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just smacked the ceiling fan with a piece of drywall I was moving, and the fan isn't working right. Acting like I broke a shear pin. Of course, it could be that I just broke something more expensive
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Not that I know of.
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Did you check to see if the rotation switch has been knocked out of position? That did happen as a result of a pillow fight. Pushed it back to its end position and the fan worked fine. There was no shear pin.
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The high end fans have a pin with a clip that holds them from spinning on their motors when you turn them on.
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this is a hunter. I tried to buy the best one I could, but the selection is limited at the BORGs. It does spin, but there is some scraping on startup and you have to push it to get it started.
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The blades are attached directly to the motor.
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Sounds like you bent the shroud and it is rubbing against the rotating motor part.
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(07-11-2016, 10:49 PM)FIB 1 Wrote: Did you check to see if the rotation switch has been knocked out of position? That did happen as a result of a pillow fight. Pushed it back to its end position and the fan worked fine. There was no shear pin.
I never responded back to this post. The switch was in an intermediate position between forward and backward. I must have hit it hard enough that it got dislodged.
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No, the ceiling fans don't have a share pin
