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If you turn it off, it will cool down and seize.
I just take it appart… clean the electrical contacts and oil the motor spindel with 3 and 1 oil. I have yet to figure out which capacitors that will work with these box fans when they overload and die. If you catch it before they poop out you can keep em going forever. Like a marine cleans their rifle I clean my fans. I can do it in like 10 minutes. Zip zip blam fan
https://vger.to/lemmy.world/c/dull_mens_club
Please, if you would, we dig that.
Both a welcoming invitation and savage burn at the same time. Love that community.
If you format the link with an exclamation point community @ instance it creates an instance agnostic link.
Like this: [email protected]
EDIT: NGL I dig that community and have been lurking for awhile there.
Do you know how to do a comment then? I know the devs know how to make it so it will do this automatically, not sure why this hasn’t been done or maybe there’s clients that do this?
Doing a comment is a little strange due to how instances log those.
Here’s a link to a tool for it.
And a test link to the comment I initially replied to using the tool
Very interesting, thanks. It still won’t let me vote on your test link, but I might have did the crosslink wrong.
When you open the crosslink you’ve got to enter your instance so that it sources the comment on your instance. Good news is that you can change the instance if you set the wrong one pretty easily.
Can confirm. My office fan needs me to kickstart it with a pen before it rattles to life
Everyone point your fans at the sun, we need to move the planet away from it.
Are you trying to blow out the flame?
I think in the grand scheme of things this would only work by slowly stripping the atmosphere but I thought the plan was to use the combined reaction force part of an action-reaction pair to slowly push Earth farther away from the sun.
Sort of a decentralized propeller engine idea.
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I cleaned mine last month! Now I don’t have to do it again for another 5 years.
I love taking peoples box fans and cleaning them. It’s not even hard, people just don’t do it and let it suffer.
I meant to say “taking apart”, but I’m leaving it that way because it’s funnier.
Last time I tried to clean my old one it decided to kill itself, and I’m not sure how close I was to an electrical fire.
Isn’t that also kinda what happened to the man in the photo IRL?
Amou Haji
That was load bearing grime.
Somehow I don’t think the dying and the washing are related
He was 94, super spright. Dying at that age? Chance in a million.
The capcitor will poop out I think before that happens. Some have a thermal sensor aswell
Needs to be a gif where it starts shaking a tiny bit for like 30 seconds
This individual does not give a shit about wasting electricity.
But don’t you stop it every 6 months to flip the switch and make it spin in the other direction? You know, the unlabeled switch and nobody knows which way for which season.
Fans pull air up in summer and push and air down in winter. Hot rises cold air falls, you’re just trying to push or pull the air current away from where it wants.
I am confident you have it exactly backwards. In the summer fan pushes air down to create active airflow that cools you through increased evaporation.
In the winter, fan pulls air up creating circulation to avoid cold spots in the room. Being able to feel air movement makes people feel cooler even if the air is the same temperature as they are.
I think it’s notable that in winter you run it slower so that you can’t feel the air movement. You are just trying to get the warm air that rose to the ceiling to come back down gently by pulling some cooler air up to displace it.
Three years isn’t very long for a fan. We all get that, right? Even non-stop…
Hell, I’ve got fans in my server that are over ten years old, they’ve been running quite literally non-stop.
Ceiling fans are a bit different because the blades are huge floppy levers and the dust on them causes uneven wear and eventually Imbalance and death.
The fan that the builder installed in my parents living room when the house was built nearly 45 years ago is still running, and is nearly silent even at full speed.
It has been running for the majority of its life and spends all but 3 months of the year at full speed.Ceiling fans wear out only because fan manufacturers realized that they were never going to stay in business if they didn’t make them fail.
Yes and the rain they fail is because they’re a cantilevered blade in an unstable base often supported by plain bearings because they’re cheap.
