Simple repair & Fighting Inflation...

The humidity in my basement was creeping up to 70 percent and the dehumidifier wasn't working very well.
Cleaning the inside, especially the condenser coil was needed so I took the cover off and cleaned it up as
much as possible. It seems to be working better now so will leave it run and see if my work was effective.
I have a drain tube into the sink and it is dripping two to three drops per second now. Time will tell the story.
It wasn't overly dirty but I don't think it takes much to slow down the water collection. So maybe some of you
will read this and do a clean job on your dehumidifier. Yes, it's still the 1970's Emerson still with me. I had
shopped for a new one but the new ones are mostly from China so opted for a cleaning before I spring for a
new unit.
 
Oh Mike! You will need to come down about 9000 feet from your elevated kingdom to even remotely understand the dastardly oxidizer which plagues us.
 
RJSakowski said:
A great repair. I have fixed the fan motors on both the bathroom exhaust unit and dehumidifier by simply relubing the bearings. The manufacturers use oil filled bronze bearings and the lube gums up after several years of use. The relube job works for a year or two. I hadn't thought about rebuilding the motor shaft.
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Done that myself: cheap, not standard size induction motors with oilite bearings that dry out/get filled with dust after 20 years or so. Vacuum everything out while blowing out with canned air (hard to get a compressor up to the ceiling fans), then a couple of drops of thin Teflon oil.
 
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I suspect most of us on this site manage to save old stuff that most people would pitch.
I've got a great Sanyo oscillating fan that I bought in Yokosuka in '64 or '65. A couple of drops of oil on the bearings every year or 2 and every few years a disassemble to clean everything. Way better than the Chinese stuff currently sold everyplace.
 
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