And I was wondering if you’d be able to do a video of the Bayfield I would love to see a demonstration of that because I used to have one of them in my old living room at my old house and also my grandpa’s dining room had one as well
@@carterthefanguy9006 I was hoping to have it installed back in May but I came across some extremely shoddy wiring when I took down the old light fixture. Once we’ve got wiring that doesn’t look like it could burst into flames at any second I’ll definitely be recording a video of it.
wait, can you varnish the winding yourself? my 70s box fan just became too unpredictable to run, the winding has arcing coming from where the varnish has cracked ( I guess). I am doing research to replace it with another 70s or 80s box fan, however if I can actually varnish the winding myself, well then that's some good news for the day. Is that what you meant by your comment? or do you get them professionally dipped and varnished when you refurbish them? I don't have a lot of money so if I can fix that old RMR motor's windings with some paint on varnish, that would be great! -Edit- This day is the day I learned that you can buy your own electrally insulating varnish. I went to the city to pick some up and I am on coat number 4 of the spray varnish, I didn't want to wait for an order of liquid varnish where you use an eye dropper to apply it. My fan is going to be spark free once all the coats dry.
Hopefully it works afterwards! The motor does end up with a smell afterwards whenever you run it, but that goes away after a few days. Those RMR motors are very well made compared to the plastic Marco motors used in the 1980s.
@@alexthefanguy I have failed. the motor still throws sparks, I put about 10 hours into this "rebuild" and I am defeated. It needs a proper rewinding and it's just not financially smart to do that. I have had the fan for 9 years and with some quick math I have had it turned on for about 42,000 hours. Now I am a bit angry it's gone.
That little match box size thing attached to the motor is a capacitor. It can light you up if you don’t discharge it, like an HVAC capacitor. I found out the hard way.
That seems to be the case with the oil-can style capacitor found on HCAC equipment and older (pre-1984) fans, but I’ve never seen the newer poly capacitors hold any power when the fan isn’t running
That thing looks trash. My trusty Chinese fan named Pelonis blows more air than that fan. Ii is from 2006. It is 18 years old. I still love it like Steve Perry's Sherrie!
I had a lasko box fan that ran for a solid 10 years, almost 24/7. It started shaking pretty bad, was dirty, and I just decided to retire it and buy a new one. Just got my new one( same lasko box fan, but black) plugged in, and it shakes WORSE! 😂😂
I still have my brown D28, but the coils keep on freezing. I don't know how to fix it. In the last 7 years I bought 1 Danby and 1 Noma they last less than 3 years. Waist of money.
I'm curious why there isn't an inexpensive replacement for the Glory 3 speed motor on Ali Express or eBay. I guess it would cost as much as the new fan?
The white one is really nice. ❤ I'm trying to fix my brown one right now. The fan will come on and slowly die out within a minute or so. I oiled it. Not much output. Low rpm. I don't really want to chuck it. Do you think a new fan motor would help?
My story with a lasko box fan was in 2015 me & my neighbors went fishing in the Caney River in Oklahoma. Water was running hard we cast our lines for flathead catfish we put our rods down and let them set. After like 30 minutes my pole just went sideways and I set the hook. I'm like Chris I got a nice one if he doesn't break me off or spool me. I fought this thing in all that current thinking I had a 50+ flathead. Finally we started pulling it in and I saw a white square blurry I'm like Chris That ain't no fish we pulled it in and it was a lasko box fan crossed my line. We threw it up on the bank and still to this day Chris is still laughing about me catching that Fan. It had a 14ft catfish pole bent double fighting it in all that current. I still can't believe I caught a box fan in the River.
Knocked my 12+year old one over and it fell over on its face Wednesday while on high and broke one blade and it didn't seem like they could be replaced, so I bought a new one and had thrown the old one away, then found this video. So fished the old one back out of the can and put it in the basement in case the new one goes out for any reason that isn't blade related, if the blades are fine, I could just put them on the old one and use IT again. Also just noticed that Lasko website sells replacement blades, but they don't list $$prices on their products, just on the protection plans. Probably cost as much as the replacement fan lol.
Hey, at least yours works, i had a mainstays 12 inch for at most a year, it helped me sleep at night. But recently it just stopped working. But in it's defence it did fall an uncountable amount of times so i just assumed it succcumbed to it's 'injuries' I'd rather still have a working fan that rattles than one that doesn't work at all.
I have a 12” Galaxy table fan that is also made by Sanyo. It has the same chassis, but the controls look different and the center of the front guard is plastic instead of metal. These are such great fans, very powerful!
They’re certainly some of the best plastic fans money can buy. I tend to prefer these ones over the Lasko/Galaxy models since they don’t have those awful plastic grille clips
Thank you sir! Great video. My fan has been getting gradually slower as of recent. The high setting barely blows any air! Going to apply this process now.
