has an identical EM 70-30 engine, also from the EGS Elektrogerätewerk Suhl factory, i.e. from the electrical equipment factory in Suhl. . Next on the table,

This gray, very classic Gamma II vacuum cleaner comes from 1963, yes, and it is type A-6b. And this vacuum cleaner already has a Polish engine from the plant in Brzeg marked M-6, as you can see here on the engine. This is actually the Polish

Version of the – sorry – motor that we looked at just now, the GDR motor EM 70-30, and this is the BKr 70/30 motor type. Another vacuum cleaner in this collection is the Gamma II from 1964, if I remember correctly. , Yes. And this is the A-6b type of vacuum cleaner

And it also has an engine from Brzeg, which I will show you from the side in the photo: it is a KASB 70/30 type engine. And finally, the last Gamma II vacuum cleaner in my collection – sorry, it doesn’t fit here.

This is the Gamma II vacuum cleaner with a different logo. There is a hair dryer connected here , which we probably also talked about in several previous recordings. This is a Gamma II vacuum cleaner, probably from 1965, although I am not entirely sure because there is no nameplate.

And this vacuum cleaner, for a change, was the only one of all these that was no longer produced in the Rzeszów Household Equipment Factory, but in the Farel factory in Kętrzyn, where the production of these vacuum cleaners was moved there in the mid-1960s

. And this vacuum cleaner has the same engine as in the Gamma II from 1964, i.e. the KASB 70/30 engine from the factory in Brzeg, also marked M-6. I’ll show you a photo of this engine here. Let me put most of these vacuum cleaners aside, for now I will only leave

The Gamma II vacuum cleaners, which come from 1959. And now I only have peers on the table, only vacuum cleaners from the same vintage. As I said, we have here this A-6 vacuum cleaner from – sorry, I’ll look quickly – from April, yes it’s 04 , I think so, from April 1959.

Here we have an A-6 vacuum cleaner from probably May, yes 05, from May 1959, so it’s April, May and here we have today’s hero or today’s heroine of this recording , also an A-6 vacuum cleaner from probably March 1959, so basically

It’s even cool: we have vacuum cleaners from March, April and May 1959. Externally, apart from the most noticeable difference, i.e. the colors in which these vacuum cleaners were painted, they are actually all identical, they have the RFSG logo under the handle – Rzeszów

Equipment Factory Gospodarskiego in Rzeszów. Later, this logo in the early 1960s, I don’t know exactly at the moment, because I don’t have copies from all years of production, but this logo must have disappeared sometime before 1963, because the vacuum cleaner from 1963 no longer has this logo. Probably sometime in 1962, 1961/1962, maybe

1963, this logo was no longer published here. By the way, this is also interesting: here on this logo we also have a register number – this is the number of the trademark entry in the register of the Patent Office. I found this mark of the Rzeszowska Farm Equipment Factory

In the letters of the Patent Office . This symbol DW is still a bit of a mystery to me. And it is probably not DWI, but the Roman numeral one: DW. And this symbol can be found on the products of several Polish factories, several Polish plants

From more or less the same period. I think I also saw it on early engines of the Poznańskie Zakłady Silników Elektryczne and on several other factories or logos of several other factories. This abbreviation DW I I’m not quite sure about it and don’t take it 100% seriously,

What I’m going to say now, but it seems to me that initially several of these factories were entered into the register as factories, I don’t know what it was called exactly, the so-called “small production”. These factories developed only later, I have to investigate it further, but I’m not 100% sure,

Maybe I’ll say something terribly stupid, or it wasn’t an abbreviation of some small manufacturing. This is still something to check. If you know about it, please let me know in the comments, but so far I admit that

I have not found any clear information about what this abbreviation DW I stands for. All I know is, as I said, that it appears on the products of several different Polish factories around the turn of the 1950s and 1960s, then it disappears and has been missing since the first half of the 1960s.

Apart from that, these vacuum cleaners are actually externally identical. There is one more difference that I once noticed: there are no hooks on the handle of this Gamma II vacuum cleaner to attach the shoulder strap visible here. Here, as you can see, there are these hooks on this vacuum cleaner, although

I don’t have the belt itself. Interestingly, this vacuum cleaner does not have them, even though it is actually probably the newest vacuum cleaner of them all, because it is from May, this one is from April, this one is from March. As I said, I don’t know for sure, many

Older models of Gamma, II vacuum cleaners from the beginning of 1959 did not have these hooks, but why are they still not there, even though they are already on the earlier models? I don’t know, maybe they just used some old stock handles. Or maybe this handle broke once and was

Replaced with an older type handle? Well, I don’t know, we already talked about it in the comments. In any case, sometime around 1959, these shoulder strap hooks appeared in Gamma II vacuum cleaners, and this is a typical feature of these A-6 vacuum cleaners and their later

Models, such as A-6b or A-6c. I think that for now I will put aside these older vacuum cleaners from 1959 and we will only focus on today’s hero or heroine. By the way, excuse me for a moment, I’ll take the Gamma II vacuum cleaner from 1963, yes. Here is another

Quite typical difference between the earlier and later models. This is model A-6b, this is the hair dryer mount. I’ve already talked about this in previous recordings. Please note that in these models from 1959, the dryer socket is firstly located in the upper part of the housing and is a bit

Smaller, in these newer models, since the early 1960s, it has been located in the lower part of the air outlet housing and it is already so clearly visible. larger, although hair dryers generally fit both newer and older models. You can use the same model, it is a newer model of hair dryer.

I saw older models of hair dryers in the user manual, which were probably still used with these vacuum cleaners, but unfortunately I do not have an older model of this hair dryer. Well, anyway, I checked it and the newer models,

This dryer, for example, is from 1965, they work with all these vacuum cleaners. Okay, here, by the way, in this Gamma II vacuum cleaner from 1959 I will have to replace the plug, because it is much newer, much later.

I have already hidden all the other Gamma II vacuum cleaners, I left only this one and now let’s take a quick look at its state. Generally speaking, it’s a very nice green color, I haven’t had any vacuum cleaners

Painted this way before. I once saw an Alfa II vacuum cleaner painted like this, but unfortunately I haven’t managed to get it yet. Unfortunately, the symbol or the inscription Gamma II is quite blurred here. I don’t know, it’s very possible that someone,

For example, I don’t know, maybe somewhere stored a vacuum cleaner with the cord coiled in this way, or rather somewhere, maybe in a cover, maybe in a container. , who happened to be rubbing against this inscription. It’s a pity, because it’s always nice when we have devices with such nicely preserved inscriptions.

