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Extractor Fan Lubrication.

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Would you lubricate a fan motor this way?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Asf3C_LflFs


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    A needle point on nylon, a bearing, but not as you know it. 

     




    I can't imagine any of those in your boiler Sparkingchip. That type of small bearing would not need any lubrication. Whereas fan motors with steel shafts and phosphor bronze plain bearings will need proper lubrication.


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    A needle point on nylon, a bearing, but not as you know it. 

     




    I can't imagine any of those in your boiler Sparkingchip. That type of small bearing would not need any lubrication. Whereas fan motors with steel shafts and phosphor bronze plain bearings will need proper lubrication.


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