Good job and great explanation. Knowing that needing help to learn things is half the battle. Betsy At 05:29 AM 9/16/2009, you wrote: > > >Hi folks, >My handyman friend came over today and held my hand through taking >the fan's out of the bathrooms here. >The frame holding the fan is a square metal plate, on one end it has >little tabs, pointing out, and those fit into grooves up at the top >of your flume or square box which is around- up inside your hole in >the sheetrock. Over on the opposite end of the side with those tabs >were the outlets, all of this is located on the ceiling part of the >hole. Right against the wall, above the outlets for the light >fixture and fan was one little screw which I had to remove. Once you >remove that you pull from the side where the screw was, and your fan >along with the plate it is mounted in swings down with the tabs on >the other end acting as your sort of hinged end. The whole thing >comes out and you take your fan out, fire up the air compressor, and >blow the fan out real good. >Then you oil itt up, put it back in, plug it back in and poof! >Perfectly good fan again. Thank you God! >I have all of the tools to do this stuff myself, but knowhow comes >as I go and find people to bug to get it out of them. If all else >fails now, at least I can switch out the two fans I have, as we use >the one in this bathroom more so than in the other. >The more used one was just filthy and once cleaned and oiled, it >turned as freely as the other. But we cleaned both. >I was glad that my friend did not have to do much of the work, and >in fact, of course, I was the one who needed to do everything, so >that I would understand how-to from now on out. >Thanks for everyone's pointers there's just somethings I need >hands-on help with, before I am going to get it. > >Matt > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > >
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