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Comment on Home Security: now with streaming video by False Alarms, Fire Trucks, and Customer Service Failures « Missing Link

False Alarms, Fire Trucks, and Customer Service Failures « Missing Link — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:31:16 +0000

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False Alarms, Fire Trucks, and Customer Service Failures « Missing Link — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:33:57 +0000

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Comment on Please remove and clean Roomba’s Brushes by vic7767

vic7767 — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 03:06:47 +0000

Hi John, thanks for the positive posts about my ball bearing modified Cleaning Head Modules. Come visir my site for other mods you might like.

Vic

Comment on Please remove and clean Roomba’s Brushes by Raye

Raye — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:40:13 +0000

Thanks John, I’m gonna take it apart and try to clean it all again and if that don’t work I’ll try the modified CHM. I don’t even have pets so there was no hair in there but there was dust so I’ll try again

Comment on Please remove and clean Roomba’s Brushes by john

john — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:31:47 +0000

Check also the bearings on the brushes to see if any hair or dirt is caught in those – that will also trigger this alert (and will usually also cause your roomba to make a clicking type noise while it does work). To do that – take the bearings off (the small yellow piece attached to one end of the brush) and clean out any hair that got caught in them. If that still doesn’t work you might want to consider getting a new CHM that has been bearing modified, which will be less work in the long run. I got my bearing modified CHM from Vic (link is in an update in the post) and an AeroVac bin from iRobot and my roomba is working better now than he ever did before. The Aerovac bin makes a huge difference – prior to getting that my roomba struggled with the fur my dog left everywhere, now it has no problem handling it and our floors stay clean.

Comment on Please remove and clean Roomba’s Brushes by Raye

Raye — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:23:19 +0000

I took it apart down to the gear box and cleaned it, put it back together and I’m still getting the same irritating message. Should I maybe repeat the process or perhaps it’s something else altogether?

Comment on Please remove and clean Roomba’s Brushes by kevin

kevin — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 16:43:27 +0000

After fighting roomba all day and taking apart everything, I found your post and after a 15 min clean of the gears, roomba is back to cleaning like the champion she is. The dog is still terrified of her though. Thanks for the info, huge help!

Comment on Please remove and clean Roomba’s Brushes by mad

mad — Sun, 02 May 2010 18:23:17 +0000

We came back from a week’s vacation to find Roomba, perhaps dried out from lack of grease (see previous post), making a grinding noise and back to chronic “please remove and clean Roomba’s brushes”. The long-hair wasn’t happy with the idea of my stinky white lithium grease being potentially ingested by the short-hairs, so we tried olive oil. That seems insufficiently viscous to stay where it’s put. The noise still doesn’t sound right. I’m wondering where to get a replacement for the translucent Ptfe washer that I lost in my first gearbox service, having now, after the third gearbox disassembly, finally understood what it was there for and why there were only two of them, one for each roller’s gear.

Comment on Please remove and clean Roomba’s Brushes by john

john — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:56:55 +0000

Hi Nick:

I only greased the teeth of the white gears and my Roomba has been behaving happily since.

Comment on Please remove and clean Roomba’s Brushes by Nick

Nick — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:53:10 +0000

What parts do I need to grease in the Cleaning Head Module? Do I grease only the teeth of the white gears? Do I only grease the very middle of the white gears that pivot on the metal parts that turns the gears? Or do I need to grease both? Thanks!