Here we have the logo of the Rzeszowska Fabryka Sprzętu Gospodarskiego in Rzeszów with the number under which it is entered in the register of trademarks. Here we have the abbreviation DW I, which I have already briefly mentioned. It’s very nice that the Bakelite covers of the air inlet

And the dust bag, as well as the air outlet here with the electrical socket to which you could connect a hair dryer, are not cracked. The foot that allowed the vacuum cleaner to be conveniently placed on the floor has been preserved

Or somewhere on a shelf if it was used as a hair dryer. There are – I already mentioned this – hooks for the shoulder strap, but there is no strap itself. The switch seems to work very nicely. I can see that the hooks and clasps

Holding the dust bag cover are rusty, or rather loose. And what will need to be replaced is the broken bend of the power cable. This is a story that repeats itself in many old devices. We have already replaced this strain relief in several recordings, including

In the Gamma II vacuum cleaner. We recently replaced it in an old GDR drill. I think I still have these strain reliefs in stock, so it shouldn’t be a problem. Besides, there is an original cable here, the green one, and the plug unfortunately is probably later, because the plugs from 1959

Were a bit different, but it is also an old Polish plug, I don’t know, maybe from the late 1960s? I’m not sure about that. In any case, I think I still have a few of these old plug-ins from the 1950s or the turn of the 1950s and 1960s somewhere.

I’ll see, maybe I’ll replace it, but it’s not a tragedy either, because for now this plug can definitely stay here – apart from the fact that it needs to be tightened, because the two halves of the plug are separating a bit. Generally, a very

Well-preserved vacuum cleaner, in the condition I like these devices very much. Whether it works is another question. We’ll have to check it out. I suggest you start disassembling this vacuum cleaner as usual by removing the dust bag here. Even the inside of this cover is clean.

The bag is – I admit – in quite nice condition, it is even clean, shaken – heck, it even looks like it hasn’t been used much. See, there are practically no dust deposits inside. These bags come in various conditions. I once took out such a bag from a Zelmer 01 vacuum cleaner, which

Was completely rotten and full of rusty nails. Once, from one of these Gamma II vacuum cleaners, probably from 1963 (EDIT: from 1959), I took out a bag so moldy that I had to put on a protective mask, it was simply covered with mold. The Zen is really, as for bags from this

Period, in great condition and very clean. Nice smell of these old devices. There is a vacuum cleaner inside, I don’t know if it will be visible in the video, but it is perfectly preserved. Here, in one place, there are some traces of rust, but generally it is not rusty inside. It looks nice.

Oh, I think one of the rivets holding the clasp broke. Whether a rivet or even a screw. The clasps are probably attached with screws, although they were originally riveted. So the riveting here probably fell apart at some point and someone screwed at least one of these clasps with screws. We’ll see, maybe later

We’ll recreate this one hit, or even maybe two, because the second one is probably starting to break out a bit too. Okay, we’ll deal with that later too. Now I think I’ll put this vacuum cleaner upright for convenience and we’ll unscrew this motor housing here. There’s some rust here under these screws.

Okay, I’ve already removed the screws. And now the moment that I like the most, let’s take off… Oh, I missed it here… Let’s take off the engine cover. Okay, what I see right away are broken or disconnected wires,

I don’t know if it’s possible that they broke off now when I took them out? Probably not… These wires go to the dryer socket. It’s possible that when I pulled the cover out, the wires broke off here, but I’m not sure. It seems to me that they were unplugged

And pushed inside, so you will have to connect them, because the dryer socket would not work at the moment. There is no terrible rust here. It’s just a little dusty. Here we have a quite dusty engine inside. The motor, like in other Gamma II vacuum cleaners, is not permanently attached.

It is simply inserted into the housing and is held there by spacers ending with rubber “caps”, such as covers. In fact, this engine is a bit dusty. Here I will probably have to unscrew it from the connection block first, because… otherwise I probably won’t take it out.

This connection cube bothers me a bit here, and it is screwed with quite short wires to quite short wires coming out of this handle and going on one side to the power cord and on the other side to the switch in the handle. What I noticed right away is that

A capacitor was once cut out of this vacuum cleaner. It probably broke down here, someone cut it off and connected this vacuum cleaner or this motor to the vacuum cleaner directly here, bypassing the capacitor that was originally located here. This, of course, will work normally, the capacitor only served to

Eliminate the interference caused by the operation of this engine, while the engine could normally continue to operate without this capacitor without any problems. Okay, I guess I have to unscrew this connection block here first, otherwise I won’t be able to take it all out.

Unscrew these wires here. There’s no point in struggling with it. Oh, I think I’ve already unscrewed two wires here. Yes, very short. I don’t know, maybe there is a short cable from the switch here. Yes, now let’s disconnect these wires going to the engine. I have to disconnect them all anyway.

Then we will look at these connections. The general rule is that one wire from the power cable enters the connection block here. Which one could it be? I don’t think I can guess at this point, I’ll have to look. One wire goes directly into the cube and connects to one wire

Going to the engine or capacitor and then to the engine. The second wire from the power cord is connected in the cube to the wire going to the switch in the handle. Then a second wire comes out of the switch in the handle and connects here in the cube

With the second wire going to the capacitor, if it were here, and if it is not there, then directly to the engine. So you will need to sort out these connections here. I’m definitely turning it all off for now. One screw is quite rusty. Oh, it turns well, it rotates…

Here I still have one wire left, so I disconnect it and here are these two wires. One, two… I can put the connection block aside for now. And I’ve already freed the engine here. Oh, and here’s the cover of the turbine set that sucks in the air.

Maybe I’ll take the cover off too. I removed the cover along with the rubber gasket that cushions the engine. It’s quite dirty. Oh, that’s the way it should be. It’s all quite dusty. We’ll look at the engine in a moment, but first let’s look at the vacuum cleaner.

