WindChaser 12BFD fan

I see more fans than I pick up. They're generally too bulky to transport long distances, and even when they're not, there are so few useful parts in them that it's just not worth it most of the time. This one is an exception, much like the last one I wrote about, because I found it right outside my apartment building.


This is one of those box fans where the louvers spin to create oscillation. They're almost hypnotic to watch as well. Well, this one's probably not spinning anymore, so at least I can get the big sprocket that turns it.


But first, I'll get the buttons from the control panel. This being a box fan, there's not much to it.


Then again, maybe I won't get that sprocket. The back grate came off without much fuss, but on the whole this fan didn't want to come apart.


All I got were just the buttons. A note about the paper under them: I'm a bit embarrassed at how long it took me to solve the problem of the glare coming off the floor. Not a perfect solution (still hard to see transparent parts, and now white parts blend in too), but it didn't cost anything, so I'm happy with it.

Seville Classics tower fan

No entry last week due to computer problems. Fortunately, it wasn't as expensive a fix as the new motherboard a couple months ago, but then again, I didn't end up with any broken parts to scrap this time either.

On with the show, then. This disassembly was somewhat rushed, so it's not quite as thorough as usual. I had spent much of the night grabbing the three printers, so by the time I got to this, it was already very early Wednesday morning. Heavy trash comes around 5 or 6 n the morning, and I wanted the carcass of the fan out of my apartment in time for them to pick it up, so I had to hurry. If this had been a printer or something else with a lot of parts and entertainment value, I'd have just waited until Friday night to put in the trash, but I was already trying to find room for three printers and a vacuum cleaner as it was, so the fan was low on my priority list.

This is another one of those appliances that I wouldn't have even bothered with if it hadn't been in a pile right outside my apartment. There's never a lot of parts in a fan (i've taken several kinds apart), and less I'm interested in, but this one looked like it had a somewhat complicated control panel, so what the hell.

Here's a better shot of the controls. At this point, I could already tell that there would be some LEDs, and I was hoping those buttons would be seperate.

Well, the buttons were on a sprue, but that's OK, at least they're all together when I need them. The LEDs were too close to the circuit board, so I couldn't remve them without tearing them up. This is basically the extent of my taking this fan apart. I could have busted into the bottom, but there's nothing in the oscillating mechanism that I wanted.

And here's a shot of the fan blades, or whatever they would be called. I though briefly about saving it, but couldn't justify it.

The trophy pile is pretty meager, but the parts themselves are unique, so that's something.