Kenmore 3000-media motor?

Hi everyone. I'm new at this, so bare with me. The other day I noticed that the RH in the house was droping, but I can hear the humidifer (Kenmore 3000) on the furnace running from upstairs. So I go down the basement to check things out. I take the media pan out and discover the usual colored water in it and media pad hard as a rock. After cleaning the pan out, replaceing the media pad (I had a spare on hand) and putting every thing back together, I figure that was the problem as to low RH. After a while (hour or so) I notice no improvement in RH. Back down stairs to check it out again. Everything appears to be working, whats up? Well to make a long story short, I finally figure it out that the media wheel is not rotating but the media motor is running.
I went on line at sears.com to order a new Media motor and 2 more replacement media pads. 24hrs later, I go to check the order on their web site to see if everything is going alright--NO media motor!! After 2 to 3 hrs on the phone with with a dozen or more people, I'm told that they do not carry the Media motor (Part# 355859-01) anymore and the manufacture doesn't make it a replacement!

Does anyone know where I can get one, or do I have to throw away an other wise perfectly good whole house humidifer?

Thanks in advance: Ken

 

Have you called Sears to see if you can get it from them? Call the service parts line.

I tried to look on line, came up empty. Looks like you will have to retire it.

 

Thanks for the reply-Jay

I thought that I had covered all bases with Sears on trying to find that Media motor. Today, I decided to call all 'Three' of the "Service Centers" in the Great Lakes State. I found 3 at one store(84 mi.) and 2 at another(60mi.) and 0 at the third store. I ordered one over the phone today and I'll see what happens with that. If that order falls though, I will drive the 60 mi. to the other store and pick one up in person, as she informed me that she was looking at two on the shelf.

Will keep you updated. Ken

 

Update!

I got a New Media Motor sent to me by the Sears 'Flint' Parts store, finally! I just got it today and I'm back up and running. My thanks to those of you that replyed: Ken

 

Glad to see that you are up and running now.

 

I am hoping you could share with me which Great Lake State service centers had the media motor still available. The part number is 355859-01 it is for a Kenmore "3000" central humidifier model 303.938004. I also live in Michigan and when I called the Flint service center 810-732-7117 and was told the humidifier was no longer supported I relayed that a posting on the internet had suggested there may still be a part or two sitting in inventory at a repair center. The Sears person agreed it was possible and supposedly did a nationwide search but didn't turn up the part.

It is possible I am SOL for the part via Sears, but a Google search turned up a 24V motor ($45) and transformer ($26) option at http://www.appliancefactoryparts.com/humidifiers/part-info.php?part=35585901 Has anyone had luck with this route?

My motor is actually okay but a gear is shot, are there other options out there?

Any help is appreciated, thanks.

Don

 

I did some searching and found a company in China that makes a motor that works. You have to be able to do a little easy modification but I just completed it and it's working now. The company is ********. If you go to their site it's very easy to find the motor you need and order it. I used paypal to pay. It does take quite a while to get but they are cheap enough that you can buy two or more. I just put mine in so can't say how long it will last? Maybe you can keep everyone up to date if you do this? The motor you want is TYC50-A1101D. It runs .8 to 1 rpm. Very slow. Make sure it's 110 volt. The cost is $6.90 and shipping is free unless you want to pay for fedex or something. I just went with the free shipping and it took about 4 weeks to get here.
You do have to modify your current sprocket slightly to make this work. The sprocket has to be drilled out to fit the larger shaft of this motor. I used a 17/64 drill. The shaft is not splined like the original motor so I just super glued it on. Push it on all the way. It doesn't like up perfectly but it works. You could file off the sprocket to make it line up and you could drill through it and pin it on the shaft as the new shaft is drilled for this. I didn't and it is holding so far.
The second thing you have to do is take the pig tail off the old motor and splice it onto the new one so it plugs in. The motor only has two wires so take a look at the old motor and see whether the left one is the white one and then splice that white wire to the left wire of the new motor. Splice the black to the other one and use the green one on the screw that holds the motor onto the lexan window. Put it back together and you should be fine. Hope it works for you like it is for me.

 

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