You, sir, have just saved my filthy fan - thank you! Your advice for tightening those motor screws evenly like lug nuts is very important because I had to take a few runs at it before my blade would spin smoothly.
My fan hadn't been cleaned in years cause my dad could never figure out how to open it. One quick google search, and I pulled out a pile of dust big enough to make a rug. Thanks for the video!
*Love the size and it fits perfectly in a corner but **Fastly.Cool** the whole room. Really like how you can auto adjust how long you want the fan to be on. It is quite but highly effective.*
So far so good...but for those of you, like me, who couldn't get the blade off, you have to pull quite hard very consistently and it will slide off. I'm only just up to "take the blade off", and will see if maybe it needs oil. I live in the Caribbean and the fan is on quite a lot.
Something funny , I found one of these in a dumpster at an auto shop about 6 months ago . Plugged it in and worked fine . Dust built up and could not figure out getting the face off , so glad I found this video . I will being doing everything in addition to make this fan last , so appreciate you 👍
I realize once again that I am one of many many comments but thank you for posting this video we've had this fan for well over a decade and it has not been cleaned once. So I'm glad to be able to say that my fan is actually clean and not blowing dust around my house
Tysm. Worked on my 5 bladed 4 speed 20 inch Lasko Cyclone with remote. Super helpful vid. I had forgotten that is disassembled for cleaning. And i didnt know you had to pull it apart so hard cuz the clips!! Thank youuuuuu
Thank you so much for this video! I figured there were screws someplace keeping me from taking off the front grill, but I couldn't find them. Once I got the grill off, I couldn't remove the fan from the motor, because it is affixed hard, and I can see no screws. So I couldn't go any deeper than just cleaning the front and back grills. Can't oil or anything (still wondering why). Anyway, after about 2 hours or work, my Cyclone has drastically improved from a spring breeze back to a beautiful autumn wind. Much appreciated!! 😊👍🏻
I'm glad your fan is working better. It's amazing how effective getting rid of dust is. The blades on these can be pretty hard to remove sometimes. I had to kneel on the rest of the fan to pull the blade off.
@@reagonowmix Breaking the blade is definitely a valid concern. I pulled the blade off of a cheap crappy AeroSpeed fan, and that blade actually cracked. This fan is definitely built a lot better though.
I'm sure I'm just one of too many people thanking you, but THANK YOU. Bless people like yourself who make these kinds of videos to lead the rest of us headless chickens, lmao
I was really close to tossing this fan and getting another cause I nearly broke the grill cover trying to take it off. Every other search came up windforce or something else. Ty....
Since purchasing it, ru-vid.comUgkxQuBMI30VhO6fDed6NOsYftsoNa8x0UZ5 this fan is a trustworthy companion during the hot nights in Texas for me. The sleep mode is really quiet and gives you smooth wind to cool down. At full speed the fan is quite noisy but also very strong.Only weird thing is that if there is a draught from another fan, the sleep mode would speed up occasionally (getting a bit louder, probably to level 2 out of 4). This never happened so far when I used only this fan though.
Peace to you! Mine comes apart a lil differently. My copper isn't enclosed. Will you please tell me what kind of oil to use? Thank you for this video!!
@@duanemoulton-n5o Sometimes these blades are pretty hard to get off. You have to pull on it really hard and hold the rest of the fan down with something.
Hey Carson, I found this exact model on the curbside and gave it a plug in. I found that the Fan's computer board and buttons turn on and work (Light for mode and timer changes) and there's light vibration/humming in the control panel and behind the motor. So this fan is indeed receiving power, but the blades don't turn. I just took off the screws only to find that the fan was never cleaned, it was pretty gray in the grill and blades when opened and I cleaned out the grill with a broom and blades with a cloth. I found this video so that I can find out how to remove the blade, which apparently you say just to pull it off. I'm hoping I can save this fan, it seems to be a simple hum and it does work on the console, so hopefully it just shorted out due to being dusty, do you thin you might know the problem to this? The blades do turn fine and I tried giving it a spin while plugged it to see if that jump starts the fan, but no joy.
