Saved the day
Well I tried to stay out of my wife’s way for most of the day so she could get her cleaning done. When I got home this evening, ready to eat supper, I found her sitting on the kitchen floor, trying to take the vacuum cleaner apart. It seems that the beater bar/brush unit misteriously quit working and no matter how many times she hit the reset button it wouldn’t restart. So she was trying to find out why. She couldn’t find any screws to loosen, and she was quite frustrated. Well, I sat down on the floor with her and after a few minutes I figured out how to take that thing apart and we determined what the problem was – the motor to the brush/beater bar was clogged with dirt and dust from over the years. So we cleaned it up and put it back together, and now it runs like a champ! So I am the hero of the day!