Okay, there’s not much rust in it, just a few rusty spots, but it’s not bad. Here we have wires coming from the handle, one of them is definitely very short. It will have to be extended. We’ll unscrew this whole handle later. I’ll leave this vacuum cleaner body aside for now

And let’s take a look at this motor. I think you can see the engine nameplate nicely here. And this is the already known engine, photos of which I showed a moment ago when I showed you an overview of various other Gamma II vacuum cleaners. This is an engine manufactured

In the German Democratic Republic at the electrical equipment factory in Suhl. This is the abbreviation EGS – Elektrogeräte Suhl and at the top there is the logo of the plant (EDIT: unification) Installationen, Kabel, Apparate – IKA, i.e. installations, cables, devices.

It was a conglomerate (actually a union) bringing together various factories of electrical equipment. Recently we also saw a drill from Sebnitz. The factory in Sebnitz also belonged to this IKA plant for a long time, and later became part of the Schmalkalden plant, producing Smalcalda equipment.

We have the EM 70-30 engine from the Suhl factory. Identical type to the one we found in two other Gamma II vacuum cleaners from 1959, actually also identical to the first Polish small engines for small vacuum cleaners from the factory in Brzeg, type BKr 70/30 or later KASB 70/30.

I am very happy with this engine . I’ll try to clean it up a bit soon and check if it works. I also think that it would be nice to disassemble the entire engine in this recording, or maybe even in a separate recording, and get to know its structure a little more precisely,

But in this recording we will definitely see if it works. We will take care of the engine soon, clean it and check its operation, but I admit that first I would like to finish disassembling this vacuum cleaner body. Here we only need to unscrew the handle.

It was probably an 8 mm wrench, yes… Here I have already unscrewed these two nuts. More washers. And the same here on the other side. I can take the handle off now. I’ll pull out those wires too.

It seems to me that the cables going from the power supply cable to the connection block were so short because the broken strain relief did not hold them and someone simply pulled the cable and pulled them almost right under the housing. This strain relief will definitely have to be thrown away.

Let’s immediately check the operation of the switch here in the handle. Now it’s disconnected. Now I’ll turn it on. Okay, now I’ll disconnect again. Here you can see that there should be no current transfer now. I will show you – now I think it’s nice to see – how this switch works.

We have already seen this in several other videos about this type of vacuum cleaners. Connected, disconnected… Okay, the wires going to the switch here are in nice condition too. I’ll clean it all up soon. I am now going to clean the vacuum cleaner body,

All these elements, and I will also pre-clean the engine. I have already cleaned all these elements of the vacuum cleaner from dust. I’ll deal with the engine in a moment. Here I have already cleaned this bakelite dust bag cover. The bag itself is,

As I said before, nice and clean. I will remove the vacuum cleaner body for now and I would like to take a look at the engine cover and the hair dryer contacts. I have to question this a bit. Oh, it’s coming out now. It’s even quite clean inside. Look, maybe now

With good lighting it will be quite visible: here are the two contacts of the hair dryer socket. Maybe I will take the dryer again, which we have already looked at, although it is a newer model, not exactly the same vacuum cleaner.

And here you can probably also see from the inside how this dryer is plugged in here. I remember once that one of the other vacuum cleaners was missing these contacts and I replaced them, I took slightly different contacts from an ordinary electrical socket or a regular plug. Even this somehow worked.

I also have the impression that it is quite clean inside. I will only remove the dust here, at least. In fact, I can put it back on right now. I’ve also seen Gamma II vacuum cleaners, probably the one from 1963 that we’ve already seen, where everything was terribly burnt,

As if – I don’t know – it had somehow overheated or burned down somewhere. Everything looks very nice in this vacuum cleaner. I’m still checking the insulation on the wires. Everything seems fine to me. As soon as I connect the wires here, I’ll braid them for a moment.

Now, if I touch the meter here, we should have current passing through these contacts. Yes Sir. Now I will disconnect the wires. And there is no current transfer. Okay, maybe I’ll stick with it a little longer. I will wear out this rubber part.

By the way, I need to buy some agent for preserving such old rubber seals. Okay, and we pull out these wires here, plug this whole part in. I think it went in nicely and later we will connect these wires to the connection block and to the power cables. All right.

I can put it aside for now. I have already wiped the vacuum cleaner body, cleaned it of dust, and wiped the inside with a cloth. We won’t be able to do anything about these missing paint jobs, but I can protect these

Rusty elements a little with a rust remover. You just have to be very careful, because first of all, if you apply too much of it, it can damage the painting, but it certainly also damages the nameplates, i.e. it washes out the black

Paint on the nameplates, so the rust remover cannot get to the nameplates at all. But here, especially inside, it is worth securing the vacuum cleaner a little, especially here, where there are more rusty fragments, on the edges, under the screws. The clasps are also covered with rust.

I will leave it for a few minutes, but then I will wipe it off with paper so as not to damage the painting of this vacuum cleaner. There are also some rusty parts here. Be careful with the nameplate. Same on this side. I’ll wipe it off right here.

And there is quite a lot of rust inside, so I will immediately protect it with this rust remover. Okay… Let the vacuum cleaner rest for a while and then I’ll wipe it thoroughly. I left the vacuum cleaner with this rust remover for about 10-15 minutes and now I can wipe it nicely.

Here in particular there is still a rusty spot, but at least this rust has been neutralized for some time, I hope. By the way, apart from the vacuum cleaner housing itself, I will also clean this cable. It’s not even very dirty, but it’s worth getting a little dirty – but

Some dirt collects here – it’s worth cleaning it. Okay, we’ll talk about the plugin here in a moment, but that’ll be more in a moment. As for the clips on the vacuum cleaner, I will sand them a bit with steel wool.

Okay, it won’t bring them back to their former glory, but at least it helped get rid of those remnants of rust a little bit. Let’s look at this brace now here. One rivet is missing and the other one actually came out very easily, it was also almost broken off here.

I will use this opportunity to clean the buckle a little better. I’ll lubricate it soon. I need to get rid of these leftover rivets. Maybe it will even work with a more solid nail, we’ll see in a moment… Yes, the rivet comes out. I already have one rivet knocked out.

