On 1/9/2012 3:56 PM, Doug wrote:
On Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:33:29 -0500, wrote:

On 1/9/2012 1:59 PM, Doug wrote:
Along the lines of my previous posts, if I can't clean it up to make
it work in place, I might take it home to work upon and then reinstall
if I can make it work. I don't know the exact model but it's a wired
Nutone (recent vintage) door chime. Nothing fancy just consider it
builder's grade. That said, anyone know the wire gage these things
get wired? What I have in mind is to extend the wires from my own
door chime at home to the floor so I can work upon the one in need of
repair. I know it's a light gage (fine) ... just not sure how crucial
it is to match so I can extend and work from the floor.

I don't believe that there is any repairable, replaceable, part on a
basic Nutone chime. It really makes no sense to remove it from it's
current location for testing, as you have everything you need right
there. The only practical reason to remove it, is to replace it with
another chime


I was thinking of cleaning the plunger if that'll make it work before
replacing. Possible on this Nutone?

Probably not. You can pull off the cover and see if the plunger moves.
There will be two plungers, one for each solenoid. The front door
plunger is double acting. It strikes the upper tone bar when pulled in,
and hits the lower tone bar when released. My guess is that that plunger
is frozen. The other plunger is for the rear bell, which you don't have.
It only strikes one bar (ding), that one is probably fine, because it's
not connected