Well dang the zip ties broke off and now all the wires are crossing and I’m not sure how it wasn’t shorting to begin with. Lol. Why didn’t I get the warranty. These fans are ass.
I did it! Your video was totally right on! My fan is so fast now, but it has to much vibration going on. I must have maybe but the blades on wrong? Vibrating on two higher speeds.
Maybe not cost effective, but if somebody sold replacement new or rebuilt box fan motors, like for half the cost of new, it would keep a lot of garbage out of our landfills!
Im looking to modify one of the fans and remove the switch from the housing so I can mount the fan and control it from a few feet away. Does anyone know what type of wire I should use to extend the switch?
The 4uF capacitors tend to be the worst quality and about 30% of the Lasko box fans with that capacitor that I have tend to have drifted capacitors. This includes my 2004-05 unit. It wasn't very dirty. Check your capacitors!
I'm not sure where the thermal fuse is located, nor what it looks like as a device. I've repaired about a dozen of these Lasco fans over the years, fans I found discarded because they were seized-up due to dust accumulation and volatilization of their original lubricant. I renewed ALL of them to good running condition. I've kept some, and donated the others. Except ...one!, which I worked on today. Its motor spindle spins freely (by hand only) after cleaning and lubing, but will not run under power. A DC electrical continuity check with a multimeter shows pretty high Ohm resistance on each of the 3 switch speed settings: 8k, 12k, and 15k Ohms. This seems odd to me. I think, if the thermal cutoff fuse has burned out there would be infinite resistance. Could the cutoff fuse have failed in some intermediate way?, e.g., cutting off the possibility of current-flow, but maintaining a weak (semi-conductor) sort of connection? I think the starting-capacitor is not implicated (not at-fault), because when I spin the spindle by hand with the unit switched on, it will not run (alas). If you can please post a hint on how to locate the thermal-cutoff device in the very Lasko model in your video (which is the model fan which I tried restoring today and which will not run after all the typical cleaning and re-lube) , I'd be very grateful to learn. Thank you! for your tutorial and sharing good information. --Joe / Tucson ARIZONA
It's a thermal fuse inside motor housing. Axial type 122TF Cutoff 115C 2A 250V. Might be a tiny flat TF that looks like a flat pack transistor that has same rating.
Put an ohms meter across the thermal fuse. It's probably blown open. I cut back the insulation to test it. If good I'd have taped it up and moved to next step.
Sherlock, thanks!, and that's a great and fitting name you have there, to suit the advice you've very kindly shared here. Well, I disassembled the motor to go looking for a cutoff fuse, and, inside, pulled off the heat-shrink tubing of all the connections to find it. It was an in-line device (like a 1/8-watt resistor in appearance), with a rating of 115 C (deg). I obtained a new fuse on eBay for $1.99, shipped, from a US seller. Will solder it in, and put new shrink tubing insulation on all the connections. Should work! I've never had a thermal fuse open (die) on any of my own fans, because I keep them clean and lubed. They never seize and heat-up, as prob. happened to this fan I found. By the way, my favorite lube for electric fans has for years been the Teflon (TFE) grease in a tube called "Super Lube", from SYNCO, which is a synthetic grease. But, a fluid collects at the top of the tube which is the same stuff, just liquid in form. It's clear in color and about the consistency of 10w30 motor oil. But it has NO SMELL to it, which means it is not evaporating, and so does not volatilize and turn to cement, like other oils or grease. Good, good stuff. A 3-ounce tube is about a lifetime supply (or longer). I "sip" the liquid Teflon liquid exudate from the top of the tube with an eye-dropper and apply it sparingly to motor shafts and bearings. Even when the fan motor heats up after running a long time, there is no smell of any lube coming from the fan, unlike the case of most other oils. The stuff does not dry out. Even though my fans never seize-up and overheat due to my ways of cleaning and maintaining them, I decided to replace the thermal fuse on this latest found one, rather than to not use a fuse and just solder the leads without a fuse in the circuit. Cheap insurance! A house-fire would not be "cool". At all. Many thanks to you for your replies! --Joe / Tucson
@W7DXW be sure to leave leads long. Also you must use a heat sink on leads to solder. An alligator clip will work. Let me know how it works out. Thanks.
The fan I cleaned and replaced TF on was a Lasko common floor fan. TFE is the best. Used it in aerospace tech/mech work for decades. I like the spray for mechanical like car door hinges etc
at least you are using the correct oil... use a high quality mineral oil..don't need to use much. :) Another note, sadly thse fans are using the cheapest ball bearings on the planet. If you could press out the ball bearing and get some decent ones, it would last much longer.
