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A fan stopped working. It was frozen; it needed cleaning and oiling. It’s something Ken used to do each spring and I forgot about it. Until the fan didn’t work. So, I took off the plastic screens and cleaned them
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Then it was take off the fan blade and clean it.
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Put down newspaper, clean the frame and wipe dust off the motor
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Get some oil in that joint
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And on the other side
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Replace the blade and check; sure enough, it works
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Replace those cleaned plastic screen covers
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Put the tools back in place, clean up the table and put the fan in the window. Like the Little Red Hen , I did it all by myself