Clean An Oscillating Round Fan
Is your oscillating round fan dirty or noisy? Follow these simple steps to cleaning one and your oscillating round fan will be clean and quiet in no time!
Steps
- Unplug your oscillating round fan from the wall.
- Either use a Philips head screwdriver to unscrew the front grille from the back grille; or, push grille clips off front grille, depending on your oscillating round fan, and take it off.
- Unscrew the blade cap from the blade and take it off.
- Slide the fan blade off.
- Unscrew the back grille nut from the back grille and take it off.
- Slide the back grille off.
- Use a bottle of liquid hand soap and warm water on each fan part to clean it or run fan parts through a dishwasher.
- Set each cleaned part on a hand towel and allow about 10 minutes for each fan part to dry.
- Follow the disassemble instructions given above in reverse to reassemble the fan.
- Plug your cleaned oscillating round fan in and turn it on. It should be quieter and cleaner than before. If it is not, try the steps above again until totally clean.
- Finished.
Tips
- Be careful when dis- or re-assembling your fan
- If your fan shakes at speed, its blades may be unbalanced. You can balance a blade assembly made of soft plastic in much the same way as a lawnmower blade by balancing it on a spindle such as a nail and spinning it to see if it consistently comes to rest in a particular orientation, which would mean it has a heavy spot. Use a strong scissors to trim a thin sliver off the outside edge of the heavy blade or two and re-test so that it balances, or nearly balances.
- Unplug your fan before doing ANY maintenance
- After you remove the grills - you can go over the grills and blades with a shop vac. This saves time and is a lot faster then trying to hand clean each blade (and or parts) with a soapy rag (and then allowing for drying time). Depending on how dusty the fan is, you may indeed need that soapy rag to polish off particularly stubborn areas. Make sure that you are using a brush attachment with the shop vac. A hand held dust buster will not be strong enough.
Warnings
- Don't clean any of the electrical components with your wet rag.
- The fan blade may have sharp edges; use caution.
- If you cannot do this, DO NOT do it.
Things You'll Need
- An Oscillating Round Fan
- A Bottle Of Hand Soap
- A Philips Head Screwdriver
- A Hand Towel
- 10 Minutes Allowed for each fan part to dry