This second rivet is a bit flatter, so it may be more difficult, but I’ll try to knock this rivet out soon. Oh, he got out without any problems. So what? And now I could put some classic rivets here, but unfortunately the ones I have are definitely too thick, so

They won’t fit. I guess I’ll have to use tear-off rivets, but yes, because here I have such tiny rivets, maybe these… No, I think these rivets are too big, it’s 3.2 mm by 6 mm, here I have 2.4 mm by 6 mm , these 2.4 mm rivets are probably a bit too small…

To be honest, I would prefer to use these 3.2 mm rivets. I’ll try it in a moment, oh, even here the rivet can easily pass through these holes. Nice, and the rivet is also good in length.

Turaj, I think you can see it well. Even if the plate next to the buckle is still there, it will be fine. It’s just a matter of slightly widening these holes a little. Maybe I don’t even have to drill them out with a drill, maybe

It’s enough to move them a little with a nail. We’ll see soon. Oh, yes… The rivet doesn’t want to go into this hole, but it goes into the other one without any problems. It’s really just a matter of a few tenths of a millimeter. Maybe this rivet will go in?

Yes, the thread is in. Cool. See, I can’t translate this rivet from this side. Well, let’s try from the inside then. Okay, this is where it came in. Now all I need to do is attach this plate correctly, yes, this way, the plate also fits here. Well, let’s see…

Okay, I think that’s enough. It may not look super beautiful, but it should stick. Now the second thread. I could put the second rivet on this side for a change, so that it would be held nicely on both sides. Okay… I think this holds up really well.

Unfortunately, these are not factory rivets, but the buckle is firmly attached. However, here, on the other hand, the rivets must have broken out at some point, someone put these screws on and, to tell you the truth, I would be happy to leave these screws, because

It is also a part of the history of this device. You just need to tighten these screws a little bit. I’ll grab the other side here with the pliers and tighten it. Okay, both clips are now firmly in place. And I think that we can actually at least put the handle on,

But we still need to add a new piece of wire here. Okay, I’ve already found a box in which I have, by the way, different ones old switches, various types of plugs and I also have a few strain reliefs here. These will definitely be too big here, but

I remember that I installed this type of strain relief for Gamma II and Alfa II vacuum cleaners and they should fit here this way. They may be slightly too big, but in general it should fit here. This bend wasn’t much shorter, maybe by a centimeter. The one that was originally attached here.

Yes, this one is a little longer, but that’s okay. We must first thread this cable through the strain relief. This wire is coming out, okay. Now the second one… Here I have both cables, no problem, the strain relief fits very nicely. It will fit like this, now

We drag these wires here. So yes: green and brown, this wire anyway… Oh, so I don’t get these wires confused. Okay, these wires from the switch are thinner, these wires from the power cord are just thicker. Okay… Maybe, I’m wrong, I’ll mark this wire, wait a minute…

Here I’m marking this one wire coming from the power supply cable, I can recognize the other green wire without any problem, because here it’s brown and blue from the switch. This is where the middle part will be installed. Okay, I can put it aside now. I already have the nuts and washers here.

They were cleaned and lubricated, but they were also slightly rusty. I also put the wires coming from the switch through the hole in the housing. Sorry, the wires should go inside here. Okay, I have to block the strain relief here in this handle housing. I think she came in nicely.

Now I have to use the screws to hit these… This one fell out, I have to use the screws to hit these holes here. Maybe I’ll gently grab the nuts here first. It shouldn’t be appropriate here. Now here. Second screw.

Okay, these screws are holding really tight here, this bend is nicely snapped in here. Now there is no risk that this cable will pull out and pull these small cables inside as well. I’ll just tighten it up here.

Okay, not too hard so as not to tear these screws out here from this Bakelite handle. And that’s cool, we have a cable inserted here through a new strain relief, replacing the old, broken, crumbled one. We have cables here, the thinner ones going to the switch,

These cables going directly to the engine, at least one of them, because it will be done in such a way that one of these cables will be connected to the cable going to the switch via a connection block .

This one wire will go to the engine, this one will go to the engine. And then the switch will turn on the current flow on the wires going to the engine. Okay, so here it is: we basically already have the vacuum cleaner body prepared for mounting the engine.

Now we can work on the engine. Or – sorry – just a moment, let’s look at this plug-in for a moment. I guess I won’t… I showed you… Just a moment, I’ll do it again… I showed you that I have a lot of older types of plugs here,

But to be honest, not too many, I think I only have two more, this one is broken, here is a third plugin. It seems to me that such a plug should have been originally installed in this vacuum cleaner, because I also found one in the other two Gamma II vacuum cleaners.

No, sorry, in one. In the second one I still have to replace the plug. We’ll do that on another occasion. But this is not a very new plug-in, it is probably a little newer than these, but I think there will be no tragedy if I leave this plug-in here.

This one will be useful for some devices where a modern plug is actually installed. Here I would like to make one small addition regarding these plugins. Namely, in the catalog of electrical installation equipment from October 1958, I found various types of plugs, including a plug that was most often found

In old vacuum cleaners, such as Gamma II. Plug in a Bakelite cover, 6 A 250 V. This is the plug actually, you can compare it , it looks identical, but here on the next page there is actually exactly the same plugin as this one,

That I found on this vacuum cleaner. These are also bakelite sheathed plugs 6 A 250 V or 10 A 250 V, this plug is 6 A and again I think it is actually an identical plug to the one drawn here in the catalogue. So I admit that I’m not entirely sure

Whether this plugin was originally installed here. So far, as I said, this is the type of plug I have found most often, but it may also be an actual product from somewhere in the late 1950s. I admit that I have not yet fully figured out this small electrical engineering and electrical installation equipment.

I miss some more detailed catalogs with various plugs and sockets. If you know better, please write in the comments whether you think this may be the original plug installed here in the factory in Rzeszów. This is such a detail, not very important,

But interesting and somehow important for the completeness and originality of the entire vacuum cleaner. I would just like to check this plugin to see if everything is OK. Here I will tighten the screws holding the cable a little tighter. Here it all seems to be holding together…

Oh, I’ll also tighten these screws a little tighter here. Okay, there’s a bit of rust on this buckle, but it should all work. It might also look nicer if there was a smaller bend, but I don’t have such a small one.

Maybe one day I’ll put something on here, but anyway, this cable is held well here. And now we need to tighten this screw firmly. Okay, I think this plug can stay here, it’s also old and actually fits this vacuum cleaner.

Let me show you for a moment one more of these Gamma II vacuum cleaners, also from 1959, which we looked at at the beginning. If I remember correctly, I must have had it here too… Although no, this strain relief also seems to be original here.

