On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 01:46:50 GMT, "Leo Lichtman"
wrote:


"SteveB" wrote: (clip)What is the way to balance them? (clip)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This is a method I used to balance a plain fan, and it ought to work on a
ceiling fan as well. With the fan not running, I held a vibrating engraving
tool against it. The vibration overcame the "sticktion" in the fan
bearings, so the heavy side slowly drifted to the bottom. I removed a
little weight from that side and repeated until it stopped finding a heavy
side.

With a ceiling fan you would have to hold it sideways, but I don't see any
problem with that.

FIRST thing to do on most ceiling fans is make sure all blades are
pitched the same, and that they track true. Sinse the VAST majority of
ceiling fans in North America are made in China, you need to treat
them as semi-assembled kits.

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