Happy Thanksgiving to you turkeys!

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Happy Thanksgiving! We celebrated ours early last weekend and decided to just take it easy today and putz around with misc. fun stuff...
Our furnace had a different idea! We just had a snow storm yesterday and then the blower motor seized up last night. We could smell something electrical cooking at bed time and finally traced it down. Thankfully, I have a spare blower cage & motor out in my shop that use to circulate cold air from the floor back up to the ceiling. It really helps to keep the entire shop at an even temperature. I have it wired up to an extension cord to run continuously. I THINK it will slide into the furnace frame and get us by through the long weekend.
Fingers crossed, we'll be down to a little below zero degrees this weekend overnight. We also have a gas fireplace, thankfully.
So that's what I'm thankful for this thanksgiving, along with my redneck ingenuity skills. LOL
Cheers, and wish me luck! We have have transit ducts in the slab of our house, so this furnace has the blower assembly sandwiched right inside the middle of the furnace. I had to pull out all the electronics and the chimney stack in order to get to the blower cage. FUN! Looks like it was long overdue anyways.

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MobileCustoms said:
Happy Thanksgiving! We celebrated ours early last weekend and decided to just take it easy today and putz around with misc. fun stuff...
Our furnace had a different idea! We just had a snow storm yesterday and then the blower motor seized up last night. We could smell something electrical cooking at bed time and finally traced it down. Thankfully, I have a spare blower cage & motor out in my shop that use to circulate cold air from the floor back up to the ceiling. It really helps to keep the entire shop at an even temperature. I have it wired up to an extension cord to run continuously. I THINK it will slide into the furnace frame and get us by through the long weekend.
Fingers crossed, we'll be down to a little below zero degrees this weekend overnight. We also have a gas fireplace, thankfully.
So that's what I'm thankful for this thanksgiving, along with my redneck ingenuity skills. LOL
Cheers, and wish me luck! We have have transit ducts in the slab of our house, so this furnace has the blower assembly sandwiched right inside the middle of the furnace. I had to pull out all the electronics and the chimney stack in order to get to the blower cage. FUN! Looks like it was long overdue anyways.

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was gonna reply like, not to the situation but to the ability to think outside the box to "rig" something up. the tan unit looks like one I had around here for ages. hmmm, maybe it's hiding in the garage somewhere. could you put the working motor into the furnaces squirrel cage?
 
abdywgn said:
was gonna reply like, not to the situation but to the ability to think outside the box to "rig" something up. the tan unit looks like one I had around here for ages. hmmm, maybe it's hiding in the garage somewhere. could you put the working motor into the furnaces squirrel cage?
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Thanks. I just slid the entire cage and motor into the furnace and plugged it in to an extension cord. Up and running great for now, until my replacement motor arrives! I want to keep the spare cage for my shop recirculation unit because it works so good.
Cheers!
 
MobileCustoms said:
Thanks. I just slid the entire cage and motor into the furnace and plugged it in to an extension cord. Up and running great for now, until my replacement motor arrives! I want to keep the spare cage for my shop recirculation unit because it works so good.
Cheers!
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makes sense and easier than trying to slid the cage off in the cold. we had a motor do the same thing when I was living at home. I pulled it out after it cooled down. found the oil ports, squirted some in and got it running again. I did replace it soon afterwards. I think I only popped two fuses with my rewiring job.
 
No Thanksgiving is complete without the pukin cat gravy boat. And of course, it's obligatory to make the sound of a pukin cat when you pour it.

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MobileCustoms said:
Thanks. I just slid the entire cage and motor into the furnace and plugged it in to an extension cord. Up and running great for now, until my replacement motor arrives! I want to keep the spare cage for my shop recirculation unit because it works so good.
Cheers!
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how did the night go? temps hold, nobody woke up with frostbite on their nose?
 

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