No, I don’t think I replaced it here, because it doesn’t look new. Anyway, it’s now very similar to the anti-glove we put on today. Maybe it’s a little thinner and a little shorter. Our strain relief is a bit longer, but its internal diameter is probably the same. This one is also quite wide.

It’s a little bit shorter, let’s say a centimeter, but overall it’s very similar. However, the old Gamma II had an original plug, from what I remember, and I assume that this vacuum cleaner should also have one. It seems to me that I don’t have exactly the same plug,

I have a very, very similar plug of almost the same type, but it is a bit thinner and the “Made in Poland” inscription is made in a straight line here , not in an arc. And this is probably

A 10 A plug, and here with this vacuum cleaner there is 6 A 250 V, here is 10 A 250 V Okay, anyway, I’ll leave the plug here as it is. And let’s take a look – just a moment – at this second Gamma II vacuum cleaner from 1959.

Here, as I already said, the plugin is not original. By the way, there is a nice, large strain relief at the plug, but the strain relief is missing here. I don’t know, maybe the strain relief was even taken from here and put on the plug.

I’ll have to do it here, and we’ll definitely do it in one of the next videos, although this vacuum cleaner has already been opened. I will simply move this strain relief here, and here I will put one of these plugs, for example, which will be more suitable for this vacuum cleaner,

But this is a topic, as I said, for the next recording. So, to sum up: we have already cleaned the vacuum cleaner body and slightly protected it with a rust remover. We checked that the switch here works. We installed a new strain relief on this cable, and it holds well here.

We have already brought out the cables here, to which – in fact – even now we could connect the connection cube , and these cables are long enough that the connection cube can be tilted here and the engine can be conveniently inserted inside, but maybe we can do it by connecting the engine.

Here, on one clasp, I tightened the screws that someone once replaced the broken rivets. Incidentally, these rivets must have been extremely bad in this case, because I haven’t experienced this in any other place. Gamma II vacuum cleaners to remove these rivets. Or someone treated the clothespins very carelessly.

However, here, on the second clip, I added two new blind rivets, unfortunately not the same ones as the factory ones, they are – I don’t know what it’s called professionally – stuck on one side,

But it’s definitely held together solidly, and after assembling the vacuum cleaner it’s practically these rivets are not visible here. Well, now I can put aside the entire vacuum cleaner body, ready for assembly, and we will focus a little more on testing this engine,

This East German EM 70-30 type engine from the Suhl electrical equipment factory. The most important thing is, of course, to check whether the engine works, because this will determine whether we will be able to start the vacuum cleaner at the end of this recording. I do not know that yet.

For now, the engine has only been slightly cleaned of dust. Now let’s finally take a look at this cool motor that we took out of this Gamma II vacuum cleaner from 1959. Let me remind you once again: this is an East German East German engine, produced by an electrical equipment factory in Suhl.

The abbreviation EGS stands for Elektrogerätewerk Suhl, and the IKA symbol at the top in the triangle stands for the name of the conglomerate (unification) Installation or Installationen – I don’t remember exactly – Kabel, Apparate, i.e. installations, cables, apparatus. It was a conglomerate (unification) bringing together various East German electrical equipment factories.

This is an EM 70-30 motor, identical to the same two motors found in the other two Gamma II vacuum cleaners we looked at earlier. And this is the engine, its serial number and date are stamped here, I think it is 2/59, i.e. from February 1959.

This entire vacuum cleaner, if I remember correctly, is from March, yes, 03/59, i.e. the engine was installed in this vacuum cleaner shortly after it was delivered from the factory to Poland. Here is 14000 rpm, frequency 50 Hz, alternating current, direct current, 220 V and 90 W power of this motor.

I don’t see any more data here. I managed to clean the engine of some dust. As I told you, there is no anti-interference capacitor attached here at all, which is generally not necessary for the operation of this motor, it simply eliminates the interference caused by the sparking of the brushes on the commutator.

Out of curiosity – I’ll show it to you in a moment – I looked into one of the other Gamma II vacuum cleaners from 1959 to see what kind of capacitor was installed there. Here I opened the cover of the Gamma II vacuum cleaner from 1959, the one we looked at earlier.

And maybe I’ll show it to you in a photo: here is a Silesia KPpz-015 capacitor mounted, I don’t know, I don’t know. I did a quick search on the Internet. Somewhere in one of the offers I found a few pieces

Of such Silesia KPpz-015 capacitors and here the parameters of the capacitor are probably exactly the same . So I think that I will order one or two pieces, or maybe even a few pieces of such capacitors, and we will install them in this engine during the next recording. This is a five-terminal capacitor.

Here, two wires come out from this side and go to the motor windings. There are three wires coming out here – two connect to the power cord or one to the power cord and one to the wire coming from the switch.

And this middle green wire is simply screwed here to the screw on the motor housing. Of course, this is not the case here at the moment. So I’m ordering Silesia capacitors and we’ll install the capacitor here during another recording. We can leave it alone for now.

Either way, this vacuum cleaner will work without any problems. So a capacitor is not necessary here, but what is definitely necessary are the brushes that touch the commutator and we will soon check their condition. Okay… This brush is also ok, they are a little worn.

I admit that I don’t remember what size these brushes are. I don’t know, 4 mm by 5 mm, by the looks of it. I don’t remember, although I certainly changed them in one of the Gamma II vacuum cleaners some time ago. Here I have a lot of this type of tiny brushes, although

I see that of the smallest ones I only have this tip left. approximately the same size. I will have to buy these brushes. I remember that I bought these brushes suitable for Gamma vacuum cleaners as brushes for a sewing machine, I think.

I’ll bring a caliper soon and, just in case, we’ll measure them again, although I’m sure that I gave the dimensions of these brushes in these previous recordings about other Gamma II vacuum cleaners from 1959 with these engines,

And probably also these engines from the factory in Brzeg, these Polish BKr engines or KASB 70/30 modeled on this engine probably had brushes of the same dimensions. I’d have to check it because I don’t remember. Let’s just check the dimensions of these brushes with a caliper. Okay, the ruler is zeroed.

In the wider place 5.86, so it will be 6 mm 5.90 mm Okay, here it will be 6 mm by 5 mm – 4.94 shows me here, so the brush is 6 mm by 5 mm, this one is a centimeter long.