Update, did pull apart the fan blade after typing that comment and found a motor shaft full of dust, clogged even. So I took my time to clean out both sides without oiling the bearing (Have no experience or oil to lubricate it), put it back together and it has the same result. It looks like it's the computer console that hums and vibrates, the lights come on and work as intended and the humming vibration intensity corresponds to fan speed, but the blades sadly don't turn.
@@SoarinYoshi64 Sounds like the capacitor may need to be replaced. The windings in the motor might be screwed as well. Does it spin for a while when you move the blade? If not, the bearings might just be too stiff. Hopefully the control panel isn’t messed up.
@@carson01XJ Yeah, it does spin when I move the blades and the wind when I cleaned it outside spun the blades freely. I am also thinking capacitor, but I don't know about soldering or have an iron for one sadly. I'm sure this can be saved, but my family thinks that I should toss it out again. Edit: Oh, and the zip ties on the motor in your video were half charred. Two of them even came off. They weren't white as new as your video shows
@@carson01XJ Yeah, it was notable that it was never cleaned. So I guess I can curbside it for trash again and maybe someone else can fix it before it goes away.
Hello Carson good new year to you my friend, I've just gotten 2 new fans to start off my new year, my Grandfather brought them to me visiting us from out of town , both of them are industrial floor fans they're modern but they are awesome fans , one is a steelton and the other doesn't have name tag , maybe it's one of the off brands but anyhow , my Grandfather found these 2 fans in a dumpster close by his house that an elderly couple had thrown away, when he tested them he said they both worked but one was completely seized and locked up and the other just had a shaft issue, but I have repaired both of them and work just perfectly, but one of the fans motor on the inside was coated with grease and this was the one with the baron problem, are all fan motors modern and vintage have grease lubercated motors ?
Happy New Year to you too. Glad that you got some free fans for your collection. I've never seen a fan motor that used grease as lubricant. Sleeve bearing motors (which is what most fan motors are) always use oil. Was the whole motor greasy inside? Sounds like someone messed with it or tried to lubricate it.
@@carson01XJ Yes it appeared that not only the whole rotor shaft was coated in grease but the whole untire amateur was caked up in grease as well , it's a wonder the fan is still working now, and I know that somebody had already did something to the motor because when I disassembled the motor , the whole thing came right apart with ease , I figured that out the second I took it apart , but I cleaned the thing up best I could and oiled the sleeve bearings and shaft and the fan runs just right now , I have even made a video on it that I'm planning on uploading to my channel soon , but an elderly couple had owned this fan before, and they just used them and threw them away and got new ones according to my Grandfather, good thing he found these things when he did , it's like they were screaming and hollaring for help , thank you for your kindness and help , I've learned something new today, God bless you and your family and have a great day 👍.
@@stevethefanman8955 Good thing you cleaned that motor out. It probably would have made your room smell like grease as soon as it warmed up. Glad you learned something new.
@@carson01XJ Thanks , yeah actually it did stink up the room after running it for the first time , I actually that the amateur had something to do with it because of how weak it ran, but after I cleaned out the grease , from the sleeve bearings and the amateur, I made a big improvement, and it works great now , I still have more work to do with both of them, but you will be seeing them on my channel soon and thanks for your reconition 👍.
Hello Carson , this is Fan man Steve here once again I'm sure you remember my old wizard box fan , I still have the original switch to it which is a leviton 3 way rotary canopy switch, I'm pretty sure you know what kind of switches theses are, but when I was getting the fan ready for the restoration I took the switch apart and stored it away in my drawer in my room and I tested it to see if it still works and does ! But the issue that I'm having is the the wires are either getting caught in the rotor some where or the switch has to be wired a certain way can you help me with this ?
When you say caught in the rotor, are you referring to the part of the switch that turns? Could you make a video explaining what's going on? I'd probably be able to help more if I could visualize it.
@@carson01XJ Hello Carson ' I will make a video of it tomorrow' I know they're are different kinds of these switch es , when I restored the fan , I kept all the original parts to it that still worked , I just couldn't remember how the rotary switch was wired when I took it apart , but I will make a video of it and show it to you thanks!
@@carson01XJ I've been trying to get the blade off... It is a type 20, not sure how old, but I can't for the life of me get the blade off the motor. I am trying to clean the underside of the motor because the dust build up it too damp/oily to vacuum it out.
