dear hearthtools,
First, I want to say that I very much appreciate & highly value you taking the time to tell us these things.
I looked again and yes, It says"room air circulater", right on the picture. WOW! dat is a dirty one.
I hope I am lucky enough to have that mounting plate, where you can remove the screws & pull out the motor & squirll cage as a unit. What a joy that would be.
But with my luck, I probably don't have something so repairman friendly. I will probably have to remove the entire blower housing and take the squirll cage off the motor shaft from one side and the motor off from the other side. I have had to do just that on air conditioners,
many times, & it was always a job I hated.
I will look very carefully at my pellet stove in april. I only had the sheet metal off the back once in sept 07, just to squirt oil at the bronze bushings on all 3 motors, with a pull spout plastic oiler, as the stove was built in july 06.
At ,in the above sentance means , in the general direction of, around, near , on the motor shaft, and generally,all over the outside of, the motors in question, seeing as I had no inclination of taking a tool to the stove, with the hopes that some of the oil would find its way
down the motor shaft,to the bearings.
It would be nice if those motors had oil feed holes, but I didn't see any, with just the sheet metal off the back of the stove and a 12 led flashlight.
So ,I settled for the soak & pray method of motor lub. You soak the motor bearing area with oil and pray that some seeps in to do some good.
On a warm day in april, I will try to do a more thourgh job of it , while checking my squerril cages for dirt build up & my exhaust for rats nests.
One clean out trick I have always liked & used often, is to plug the suction hose of the vac into the vaccum exhaust blow out port & use the pointed crevace tool on the end of the suction hose. This usually gives me a 30 to 40 mph air stream & seems to be easier to do & to work with, that starting up a gasoline powered leaf blower, although an electric leaf blower might not be so bad.
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I was asking in the earlier post what kind of cleaners worked best on the mess in the squerrill
cage rotor, windex, engine degreeser, awesome spray cleaner, laundry degreeser/spot remover, wd 40, keroscene, gasoline, alchol, paint remover, carb cleaner, carbon tetrachloride, percular etholine.
I normally wont use gasoline, keroscine, paint remover,carbon tet or percular eth, because they are dangerious.
They are chemicals of last resort.
I take it that that mess was just removed by pointing some air flow at it.
WAY TOO EASY
I always end up scraping with a wood chistle and dulling out the chistle before I am done.
But I guess one remembers what gives one trouble & forgets the easy fixes.
Just joking about the wood chistle, I only use it to take clinker scum out of the fire pot
I ran Larry's Fixall Applince Repair for 20 years. Washers, dryers, refrig & air cond. Didn't do or have pellet stoves, in the area, back then.1978 to 1998. By 1998 all the appliances I had trained on back in 76 had been changed beyond recoginition by the mfg's & I didn't feel like retraining, too old ,I guess, so I just went out of business.
Anyways, thanks again. Mom's banging on the pipes, wants me to feed her, gotta go & take care of the boss.