Originally, I think these brushes were probably about – I don’t know – one and a half centimeters long. So it’s a bit old here. Okay… We can put the brushes back. Okay, and let’s screw it on… The second brush too. Out of curiosity, let’s take a look at this bearing,

Although I wouldn’t like to disassemble the entire engine today. I think I will make a separate recording about this, combined with the installation of the capacitor for this engine, but you can always look into the bearing, at least this one, because it is actually on top. This placenta is terribly tiny.

Here you can see some inscriptions on this bearing. I will also take a photo, but I don’t know if I will be able to show it to you nicely. There is an inscription TKF here – I assume that KF means Kugellagerfabrik in German,

I.e. bearing factory, but I don’t know what T means, I will have to check it. I don’t see any number here, but there is another inscription ELK, EL 5 maybe… EL 5, it’s probably… EL 5 Here I immediately wanted to make a small addition regarding these bearings

Found in the Gamma II vacuum cleaner engine. I looked for a little information about them and, as I expected, the abbreviation TKF stands for Thüringer Kugellagerfabrik, i.e. the rolling bearing factory in Thuringia. This is a factory that was established after World War II, approximately in 1947-48,

From two liquidated pre-war companies. One was the H. Weihrauch company, which produced weapons and bicycle parts. And the second one was the K. Reich company, which produced bicycle parts and some metal products, including bearings. And this TKF company was founded and still exists today in the town of Zella-Mehlis in Thuringia.

Interestingly, Zella-Mehlis is a town neighboring Suhl, where the entire engine from the Gamma II vacuum cleaner was created. Moreover, all these companies, not only TKF, still exist after various transformations. TKF in Zella-Mehlis. The Weihrauch company, which to this day produces mainly sports weapons, some air guns, and flash guns,

Moved west from the areas occupied by the Red Army in 1948 and continued its work in Mellrichstadt in Bavaria. It still exists there today. And exactly the same as the Reich company, which produced and still produces various drive components and steering systems and some specialized bearings.

This company also moved to Mellrichstadt in Bavaria and still exists there today. I think that it will be worth saying more about the history of this TKF factory, i.e. Thüringer Kugellagerfabrik, when dismantling this engine. And I even thought that we already have

A lot of different interesting bearings taken out of old vacuum cleaners or vacuum cleaner motors. This is a DKF bearing, i.e. Deutsche Kugellagerfabrik, found in the Soviet Czajka vacuum cleaner engine. This is a bearing from the fourth state bearing factory in Samara, Soviet.

Here we have Bulgarian bearings taken from one of the Polish engines in one of the previous recordings. Here I have classic Polish old FŁT bearings from the Rolling Bearing Factory. And I think that each factory has an interesting story. It will probably be worth making a separate recording only about these old bearings

Taken from various vacuum cleaner motors. And let me just tell you that this inscription I also found on the bearing taken from this engine with Suhl, EL 5 – I checked, this is the bearing size, which corresponds to a bearing measuring 5 mm by 16 mm by 5 mm, i.e.

5 mm internal diameter of the bearing or the diameter of this rotor tip, 16 mm external diameter of the bearing – tiny bearing, probably the smallest of all the ones I have here and 5 mm is the – I don’t know – thickness, height or width of the bearing.

When we disassemble the engine, I will of course try to check all these dimensions. And I still don’t know what bearing is on the turbine side of this engine, we will have to see it when disassembling this engine, but as I said, this is a topic for a separate recording.

Now I’ll get some grease and lubricate this bearing at the same time. And now I can put this mount back on here. and the entire strut above here. In a longer video, I will also try to disassemble the entire intake assembly,

Remove all the turbines from the engine and look at the bearing located on the turbine side. Here I see that someone extended the wires coming from the motor windings to which the capacitor wires were connected. This is probably quite old insulating tape, but I have the impression

That it holds quite solidly here. At first I wanted to replace it with a new one, but I thought that it doesn’t make sense, because we will connect the capacitor here anyway, then I will unwind the tape, I will simply unplug the extended wires, because they will no longer be needed,

And we will connect the wires coming from the capacitor. So it can stay this way for now. Oh, there’s a broken wire here, someone put a cover over it, but I’ll still insulate it properly. It’s probably some old heat shrink, I think, that just slipped off here.

I even have some different heat shrinks here. Maybe a little piece like this would be useful here. I guess so… I think it’s time for that now… Or maybe I’ll just slide the cover on top, great… Let’s check the current flow on these wires. Maybe I’ll do it this way…

There is a current passage… Just in case, I check whether there is no current passing to the housing somewhere. I’ll take another brush out of the motor just in case. We’ll see, now there should be no current transfer without the brush. Once again…

No connection. I put the brush back in. to the engine. Let’s check now… There is a current passage. Okay… Now I’m going to take the temporary power cable and connect it here like we’ve done with many other engines.

And for a moment we will test the operation of this engine, if it works at all, but at reduced voltage. Here the turbine is clean, I also wiped it with a brush when cleaning this engine. The turbine shouldn’t rub against anything here. Maybe I’ll put this engine on this rubber pad.

As in every recording, I repeat it once again here: you cannot simply connect such loose motors to a 230 V socket, because the motor may fall over, fly to the side, or hit us. It is necessary to connect the engine through a voltage regulator.

You can also try it even with a regular car rectifier, we can try it now. It seems to me that the tiny motors that I once tried from Gamma II vacuum cleaners, even on 12V DC, are already starting, anyway, I have an old transformer here, maybe we will try it soon,

Because this motor will definitely run on 24V, at least that’s what I think. it should be working now. But I’ll connect it to my voltage regulator. I have voltage here in the strip. Safety glasses are a must. Here, I still wear such a glove just in case,

Although in general you should avoid touching such engines. This engine has a Bakelite casing here, so I can gently hold it behind it. The voltage on the regulator is now reduced to practically zero. I’ll turn the engine on to the strip. I will now turn on the power and increase the voltage.

The engine starts very nicely and turns really quietly. I don’t know, I think you can see here – maybe I’ll turn it this way… Now you can definitely see the rotor moving here. The engine runs really quietly. Sometimes it happens that in such old engines there is a grating, grinding and noise somewhere.

