Bushings that is not grease, just very polymerised oil, which has gotten very thick as the heavy parts polymerise, and the light components boil out with heat. Light grease will just act to keep the oil around, holding it in the bush area so it can wick into the bush.
Great Video. I have been doing this for years and I still have Fan's bought in the 1950's. Glad to see this work spread. It will keep these out or our landfills.
Anyone thinking some cheap walmart bearing grease for more metal protection and might last a bit longer while light grease will run out faster. If its all you got around the house though its likely fine just would think you might have to service more frequently.
Frank, I did re-dissemble the fan and wash the guards, and blades in the dishwasher. I just could not stand to have a great working fan with dirty parts.
I'm curious if you have had any luck replacing the bushings themselves, including sourcing replacement bushings? Or is that usually the death of them given how permanently they are stuck in there?
Have done an exchange, replacing the housing with that off another one with dead CCA wire, and with a few drops of engine oil on the bushings you get it running again. Did the same with an AC fan, long obsolete, using the bushings off a dead standing fan to replace them, putting them in with a quick boiling in oil to clean them, and using the clean dry feltings, soaked with oil, to lubricate them again. Boiled the bushings to get the original 2 drops of mystery oil out, and soak the new oil into them properly.
Green is a thin varnish they apply to keep the rotor from rusting, thin varnish, and green dye so that QC can see they have been done.
If you have a fan in your house (exempting your garage) that looks like THAT, you have a far more costly problem. Your lungs.
I performed this service last weekend. My fans last decades as a result.
Bushings that is not grease, just very polymerised oil, which has gotten very thick as the heavy parts polymerise, and the light components boil out with heat. Light grease will just act to keep the oil around, holding it in the bush area so it can wick into the bush.
It's a PSC motor.
Great Video. I have been doing this for years and I still have Fan's bought in the 1950's. Glad to see this work spread. It will keep these out or our landfills.
Anyone thinking some cheap walmart bearing grease for more metal protection and might last a bit longer while light grease will run out faster.
If its all you got around the house though its likely fine just would think you might have to service more frequently.
C'mon Steve, need to at least clean the actual fan blades, makes it more efficient...😀
Always enjoy the videos.
Frank.
Frank, I did re-dissemble the fan and wash the guards, and blades in the dishwasher. I just could not stand to have a great working fan with dirty parts.
I'm curious if you have had any luck replacing the bushings themselves, including sourcing replacement bushings?
Or is that usually the death of them given how permanently they are stuck in there?
Have done an exchange, replacing the housing with that off another one with dead CCA wire, and with a few drops of engine oil on the bushings you get it running again. Did the same with an AC fan, long obsolete, using the bushings off a dead standing fan to replace them, putting them in with a quick boiling in oil to clean them, and using the clean dry feltings, soaked with oil, to lubricate them again. Boiled the bushings to get the original 2 drops of mystery oil out, and soak the new oil into them properly.
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