OMG! I have thrown out many inflatables in my lifetime as the fans are usually hard to match up and expensive. You're the first person I've seen that actually took the time to go into a fan and show the process of cleaning out the corrosion. Took me 15 minutes to fix our inflatable singing snowmen that we have had for many years and were heartbroken when the fan could not keep up. I am beyond grateful and feel you deserve a few million views as I know people are throwing countless inflatables out every year with corroded blowers that could be easily fixed! You totally rock!
Glad it helped! I think those fans are a huge scam because you can buy replacement fans but they cost almost as much as a new inflatable. I've only had about a 50% success rate in cleaning them and then working again but it's always worth a shot 👍
First video that pops up, helps me fix a brand new inflatable. And I know what you’re talking about the pool seating. My little fan would turn in one direction and then switch and go in. The other works great now.
I will try tomorrow I hope it works, I just got my blow up for Halloween and fall down on the ground without us knowing and then stopped working. Hoping it just need to be clean 🤞
I bought a Halloween decoration from a store that closed. Fan stopped after 1 day of use after a rain storm. Lights light up but no blower. I'll try this out thanks
I don't think you can make those fans any cheaper and there is no waterproofing at all. On top of it the little transformer is so weak it barely has enough juice to get a brushless fan moving so if there is any debris/etc... it won't work.
I believe the term also applies to fans, stiction. Some early hard drives and IBM 4GB drives would do this. If you gave them a twist, they got past the dead spot and started. I was looking at this because now that I know it is 12v (on the fan and the power supply), I think I can upgrade to more than one single dim 12v led to a strip.
Your blower motor looks exactly like mine. I took the housing apart but couldn’t pull the fan off as easily as you did. Did you have to unscrew or loosen it from the bottom side to pull the fan off?
I just pulled it off....if the fan spins freely then i would maybe try spraying electronics cleaner in there if you can but if it doesn't spin then it's probably corroded so yanking on it isn't going to hurt anything that isn't already hurt.
the one i had had 2 screws but if there are no screws then i'd just try and rip it apart (it's already broken so you don't have anything to lose). From what I remember some of them just snapped together so if you pulled hard enought they came apart but be aware these are not meant to be fixed they want you to just buy another one...
On mine after you unzip the thing and reach in and find the fan just the two halves snap together so I used a screwdriver to kind of pop the snaps and pull it apart after that the actual fan just pulls off of the motor if it's the same type of fan that was in my blow up.
Use a brad or something about the same size as the axel on the impeller to pop it out from the other side. It might be under a sticker. If it's solid plastic there, you'll need to drill out the plastic to see if you can get access.
You could try but mine was corrosion which alcohol won't help. The main thing is to be real gentle because these are super cheap fans so there is not a lot of metal to begin with!
Yes and you can't find cheap replacements anywhere..it's like a 2$ fan. I'm going to work on really trying to make sure mine are dry when i put them up because it seems moisture and sitting for a year is what kills them.
