You would wonder why anyone would want to repair a fan when you can go and buy a new one for $9 to $10 . But when you have one in each bedroom in a 6 bed house and another 3 in my PP apartment you can understand why. Besides , I like doing small jobs like that. You will notice that most fans after 6 months of continues running, the fans not only need cleaning but they start to run slower and slower and eventually stop or burn out from overheating, due to being clogged up with dust and the bearing in the front and mostly the bush at the back run dry of oil.
Also the front plate , [ as in photo ] gets brittle and disintegrates, but can be fixed by cutting a bit of plastic to enforce it.







Make sure you line up all 3 locating lugs before tightening the plastic nut, and don't over tighten as they break.




Don't over tighten this screw at the back that holds on the back cover, as on some, the screw touches the end of the armature shaft.




WD40 [ penetration oil ] will free up any stiffness in the armature shaft, but it is not the best as a long-term lubricant . I use a oil ,, suck up a little in a small dia size hose and put it on the shaft at the back end, giving it a few sharp taps to help the oil get into the bush. Do the same at the front end with the bearing.

Username Taken wrote:Thanks for posting this Duncan.
A couple of months ago we had two fans seize up. My wife wanted to put motor oil in them, but I had never heard of that and told her to take them to the fan fixer guy.
A couple of days later, YaTingPom, from elsewhere, posted about how he had fixed his fan with a couple of drops of oil. [Silly me]

Do you still have some film left in the camera Duncan? Where exactly do we put the oil when the fan stops turning?

Sorry I ran out of film about 10 years ago. But here's a photo of the armature shaft , bush end. you only need a couple of drops of oil, then tap the shaft to work the oil into the bush and do same on the other side then same other bearing end.

Also , I always dismantle the osolating mechanism that makes he fan wave from side to side. You would understand that these fans are built cheaply and the motor is barely strong enough to turn the fan blade, never mind the extra power needed through the gear and cog system to make it wave side to side.

Remember you are only working on a $10 piece of equipment so even if you fuck it up you would still have learnt something.

Finding someone who can do maintenance on ceiling fans is really difficult. We ended up buying new ones since the price was equivalent.

should of put that screw in first maybe