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On May 8, 3:14 pm, "Jeff" <jrw8...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Refrigerator fans are designed to run continuously. Remember a story where
> the Air Force was having trouble with similar mil-spec fans used in missile
> silos. They switched to a commercial refrigerator fan which lasted much
> longer and cost much less.
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> "z" <gzuck...@snail-mail.net> wrote in message
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> news:1178637809.193697.120710@e65g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...
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> > you know the kind, no rotor winding, bronze bearings, on every kind of
> > fan from desk fan to window fan to A/C fan to dehumidifier fan to vent
> > fan, where the bearings always gum up after two years and you cannot
> > get enough oil into them to get them back to life, so first they have
> > trouble starting up, then they get slower and finally burn out the
> > windings.
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> > Anyway, is not there somewhere a person can get a decent replacement
> > with decent bearings? even (wow!) ball bearings? or some design with
> > an oiling port?
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> > or failing that, a source for dirt cheap replacements where the cost
> > is as low as the quality so I do not have to keep ordering replacement
> > motors for the dehumidifier every two years for $30?- Hide quoted text -
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Now that I look at it again, the fact jumps out at me that the fan is
mounted behind the condensor coil, so that the hot air washes over it.
That cannot be good for the stupid sleeve bearings.
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Re: stupid fan motors
