I have a few duff vacuum cleaners, two of them I've been trying to make one decent one out of, but never completed, and another one which is too far gone to do anything with, anyhoo, I have a lot of vacuum spares knocking about. I'm not too sparkling on electronics, but I remember years ago that our old hoover used to go on 'blow' instead of suck at the flick of a switch, someone told me that if you wire a motor in the opposite way, IE connect live to neutral and netral to live, it spins in the opposite direction, although I've not tried it. My idea is to make a minature blowing machine of some kind, for various jobs and just for pissing about with, so if I reverse the connections around in the motor, will it do as I want and start blowing or will it just blow up? - I'm not too bothered if it does the latter as I've got quite a few, also, do I need to make this connection at the motor end or can I just reverse the wires in the plug?
Or is it a non starter?
TIA