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[–] 89 points 2 months ago (11 children)

If you turn it off, it will cool down and seize.

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  • [–] 40 points 2 months ago (9 children)

    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

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  • [–] 41 points 2 months ago* (8 children)

    https://vger.to/lemmy.world/c/dull_mens_club

    Please, if you would, we dig that.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago* (4 children)

    If you format the link with an exclamation point community @ instance it creates an instance agnostic link.

    Like this: !dull_mens_club@lemmy.world

    EDIT: NGL I dig that community and have been lurking for awhile there.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (3 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    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

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    Very interesting, thanks. It still won't let me vote on your test link, but I might have did the crosslink wrong.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Oh! I recently pulled apart my dusty, cat-hair-sprouting desk fan and hosed it down in the shower. I could have posted it there.

    The thing is about five years old, it replaced one that was MUCH older. I didn't expect it to last this long. I hate the switch on it though. It's a rotating wheel switch that is too stiff. It's not big enough to get a hold of so I need two hands to turn it on and off.

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    • [–] 31 points 2 months ago* (3 children)

    Everyone point your fans at the sun, we need to move the planet away from it.

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    • [–] 16 points 2 months ago

    I cleaned mine last month! Now I don’t have to do it again for another 5 years.

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    [–] 14 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

    Isn't that also kinda what happened to the man in the photo IRL?

    Amou Haji

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    • [–] 12 points 2 months ago

    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.

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    [–] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Amou Haji

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    • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    Needs to be a gif where it starts shaking a tiny bit for like 30 seconds

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    [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    This individual does not give a shit about wasting electricity.

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    [–] 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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    • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    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.

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