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<blockquote data-quote="Bob Blaylock" data-source="post: 501305" data-attributes="member: 16749">Last week, our freezer failed.&nbsp; After removing everything from it, and packing what was still deemed salvageable in dry ice, I disassembled it, and found the problem.&nbsp; There's a fan, with a simple shaded-coil induction motor, that when I turned it by hand, I found that it did not turn nearly as freely as I thought it should.&nbsp; I removed that fan, and disassembled the motor, whereupon I discovered that one of the bearings was badly gummed up with some greasy/sticky material, I cleaned and lubricated both bearings, and put everything back together.&nbsp; The freezer has been running and performing flawlessly since then.&nbsp; Alas, the thermometer (which you can't read anyway because the resolution is too low, when scaled down to the limits that this forum imposes) reads about +30°F. in this picture, but that's just because the freezer is open, and outside air is hitting it.&nbsp; Since the repair, this freezer has consistently been running about -10° to -15°F.&nbsp; My wife and I have both lately been irrationally-obsessed with checking it frequently.&nbsp; That obsession may also have influenced me, running out of time for this particular challenge, to use the interior of this freezer as the subject of my entry.[ATTACH]183940[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bob Blaylock, post: 501305, member: 16749"] Last week, our freezer failed. After removing everything from it, and packing what was still deemed salvageable in dry ice, I disassembled it, and found the problem. There's a fan, with a simple shaded-coil induction motor, that when I turned it by hand, I found that it did not turn nearly as freely as I thought it should. I removed that fan, and disassembled the motor, whereupon I discovered that one of the bearings was badly gummed up with some greasy/sticky material, I cleaned and lubricated both bearings, and put everything back together. The freezer has been running and performing flawlessly since then. Alas, the thermometer (which you can't read anyway because the resolution is too low, when scaled down to the limits that this forum imposes) reads about +30°F. in this picture, but that's just because the freezer is open, and outside air is hitting it. Since the repair, this freezer has consistently been running about -10° to -15°F. My wife and I have both lately been irrationally-obsessed with checking it frequently. That obsession may also have influenced me, running out of time for this particular challenge, to use the interior of this freezer as the subject of my entry. [ATTACH=CONFIG]183940._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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