Thank you for taking the time to do this. I took your advice and tried lubricating the front bearing. It got better. Motivated by that, opened up the casing and got to the rear bearing. Running as good as new now.

@DuctTapeMechanic

Ай бұрын

Awesome! Glad to help!

It's @ 40c today and thanks to your concise video I was able to 'fix' my fan!! Thank you SOOO MUCH ❤. A few drops of oil and it's running again like new 😊😊❤❤ Be Well !

@DuctTapeMechanic

Жыл бұрын

Glad it helped!

Nice, I learned something new today. The part about the capacitator was useful too, even though it was fine. Thanks for sharing!

@DuctTapeMechanic

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! I'm glad you liked it!

@GaiaCarney

11 ай бұрын

Me,too! I’ve got a vintage blue-bladed oscillating fan and now I have hope I can ‘tune’ it up 🕊

Thanks a lot! Especially when you show your wrong guess the first time, appreciate that lesson.

@DuctTapeMechanic

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure brother!

There should be a felt material surrounding the bushings that needs to be saturated with light oil (3 in 1 will work). The bushings are made of sintered metal that allow oil to slowly seep through. Doing this every 2 years or so will keep the fan running for a very long time or until the switch breaks. It's best to disassemble the fan to do this. You may need to lightly tap the shaft in several radial directions after reassembly to realign the bushings to the shaft if it doesn't spin freely, especially the front bushing which usually gets out of alignment during disassembly and reassembly. The bushings are convex on their outside diameter to allow for this.

This is what KZread was actually made for . Much props

The reason why your fan was barely spinning and gaining the proper speed after some minutes was a grease that sort of wore out by mixing with dust from air and moving parts (mostly from air though), which required heat to become more liquid. Since your motor can't rotate, its coils are overloaded and can't cool themselves by the wind they would produce, so the motor heats up very fast, old grease liquefies and creates less friction. However, this is extremely dangerous for the motor windings, and you shouldn't use it like this in any case. Since they overheat, either a built-in thermal fuse will pop and cut off power from coils, or the coils themselves will be "thermal fuses". Again, that is very dangerous, the coils' insulation would melt, causing short circuit and then fire. What I did with the similar fan which was in use for 5 years with original grease is completely disassembling the motor, cleaning all grease along with all crap in it and adding new. Did it twice to make sure there's no dirty grease anymore. Just in case did the same thing with the oscillation mechanism, however, after that I had to disable it by removing one of its gears, because as I've found out later, that mechanism caused a plastic ring on the shaft inside the motor to rub against a bearing and pollute the new grease. As long as I'm the only user of this fan, it's OK. And now it works much better even than when it was brand new. 2nd and 3rd speed practically make no difference, and 1st is just a bit slower. Now it's so powerful that I don't keep it powered for long because it cools everything very fast.

Great job! Saved this fix for future knowledge!

@DuctTapeMechanic

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Gotta love an easy fix, today I had to do the same 3rd time for my fan but it still runs like fast and then slow and fast and slow but the difference you just hear it in the fan, I'm guessing that is the cap, right ?

If you have been oiling the fan for some time and it is still slow and jammed , try putting a some diesel on the motor, turn it with your hands and leave it to dry. Then put some WD40 and try it on. It works like new.

Great video and explanation. Thanks 👍

@DuctTapeMechanic

7 ай бұрын

Your welcome!

Cool, I am having the same problem now I know what to do. Thanks🤗

@DuctTapeMechanic

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Very good !!

Wow, thank you alot.... It really helped me today😀

@DuctTapeMechanic

Жыл бұрын

Glad it helped!

My fan is on high setting but blowing on low. Would that be a capacitor problem also? Hope you see my message. I really can't afford to buy a new fan right now but hoping I could fix mine. Your videos are so helpful! My fan starts up fine and makes no noise. It's just not blowing on high anymore.

yes! it worked. Thank you

@DuctTapeMechanic

Жыл бұрын

Awesome!

Can you use any type of oil? Like would WD-40 work?

@DuctTapeMechanic

10 ай бұрын

Wd-40 would work but probably wouldn't last that long (but this is most likely a temporary fix anyways)

hi, i have a question, hope you could clarify. my main motor there are a few copper wires (maybe a couple) are broken, will it still working? or it’s dead now and need to replace a new motor?. thank you.

why everyone is lubing the bearings instead of applying grease on them?

my pedestal fan has a new capacitor and the motor is ok but the fan is not running what is the main problem?

the high speed of you taking it apart and taking the capacitor off didn't help, same putting it together, but did help me sort of

Eh, if this happened to a fan that you bought a year ago and was still under warranty, would you return it or try to fix it? 🤔 Is it a really bad sign that this would happen to a box fan after being used at home for just 1 and a half summers? cheers

@DuctTapeMechanic

7 ай бұрын

If it's under warranty I would not touch it! Return it my friend!

👍

i have a question, is the capacitor bad or the winding bad, my fan spins like normal, spins up easily except its slower than the normal speed of a new one, fast is medium speed, medium is slow speed, slow is really slow but still spinning, i have had the fan for about 4 years, i run it almost 24/7, i add oil to the bushings every 3-4 month and hence am kinda confused as to what the issue might be. thks

@condor5635

5 ай бұрын

I have the same issue with my Lasko fan the high setting I don’t think is as fast as it used to be. Did you find out anything related to this? Thanks.

@ainzooalgown7589

5 ай бұрын

@@condor5635 turned out to be a faulty capacitor, replaced it and the fan is like new

@condor5635

4 ай бұрын

@@ainzooalgown7589 my 10 microfarad capacitor was measuring 7.5! Tolerance was 5% so it is definately bad. Waiting for new one to arrive

What if to check the capacitor without desoldering? It is possible?

@DuctTapeMechanic

2 жыл бұрын

You will have to desolder it unless you have a ESR meter.

@ShaunYoung

Жыл бұрын

To clarify you'd be ok to only desolder one side of the capacitor also

@LIVITLUVIT

8 ай бұрын

Could you just cut the wire and connect the wires back together?

Again 3 in 1 red oil.. not the good kind of oil you need the blue 3 in 1.

Thanks. Just a couple of minutes to save a few bucks.

@DuctTapeMechanic

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely true! Thanks for watching!

@donkeyhockey

Жыл бұрын

​@@DuctTapeMechanic

great video I was also able to fix my fan thank!

very slow, should edit out repetitive comments otherwise helpful

i spun my coverless fan's blades hard so you don't have to