• Fisher Price Aquarium Cradle Swing Motor Not Working

How to fix a broken baby swing. Fixing a Fisher price baby swing that stopped swinging.

Feb 27, 2015. I saw another baby swing repair thread here so I thought I'd post as well. It's an older Fisher-Price My Little Lamb™ Cradle 'n Swing that runs on four.

If your kids are like ours, they love being in the swing. Swings are expensive and can create some heartache for the household if the swing doesn't work.

In this video I show you how to repair a broken Snug-a-Bunny swing with a bad motor. This is a very easy repair and may be a way to get yourself a cheap swing if on a tight budget. You will need to purchase an Air-Wick or Glade automatic air freshener and scavenge the motor from it. This motor was $6.29 after tax and can be installed with basic household tools.

Do you have a with a dead motor? Do you want to spend $9 instead of $50+ dollars to repair it? Even better, do you have a working (or Freshmatic Express) air freshener laying around? If you answered yes to those questions, then read up, cause I'll tell you how to replace the main motor in your swing with the motor from the air freshener. Cause they are THE SAME!

Besides the above items you will need: 1x Small flathead screwdriver 1x Small Phillips screwdriver 1x Medium Phillips screwdriver 1x Soldering gun + solder 1x Wire strippers/cutter Some electrical tape, or if you wanna be fancy, heat shrink tubing. Step 1: Rip Apart Your Air Freshener. Did you run out and buy the air freshener or have one laying around? Sweet, you are good to go. Open it up, I used an old one laying around, so I pulled out the batteries and can, if it's new, you may be able to skip this step.

Get a small flathead screwdriver and remove the 2 triangular screws in. Using a Phillips, remove the 3 screws in. The 2 large gears slide off their posts easily, using a flathead screwdriver, pry the small gear off the shaft of the motor. Remove the 2 screws in and unclip the power cord to the motor seen in. Snip off the plastic clip and that's it! This motor will be replacing the dead one in your swing. Pitch all the leftover parts of the air freshener, or use it for crafts, whatever floats your boat.

The AA batteries should be fine, AND you can still use the can of freshener manually! Step 2: Dismantle Your Swing 1/2. Ok, now we need to remove the dead motor from our swing. Pull the batteries or unplug the swing. Keep your infant happy in some way shape or form, luckily for me, my daughter enjoys the bouncy seat almost as much as the swing. With your Phillips, remove the screw holding the cradle in place, and depress the tab to slide it off the post. Depress these 2 tabs, and slide the legs off, you can now take the top to a table to continue.

(Note: What you are holding now is what you have to buy for $50 to 'repair' it from Fisher Price.) 3. Remove 10 screws from the bottom of the unit, shows 5, the other 5 are mirrored on the opposite side. Note which screws go where, each pair is specific to it's location. Remove these 4 screws under the battery cover,. Now gently pry on the seam starting from the rear and working forward.

The front tab is a little tricky, but pull straight up to get it off. Be careful as the wiring to the control panel is only a few inches, and if you pull too hard it can come up suddenly and damage the wires.

Once the lid is off, flip it over and depress the 2 tabs in. This will free up the control panel. Tilt the control panel through the opening and put the lid aside.

Step 3: Dismantle Your Swing 2/2. Still with me? This is worth saving $40 right? Ok, now into the guts! Remove the 2 screws holding on the inner lid of the swing,.

Lift lid off the spring and put it aside. Remove the 2 screws holding the motor box in,. Slide motor box up, it's a tight fit, but be gentle as there is a ton of wiring that can get caught on it. Open the box by removing the 3 screws in. Lift the lid straight up. When re-assembling, pay attention to the small peg, and large hole on these arms,. These will meet with the small hole and large peg on the bottom half,.

The motor, lifts right out, it's got some grease on the gears, so watch out. Pry the screw gear off the shaft with a flathead, and clip the wires off. Done with dis-assembly! Just gotta transfer a small capacitor and diode from the old motor to the new one.

Step 4: Swapping Motor Bits. So close, I can almost taste it! A comparison of the 2 motors. Left with the white cap is from the swing, right with the green is from the air freshener. De-solder the capacitor, diode and wires from the old motor.

