On 2010-08-09, Don Klipstein wrote:

I have seen two box fans smoke and one of them flame so far in my life.
In both cases, they gave advance warning by slowing down.

DUH!!

You run any mechanical/electrical device to death with no care or
maintenance and it's bound to die a painful/flaming death.

Am I missing something, here, or are a whole buncha complete morons
claiming to be blatantly negligent and then saying, "I told you so"?

nb