On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 05:03:42 -0500, wrote:

On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 18:00:47 -0400, micky
wrote:

Follow-up on fan that needs oiling evey day I think you'll all enjoy
this.

Well, I took the advice to use liquid wrench to clean out the dried up
oil. I have several zoom spout oilers and one wasn't labeled, but it
didnt' smell like oil, so since all I had ever filled them with was
oil or liquid wrench, I used that.

But then I thought, I'll never get oil in now because the space is
filled with that other liquid.

So I just ran the fan that night and it worked fine, that night and
the next.

After two days it would barely turn -- if I pushed it with my finger,
it stopped immediately -- so I got REAL liquid wrench, not 15 years
old, and put some of that in the bearings. .

I sleep with my shoulder about 12 to 18" from the fan. At 3 in the
morning, I felt a warm spot on my shoulder blade. I turned around
quickly and the flames were about an inch high. I reached for the
electric switch but before I got to the switch, the flame went out.

I think the flame must have been 3 inches high to cause the warmth on
my shoulder.

Now the fan does nothing when I turn the switch on. I have three
choices what to do next., but they will go in my next post.

Now, you may all laugh at me.

You're beyong laughing at, you're insane. That thing nearly burned your
house down, it's charred and the motor magnets are likely weak or
destroyed,

What motor magnets do you mean? The stator is an electromagnet
soley dependent on the windings around it, which will be replaced, and
the current through the windings.

The rotor is magnetic when currents are induced in it from the stator.

Which do think is weakened?

You haven't seen the stator so you don't know if it was damaged.

Amd you still want to waste money on it. Toss it in your
garbage or recycle bin, and buy a new or good-used fan.

BTW, all there motor rebuilding shops thought it could be repaired.