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FANS: These are rarely worth fixing, but certainly worth MAINTAINING. What I mean by this,is ensuring that the mesh blade cover is removed from time to time, and the accumulated dust vacuumed off (or brushed with soapy water and dried). The centre plastic screw is usually left-hand thread, so it is clockwise to unscrew it, and remove the blade for cleaning. If the plastic blades get VERY heavy coating of dust and fluff, the fan blades will often be out of balance, increasing the running noise, and reducing efficiency and speed.
With the blade removed, put a couple of drops of light oil on the lowest part of the spindle that you can see (closest to the front bearing). Spin it back and forth a few times to disctribute the oil into the bearing. What often happens with these sort of pedestal or desk fans, is that the accumulated dust finds its way into the front bearing spindle, and will eventually cause the fan to slow down, or even stop on ther lowest setting. As this gets worse, if not corrected, you will find that the fan will not start up on the slowest setting. That is a good test to see if you need to clean and oil it.
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