The engine runs quietly. You can barely see it, actually I can’t see it from this side, I don’t know, maybe from the other side you can see sparks on the brushes. I don’t know what voltage the engine is running at now, several dozen volts. We can check it.

I will even set the meter to 200 V AC, because we will definitely not exceed that. Maybe I’ll put a meter here and you’ll see it better than I can. And let’s see here on the connection cube… How much does it show? 52V at the moment.

Yes, I can increase the voltage here on the regulator a little bit, not much. 60 V We now have approximately 63 V, the engine has accelerated noticeably. Now we reach 70 V. But I will not raise the voltage any higher. I go back to about 50V, even below that.

Now, at about 40 V, this engine runs quietly and nicely. There’s no, I don’t know, smell of burning brushes somewhere here. You don’t feel like the engine is overheating anywhere. Anyway, as soon as I turn it off, I will check if it has not warmed up somewhere,

But of course I will not do it when the engine is connected. Okay, generally for such an old engine – remember from 1959 – I think it runs quite nicely even without any disassembly, special cleaning and reassembly. We didn’t even check the condition of the bearing on the turbine side,

We just lubricated the smaller bearing on the commutator side a little. Okay, I turned off the engine. I think I can disconnect everything now. So what? And we will install the engine in the vacuum cleaner. And as I said, since this recording is already getting quite long,

In a separate recording I will take out the engine again and try to disassemble it to get to know the structure of this engine a little better and then we will also install a matching capacitor.

I have already disconnected the regulator and am putting it aside for now, but I am not hiding it yet, because we will need it to test the engine after installing it in the vacuum cleaner. Here I have the cable disconnected. I can disconnect the wires.

I think we can now put this motor back in the vacuum cleaner. I will definitely come back to it, as I said. We will take out the engine, maybe even right away in the next recording, we will put this capacitor here, maybe I will clean it a bit.

And of course I would also like to disassemble this engine, maybe even take out the rotor, measure the size of both bearings, just to get to know its design, but in general I am quite satisfied with the operation of this old GDR engine from the factory in Suhl from 1959.

I don’t like the condition of the rubber in which the motor is mounted, which cushions it and isolates it from the vacuum cleaner housing. I’ll try to rub it a little more, although it probably won’t help much. Okay, I cleaned the rubber a bit, it’s a bit better.

By the way, I’ll ask, I don’t know, maybe you know some cool, effective products for maintaining such various rubber elements. If so, please write it in the comments, I will definitely find it very useful. Okay, and now like this: here I can put the rubber inside the vacuum cleaner

In which the motor will be mounted. I can also put in the engine itself, being careful not to let the turbine cover fall off. Actually, I could even glue it with some tape, but I will still have to remove the engine.

Okay, the engine even started nicely here. Now I will place this vacuum cleaner vertically. I hope it will be visible now. Here I also have to put rubber tips on these clips, which also hold, cushion and isolate the engine from the vacuum cleaner body. Well, there’s still one left here…

And apart from that, this engine here is not bolted in any way, it just sits tight. Here I have all the wires coming from the switch and the power cord. We will also have to remember about the wires going to the hair dryer socket. Here we have the wires going to the engine.

Let’s first connect the wires here, maybe coming from the power cord. Then we will do this: this one green wire will come in here. And this green wire can be connected, for example, to the blue wire going to the switch. We’ll put this wire here on the other side. All right.

This is where the second wire from the switch will come out. Maybe we’ll put it here on the other side of the connection block. And this wire will connect to one of the wires going to the engine, let’s say here opposite it. Okay, and here we have one more wire

From the power cord. I’m putting it in here next to our wire. And this wire will connect – oh, this is how I’ll do it here – to the other wire going to the engine. At this point, we have the connection cube here, but we still have two wires from the dryer socket.

The point is that when we turn on this vacuum cleaner, the vacuum cleaner’s engine will start working, so that the wires going to the dryer socket are also powered, because if they are powered directly from the wires coming from the power cord,

Then each time we connect this vacuum cleaner to the socket, that the dryer will start heating here – if it is turned on, of course. And if the engine is not running, the dryer will simply burn out and the entire device may catch fire, or at least its elements may melt.

Therefore, the dryer should only be turned on when the engine is running and when there is a flow of air coming out of the engine. Therefore, we need to connect one of the dryer wires here to this wire coming from the switch and at the same time supplying power

To one of the wires going to the engine, and we can connect the other dryer wire directly here to this power wire. I’ll just put this vacuum cleaner down because it’s more convenient for me to do it lying down at the moment.

So, in general, I will connect the wires going to the dryer socket to exactly the same sockets from which the wires going to the engine come out. I’ll loosen the screws a little here. I’ll put one of these wires in and maybe even splice them together a little bit.

I’ll connect these wires together here. Okay, the wires are holding well here and I also connect this second wire here to this socket from which the second wire going to the engine comes out. I could also put common crimp terminals on these wires and just crimp them together,

Or even solder them together and, after soldering, insert them here into the connection block. Oh, now both wires fit in nicely. And I think the wires are holding tight here. We already have the connections ready. It looks quite chaotic, so let’s check again if everything is connected correctly.

Here we have a power cord with two wires coming out of it: the brown one and the green one. This green wire enters the connection cube here, it connects in the cube with the navy blue wire going to the switch in the handle.

Then this dark red wire comes out of the switch in the handle and this wire – it’s a bit inconspicuous – here it enters the connection block and connects to this black wire going to the motor windings

And at the same time it also connects to this yellow wire going to one of the motor windings. from the hair dryer contacts. This is where the second wire from the power cable enters – the brown one, which I marked with insulating tape, although it is difficult to confuse them

Because they are much thicker than the wires going to the switch. This cable enters the connection block and here it connects directly to one wire, the black one, going to the motor windings

, and at the same time it also connects to the black wire going to the second contact in the dryer socket. It seems to me that all this should be connected correctly and if nothing comes out here, it shouldn’t cause any short circuit anywhere. We can place the vacuum cleaner vertically again.

Here we can do another small test. What I’m touching here is the wires going to the switch. At the moment I don’t think I have any electricity because it’s turned off. And now I’m going to turn it on…ó There is a current passing through. I turn it off, it’s gone.

I turn it on, there is a current flow. I turn it off – there is no. I think that we can now test-connect this vacuum cleaner to the power supply as it stands now.

