Scared out of my wits to attempt my first ever electrical project. The pull chain in my bedroom ceiling fan light quit working. I didn't have a clue how to fix it and hiring an electrician over a 3-day holiday weekend was not a budget friendly option for this old retired lady. I watched your video while replacing the pull chain switch. After turning the power back on I started laughing and screaming for joy. Everything works again. Thank you thank you thank you.
If you bend a sewing pin into a tiny hook shape you can fish the broken chain piece through one of the holes on the bottom of the switch. Then tie a peice of string to the bottom of the chain and push the chain and string up through the bottom hole back into the switch. Then use the hook again to hook onto the string and pull it out the main chain hole. Then you can either use the string as your new chain or pull very hard on the string to expose enough of the chain to attach a new chain extension to it. The whole thing took me about 10-15 minutes. Make sure the string you're using is very strong but thin enough to fit through the holes when knotted. Fishing line would work good I used
Instead of making this an impossible project! You got right to it! Thank you Thank you❤gonna attempt today! Back in the 90’s later this week! Appreciate you✅
Thank you for your video. I found it very informative. I had replaced the fan speed switch in one of my fans years ago. I just had not replaced the light switch before and you were very clear with your instruction.
Very helpful, since my fan and light both stopped working but there is electricity at walk switch and all over fan base, lightbuls and blades. I took the base off. Now I feel confident that I can fix it.
This video was very useful like the other videos on how to replace a light kit pull chain switch, and once you do it so often, then it feels like that a broken pull chain switch isn’t really nothing, unless it depends on what light kit you’re doing it to.
Awesome little Union Hugger Ceiling Fan. those are quite rare. keep it in good condition. if you decide to take it down, they can go for like 25-35 on ebay. maybe even more
I can't figure out for the life of me how to wire my damn ceiling fan. I have never been more stumped in my life. My light went out and I figured that it'd be a simple fix. I couldn't have been any more wrong. My pull chain has one wire but I have no clue where it goes.
If you have the correct switch there should be wires to match each of the wires on the new switch. You can look at how the original is wired up before removing it so you know how to wire up the new one correctly.
@@KyleMerl you have two black wires coming out and you wire nutted one of the black wires. Where did the other black wire go? That's my major problem and question, where is does that loose wire go? You did not show that part in the video. I replaced mine and the fan works but the light doesn't go on when I pull the chain and I assume because the looses wire needs to go somewhere? Please advise. THANK YOU
Hmm... check your electrical connections to make sure everything is wired correctly and that no wires came loose as you were putting everything back together
You can also use different colored electrical tape to make each wire that was connected to the same wire nut. So this way you're color coding the wires so you know how to put them back together
