A possible alternative:  have the motor rebuilt by an auto electric repair
shop. You get back an auto repair motor newly cleaned with new bearings,
turned commutator, new brushes. Should last a while!

John

On Jan 23, 2017 18:05, "Gene P" <olgreywoof@gmail.com> wrote:

> Well now that's a good bit to know.  Stuff has been written here in the
> past about poor quality/noisiness of available replacement blowers.
> Seems there might be some supply of original and maybe lesser-used
> blowers from people removing them to use the space.
>
> Thanks
>
> On 1/23/2017 2:15 PM, Alistair Bell wrote:
>
>> The same
>>
>
> On Jan 23, 2017, at 11:55 AM, Gene P <olgreywoof@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
> So I add this question ... are the (front and rear) blowers the same?
>