Attach them to the new motor as shown,. Current direction isn't important, but the cap is soldered to the side of the motor in addition to the pins. Re-wire the motor into the swing, and seal with electrical tape or heat shrink tubing. Finally, put everything back together! Go back to the previous steps and do everything again. I got the air wick, set to disassembling the swing, and found just before I took out the motor that it was the metal spring piece that attaches to the motor and swings the arm that was broken.

It had snapped completely off. I think hand pushing the swing probably put strain on that part and eventually snapped it. I found that the truly important aspect is the length, so I straightened out one of the springy bends, re-formed it to hang straight, and slipped it back in the plastic holder, bending the extra around the case. (I've added a picture before I put it in the case. If you can't clip the extra, make sure you bend it in such a way that doesn't interfere with the swinging motion. I re-bent the extra, and tested it with the batteries in after putting the motor case lid back on and slipping it in place.) Put it all back together and it works like a charm! But I never would have been ballsy enough to rip apart the innards without this post.

Thanks for the instructions! I used these and 2 YouTube videos on the same topic to help me fix the swing. I have never done anything like this before and I was able to do it by myself with one try. My advice to others is be patient and pay close attention to the exact position of the leads on the old/broken motor, take a pic if you have to, and solder everything to the new motor exactly like the old one. I used an AirWick freshmatic ultra for $6 and a $20 soldering kit, both bought on Amazon. The swing was given to me from a friend and was not working.

So for $26 I got a working swing, a soldering kit I can use for future projects, and the satisfaction of fixing something myself! Crud, I messed my unit up. At first I thought I had all the leads going to the right place with the new motor.

Turned it on and the spring mechanism moved side to side. Once I put the plastic swing 'gate' back over the spring though, the spring just couldn't seem to move the unit enough. I tried reversing the wires and I'm pretty sure I've screwed the unit up - smelled a burning smell from the control mechanism and now the thing won't shut off unless I manually detach the wires or remove the batteries:( Also the motor seems to moving way faster than before but it still doesn't generate enough strength or momentum to make the swing actually swing.

This really sucks because I'm borrowing the swing from a friend and now it looks like it's practically useless:(. Soldering is the hardest part, and yes it has to be done!

I don't consider myself a electronics/repair person, by any means. But it was fairly simple. Remember how the wires and other parts, you have to solder, are connected. I almost burnt out the replacement motor. It took me 3 hours, cause I wired it wrong and had to disassemble and reassemble a second Time. But it was worth it. I also had a hard time removing the motor box from the swing, as I did not remove the battery box or rotating mirror.

Thus, had to force out the attached wire that moves the swing, in order to remove the motor box. All In all, it works great. I gibe myself and these instructions?? I tried using this fix but it did not work. My swing would barely swing without the aid of a push.

Fisher Price Aquarium Cradle Swing Motor Not Working

Once pushed it would slowly build up speed. So I took apart my swing and bought the air freshner for the motor. The motors were identical! I removed all hardware from the old motor and soldered it to the new one.

I will sping the gear only when i give it some assistance, and when it turn it does turn fast but not powerful. It will not turn the cog in the housing. Also, the speed control does not have any affect on how fast the gear will turn nor does it turn the motor off once it starts to spin (Freely). My soldering skills are amatuer, did I mess something up soldering or do I have something else going on?

All my connections were solid and I even revered the positive and negatives and achieved the same results. I know this is an old comment, but in case anyone else is stuck on this step, here are some methods to deal with this. 1) Best: Use a new 0.1uF ceramic capacitor and 1N400x diode instead of reusing the old ones. Most ceramic caps in the range of 0.1uf - 1uF will work, and I think in this application any 1N4001 to 1N4007 series diode will work. While you're at it, cut off the old 1/4' of stripped wire and restrip/retin. That way if you fatigued the wire when you were unscrewing everything, you start fresh. 2) Good: Get either a solder sucker like or desoldering braid like.

You can get either of these at Radio Shack, too, and there are plenty of YouTube videos on how to use them. 3) Ok: While you heat the solder joint with a soldering iron, use a pair of metal tweezers or needlenose pliers to grab one of the component leads and gently pull it off the old motor. Repeat until they are all off. The problem is that very likely the component leads are crimped onto the lug and they will be hard to get off without damaging the components, especially the cap. You can also try snipping the component leads very close to the lug, but make sure you leave enough lead left to work with!