Pedestal Fans Restored at The Asylum
Source: https://makersasylum.com/makerspace/ Goa! One imagines pristine beaches, tall palms swaying in the wind, and beautiful architecture — the old Portuguese villas with wide verandas and tall pitched roofs. Summers can be very humid, and pedestal fans are widely used to ease the edge of the heat. The Drill Press cafeteria located in Moira, Goa , is a place where people with diverse interests come to exercise their creative or maker urges. Since I recently moved to Goa, I've taken up such incremental repair challenges regularly at the Maker’s Asylum , where the Drill Press CafĂ© resides. There were 3 pedestal fans that had broken down there. These fans help life along for the inmates here. All three had broken down!!đź’” Fan #1: The breakdown happened because it was used outside in the courtyard. This was an Amazon Basics fan. It had ingested a lot of dirt, which caused the motor shaft to seize in the sintered bronze bearings. The failure was gradual over time until it stopped work...
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