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Captain Pike · 04-10-2006, 05:24 PM

Found the forum again! Lousy bookmarks were lost, 3 years of them, gone. And I find this place again, and sent off donation. (All hail the contributions of fellow good people.) Anyways, had a weird saturday, both fans died on me.

The bathroom fan stopped turning, cleaned off the dust bunnies, hacked up a lung... (don't stand underneath one while cleaning)... I've WD40'd the spindle, still nothing. Took it out of the housing, plugged it in, then tried manually spinning it, and I can hear the motor try to spin it, but no spin. When I do try, it seems to thump inbetween spots, no clicking, but it spins easy inbetween the spots. Motor seems to work harder trying to spin it up, but still nothing.

And same day, turn on the wall unit AC, same story. Motor starts, cooling portion kicks in gets cold, but no fan turning. I can reach in and shove the fan blades, and it has that same action as the bathroom fan. It thumps into place, then the motor works harder trying to spin the fan. I'd have to dismantle the thing to get to the motor, or for cleaning the inner inner parts.

Any advice on this? I'd rather fix these than buy new.

04-10-2006, 05:24 PM	#1 (permalink)
Captain Pike Upright	Bathroom Fan and Wall unit Air Conditioner Fan Found the forum again! Lousy bookmarks were lost, 3 years of them, gone. And I find this place again, and sent off donation. (All hail the contributions of fellow good people.) Anyways, had a weird saturday, both fans died on me. The bathroom fan stopped turning, cleaned off the dust bunnies, hacked up a lung... (don't stand underneath one while cleaning)... I've WD40'd the spindle, still nothing. Took it out of the housing, plugged it in, then tried manually spinning it, and I can hear the motor try to spin it, but no spin. When I do try, it seems to thump inbetween spots, no clicking, but it spins easy inbetween the spots. Motor seems to work harder trying to spin it up, but still nothing. And same day, turn on the wall unit AC, same story. Motor starts, cooling portion kicks in gets cold, but no fan turning. I can reach in and shove the fan blades, and it has that same action as the bathroom fan. It thumps into place, then the motor works harder trying to spin the fan. I'd have to dismantle the thing to get to the motor, or for cleaning the inner inner parts. Any advice on this? I'd rather fix these than buy new.