Postmortem of a cheap, broken fan motor 

Sorry about all the microphone popping…
Here’s a motor I pulled out of a ComfortMate fan I’d tried fixing, only to find out it was riveted shut and therefore not worth my time to fix. I ended up scrapping the motor and only saving a few things like the spacers, oil wicks, and thrust washers-but not before first discovering an egregious example of planned obsolescence.