Removing a Polaris 180 Pool Cleaner Turbine

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"ALLYN CHRISTOPHER: Well, the last thing that we're going to do here is, or the next rather, is removal of the turbine inside of it and its bearings. The first thing we're going to do is take off the shroud that holds the turbine; using our automatic drill on the lowest torque setting as not to give undue stress to the bits and pieces corralling our screws. Three little ones right there. And you can see here there's the other twist tie disintegrating in our hands, and then again coming off of this end part of the water management system of the turbine there. Okay now we can see the actual workhorse of it. And now let's remove the protective cam shroud. The axle shroud rather. And more bolts here on the turbine bearings. Now I can see by the color [SOUNDS LIKE] distribution over here that the--this guy's been through some repairs before it's ended up on my workbench for a complete overhaul. All right, it's out. We're left with a frame. A few more things and we're going to start to rebuild this bad boy."