In this video I show you how to get a blower wheel (squirrel cage) off of a bathroom exhaust fan motor shaft. This will help with replacing parts in your exhaust fan and cleaning your blower wheel.
It was driving me crazy trying to get the wheel off the motor cuz it would not budge at all. Your video was the answer - THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING THIS!! I now have a working ventilation fan in my laundry room. Project completed!!
Thank you so much!!!! Other videos just showed people pulling the blower wheel right off the motor. I have pretty decent numbers on my back-squat, bench, deadlift and overhead press... I didn’t think elbow grease was the problem😆 Keep up the good work because you’ve just earned yourself a new subscriber!
Super important to remove the set screw before tapping on the motor to dislodge it!! I banged on it with a hammer and ended up bending the blower wheel and housing.
I like squirrel cages a.k.a. blower wheels I have three fans that have blower wheels except in our bathroom fan they are floor fans you can find them at Home Depot or Amazon, and many more
Thanks, was worried I would not be able to get the squirrel fan back on - had to pinch some small compression clips open to get the shaft to seat properly - but it worked. Dangerous working with plastic from the 1970's!
I'm glad you've helped some people-but it may not be a good idea to give blanket fan-whacking advice like this. I tried this on the Reversomatic fan motor I just replaced, and it wouldn't budge. When I more thoroughly cleaned the spindle inside the turbine, I found it was secured by an Allen screw that had to be loosened. Just saying.
Found that out myself today too. I should have looked at all the comments!!! I have an old Miami-Carey fan that I don't want to just replace because the motor does still work. It just needs to be cleaned. I did try to whack the blower wheel off initially, but before really whacking it, I got a 2nd opinion from our neighbor who fixes power tools and small motors for his job. Same thing. Needs it an allen wrench, and one with a long arm to reach in. This video was still helpful though when I fixed our more modern Broan basic fan.
i had to hit mine so hard to get it to budge that the opposite bearing vibrated down the shaft so i had to set that end in the vise to get it back, but ahh, brushes adjusted so i have ac in my jeep for a little longer. brushes almost toast.
i got plenty of toilet paper But i'am roughting it on purpose to see what to use. Ok this brown wraping paper they use to stuff boxes, take it cut it 2 toilet paper squares long and 1 toilet paper size wide, Soak it in warm water wad it up let it soak good, then squeeze the water out pull apart to lay out flat let it dry, very soft and strong can use it to blow your noise too NOW this is NOT SEPETIC TANK SAFE, BUT CAN FLUSH IT DOWN CITY SEWAGE , sepetic tank must burn it or bury it or trash it
One problem, you started at step 2. There's a wire spring wrapped around the fan where it the motor shaft comes through. Nothing happens until that's removed in order to remove the fan. Guess I'll just have to learn as I go.
