I’m working on a house and the vent fan in the bathroom is making a lot of noise.
It’s old and worn out.
I decided to buy a replacement motor at HD and I looked and they didn’t have any.
So I just bought a tru tone fan (complete unit) for $15 and took it to the house and I looked at the existing fan and it was a Broan
Darn. Bought the wrong thing.
Just for the heck of it I took the new one out of the box and took the old one out of the ceiling (I removed the sheet metal flange with the motor attached and compared the two and they were different size of sheetmetal flange.
I used a 5/16 nut driver to remove the worn out motor.
I took the new motor and installed it in the old sheetmetal flange and to my surprise it fit (the machine screw motor mounts were the same)
Put it back into the ceiling, plugged it in, and wala it’s working.
Am I good or just lucky?
Edited 12/4/2009 4:19 pm by mrfixitusa
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>>....tru tone fan<< or NuTone fan?
If NuTone, it's the same manufacturer as Broan.
So I would say you are lucky and good!
Jim
broan is made and marketed by another - I think nutone, so probably same/same - lucky boy
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I removed the old fan and found it coated with dust and grime.I spun the old one by hand and listened to itI could hear a rubbing sound.I thought about spraying the motor with WD 40 and seeing if it would quiet down but could not find any WD 40
Often a fan motor will "perk up" if you oil the bearings, but the improvement is relatively short-lived -- maybe a year if you're lucky. (Regular oil's better than WD40 for this.)
This country will not be a permanently good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a reasonably good place for all of us to live in. --Theodore Roosevelt
Use "turbine" oil in the zoom spout bottles, lasts for years. Sometimes seen at Ace hardware, but appliance parts stores always have it.
Yep, the "zoom" spout is the cat's PJs. And the oil's OK too.
This country will not be a permanently good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a reasonably good place for all of us to live in. --Theodore Roosevelt
I looked for turbine oil and zoom spout at HD today and didn't see anything
Try a real hardware store. Or an appliance parts place.
This country will not be a permanently good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a reasonably good place for all of us to live in. --Theodore Roosevelt
A little of both. There's not a lot of variation in the standard low-end designs, so you can often pull off a fan swap, and if not the entire fan/motor assembly, often you can swap motors while retaining the old fan. The motors, especially, are all built to the same industry standards, so they're swappable within limits.