Just like this: here, the plug that is next to the vacuum cleaner has no pin, no hole for the grounding pin. Anyway, it doesn’t matter, because there is no protective conductor or grounding conductor here anyway.

However, here in the regulator I have a grounding pin, so I have to do it a little differently. I will also connect a splitter to the regulator, a strip without these grounding pins, and here I can connect our vacuum cleaner. However, I connect the voltage regulator to a normal power strip.

The voltage is still off. I put on safety glasses and reduce the voltage on the regulator. And now I turn on the power and increase the voltage. Okay, the engine runs very nicely. Oh, I haven’t checked the switch here yet. Wait a minute, I’ll turn it on again…

Yes, now I’ve turned it off on the handle and now I’m turning on the switch on the vacuum cleaner’s handle… There’s a bit of minimal sparking on the brushes, I just noticed it now, but it’s normal when such an engine is running. Okay…

Looks like it’s all working. I can disconnect the wires here. And in a moment we can put the vacuum cleaner cover on. Cool, I think this trial went well. I’m disconnecting everything here. This will be useful to us because we will be testing an already assembled vacuum cleaner,

So I’m leaving this power strip for now. But what? Well, here we can put on this engine cover. In fact, you could even wrap this connection cube with some pressboard paper. It is true that it was probably not done this way at the factory,

But for now the connection cube here, in the place where the capacitor will be, can easily sit this way. I’m putting the engine cover on now. Here I have to fit the cover a little so that the holes line up with the screw holes. I have screws and washers here.

I cleaned them with a bag, because they are quite rusty, but I kept them in a rust remover for a while. I hope that at least they won’t rust further, and that these screws will somehow screw in here. I don’t know, I don’t think I forgot anything. First screw.

And maybe we will also test this hair dryer soon. We will see if the socket is connected correctly and if the dryer will work. Well, one more, last screw. Okay, now one more important thing – put in the dust bag.

I think that if someone wanted, an additional paper bag could also be attached here. Or, for example, line it with some cotton wool or an old surgical or anti-dust mask as an additional bag to slightly improve the filtering properties of this vacuum cleaner.

And now we close the clothespins. I hope our new rivets won’t break. No, it holds quite well. This vacuum cleaner even looks really nice. I can put it on the counter like this. We’ll do another test of it soon. I didn’t have any accessories for this vacuum cleaner.

I have already shown you the hose and nozzles for Gamma II vacuum cleaners several times. Actually, I think the accessories I have are identical to those for Alfa or Alfa II vacuum cleaners. I don’t have a complete Gamma II vacuum cleaner with accessories.

However, in a moment I will show you the user manual for this vacuum cleaner, which has already appeared in other videos. But let’s turn on the vacuum cleaner and try it out. I connect this power strip to the voltage regulator, and I connect the regulator to a normal power strip.

I reduce the voltage, turn on the power… Now the vacuum cleaner runs on a voltage more or less close to 220 V. I have already turned up the voltage regulator almost to the end of the scale. It blows very nicely here . I think you can hear how nice this vacuum cleaner sucks.

And the vacuum cleaner works really quietly. I don’t even think I have to shout that much to be heard. This is truly one of the quieter vacuum cleaners I have tried here in the workshop. Okay, I’ll turn off the vacuum cleaner. Let’s try it, I have a hair dryer here.

And the warm air blows very nicely. You could easily use this dryer with this vacuum cleaner. Let me quickly show you the user manual for this vacuum cleaner, this manual has already appeared in other recordings on this channel.

If you are interested, I have a scanned manual, it is placed on a network drive, and I will put a link to this PDF file with a scan of this manual in the description of this recording. I think it’s more or less an instruction from the late 1950s,

From 1959 or 1960, maybe 1961. Unfortunately, there is no date on it, but the instructions show exactly this type of vacuum cleaner. Here are all the accessories, nozzles, hose, sprayer. There is a hair dryer here, it will be shown in a little more detail in another illustration.

Here are ways to use the vacuum cleaner, including carrying it on your shoulder with a strap, which is missing here. I have it with another vacuum cleaner. Dusting off some lampshades here. Undoubtedly, the advantage of this vacuum cleaner was its low weight.

Here the vacuum cleaner is placed on the floor, here also on the belt while vacuuming some furniture. Here is a vacuum cleaner used to vacuum a car. Oh, and here are the accessories: there is a paint sprayer and there is a dryer, which, in the photo you can see,

Is another old model of the dryer, but a bit different from the one I have here. Unfortunately, I don’t have such a dryer. I have a slightly similar dryer for the Syrenka vacuum cleaner, but from what I remember, that dryer does not fit the Gamma II vacuum cleaner.

Maybe one day I will be able to get an older model of dryers from the late 1950s or the turn of the 1950s and 1960s. Here, one of the photos shows the painting of a motorcycle, because it was possible to connect a paint sprayer to this vacuum cleaner.

And here is one of my favorite photos, i.e. using this vacuum cleaner as a hair dryer with an old type hair dryer, slightly different than the hair dryer we used today. And here is emptying the dust bag. There are also some technical data,

Warranty service and so on. As I said, if you are interested in this manual, you will find a link to it in the description of this video. I hope you find it useful. And that’s probably all I need to know about this vacuum cleaner for today.

I don’t want to make this recording too long, because I think it will be quite extensive, as usual, but of course I would like to thank you very much for this first review of the old device in 2024 – I think it’s quite neat and cool , a quietly operating

Old Polish Gamma II vacuum cleaner from 1959 with an original engine imported from the GDR, East Germany, manufactured in the electrical equipment factory in Suhl. We will come back to this engine, as I told you. And I think, I hope, that we will also come back to these Gamma II vacuum cleaners,

Although I already have several of them, as I showed you, but I still do not have several varieties, several models of this vacuum cleaner and I would really like to get them and look at them. Maybe this will be done in the coming months. And I’m sure I’ll have

Some other cool, old, interesting devices to show you in the coming weeks and months. And I think I’ve said it before, I hope you don’t run out of patience to visit this channel at least from time to time this year,

Because I certainly won’t run out of patience to play with these old devices and I’m already looking forward to watching a few things, which are lying here in my workshop in boxes. I haven’t told you about all of them yet, some of them will be surprises.

So see you soon, thanks for today and hello!