When but on a friday night does a motor churp?

Tonight my wife and I were lieing on the couch watching some TV when the blower motor on our pellet stove started churping. Tear into it with the few tools I have here (everything else is either at the farm or at work) and find about 1/2 of the last homeowners dog in the squirrle cage. I took it all apart, took apart the motor and cleaned up the armature with a sponge w/ the scotch brite on one side. Put it back together and it's better, espescially at a lower speed (Blows more air too- go figure) but still not 100%.

I noticed that it's a Dayton (grainger) but their website is down for repairs right now. Call their 24/7 tech line and the entire blower (only thing with good numbers) is about $70. The guy will email me a parts breakdown when the site goes back up, and then I can see if the motor alone is any cheaper. Thinking I'll get a new motor, then fix the old one with new bearings and such so I have a spare to keep in the basement. The stove is only 5 years old, so I figure this will probably happen again...

Hope the stove will get us through the weekend so I don't have to burn more fuel oil.... Had to run the furnace today just to keep the wall with the thermostat (8' from the stove) above 72*.

Donovan from Wisconsin

I got a 1/4 HP from a reapir shop, Dayton last Thursday. It was $99.97 with our 7% tax.

I don't think there is a company around with so many different prices as Granger. You never know if you got a deal or not.

But they will have what you need without any doubt.

Any dealer can probably give it to you at the same price as they quote you, and can still put some cash in their pockets.

I'm going through the same thing with a Berko fan-forced in-wall heater.

It was sounding like a badger with it's nuts caught in a chipper-shredder so I took it completely apart, blew it out with compressed air, cleaned the motor bushings and shaft with solvent, then lubed it up with turbine oil and noted that it had no noticeable wear in the bushings.

Put it all back together and it STILL shrieks from time to time!

Time for a new heater, I guess!

Replaced the feed auger on my Am. Harvest corn stove a few weeks ago from Grainger and saved about 50 bucks in comparison to the company's website.Got it he next day from Speedy del. serv. and all's well again.

A+ company!

I would keep a spare motor on hand.These motors work in a hot place and never get oiled.

Google the motor part number and you will come up with a lot of places for them Granger is about the highest place to buy them. i get the best prices from Ebay or Amazon. the ones we use on our outdoor wood stoves are 97.00 from Granger and 65.00 from Amazon

72 degrees?!?! You guys must like living in the
tropics! We keeps our fuel oil burning monster in
the basement quiet by keeping ours at 62 during the
day, way way less at night. And as I type, my
Weatherbug in the corner shows a balmy 11 outside.

Why does your dog only get sick or injured on Friday night?

Don't know how you can stand that low of temps. At 75 I am still shivering with my flannel linded corderoy pants in the house and with mr. arther it is that much worse.

72 is the temp on the wall next to the stove- the rest of the house gets colder than that.

I try to keep the living room in the upper 70's lower 80's- that way the bed room and computer room stay sweatshirt comfortable.

Got a new blower on order from a site for $60(motor alone was $70!!!), free shipping. Should be here by Thursday at the latest, but I think it'll be here by Wednesday. Then I can take the old one apart and put new bearings in it.

Donovan from Wisconsin

2 years ago on dec 12 (friday night) my wife's chihuahua got knocked off the bed at 9:30 and off we went to the emergency clinic..... That was another expensive one.

Donovan from Wisconsin