I really appreciate your help. My cyclone was squeaking too much for sanity. I took part the motor, lubed the moving parts, and now it is cherry. Aloha, and thank you.
Took mine apart to clean it. Use high flow air to clean all the dust out and I accidentally cut one side of the live wire I soldered the wire back together, plugged it in pushed the button the powered on and got nothing. Is there some kind of switched that trips that I can reset or do I have to replace the chip or switch or whatever because the other fan I got is way too quiet I need a lot of noise to help me sleep and I’ve been trying to get this thing to work for the past 18 hours now.
My lasko floor fan issue is after taking apart and cleaning it, the blade will spin freely when you manually spin it but once I power fan on the blade will not spin and when I try to manually spin the blade with power on the blade feels as if it's being blocked and won't allow me to even spin the blade manually.
My fan wasn’t working as good as it did, and I usually wiped the dust off until I realized how much fuzz and dust was behind the motor and I was getting very frustrated I couldn’t figure out how to pop off the blades🤣
My Cyclone failed 2 days ago, so I went to the big box store for a replacement. No stock of the cyclone, but they did have the Lasko 20" plain jane box fan which I did purchase and brought home. It is not nearly so versatile, plus, on a wood floor, the unit walks itself counter clockwise and does not stay where you want it. I am very tempted to open it up and see if the motor in the new box fan could serve as a replacement in my failed cyclone motor.
The motors are probably the same physical size, but the motor used in the Cyclone is considerably more powerful. The Cyclone also shipped with a better blade than the box fans.
@@JordanU Thanks for the reply. The LASKO box fan I purchased last week has exactly the same 5 blade fan as the Cyclone. I believe they did an update. However, I have decided to just purchase a new Cyclone and return my new box fan. Lasko certainly did not have repair in mind when they designed these fans.
What's really insane is the owners' manual on newer fans says clean with the vacuum or wipe the dust off the outside. You are not supposed to disassemble them to clean the blades anymore either! I thought it was something stupid Midea was saying in the manual for the Pelonis fan I got delivered yesterday (and yes, I'm going to disassemble it to clean the blade when needed. Lasko is saying the same thing. I also checked to see if it only applied to the models with remote controls, but no, even standard three speed rotary control models have that warning, do not disassemble them. This even applies to the ones that you have to assemble out of the box! Lasko, however mentions washing grilles on their table fans and pedestal fans still, but Midea says "When the fan was assembled, the rotor blade guard shall not be taken off anymore" The also say "The rotor guard shall not be dissembbled/opened to clean the rotor blades." I've included the typos.
The companies today intentionally make products to not last more than a few seasons at most. It's called 'planned obsolescence'. It's hypocritical and very terrible.
I recently had an even worse failure mode with one of these. I found it in the trash and for some reason the cord to it was cut. I put a new cord on and plugged it in then pressed the power button and the electronics board blew up into sparks and it released a lot of smoke and almost caught fire, I unplugged it immediately and took it outside, I now have it wired directly to the medium speed and it works fine now. I'm gonna end up either buying a new electronics board or putting a mechanical switch into it.
@@JordanU The features that electronic controls provide are actually quite decent in some cases, remote controllability and timed operation among them. However, the electronics are usually built to a cost that renders them ticking time bombs in terms of reliability and longevity. Good idea with questionable execution. Mechanical switches, while many times more reliable, are not completely immune to failure either. Carbonization and/or oxidization of the contacts in cheaper switches may lead to failure modes such as melting or burning.
@@CorollaChronicles Oxidization of a mechanical control is easily repaired. Usually when an electronics control set fails, the repair is borderline impossible.
That motor definitely has a lot of dust in it I am honestly not surprised that it quit. I’m sure who ever had this fan before had it stored in some dusty storage room for a long time.
Wow jodan the motor is terribly caked up badly I'm almost certain there will be a part two to this servicing it and i can't to see that one ... good video bro and i enjoyed it.
7:35: “I’ll finagle this off camera”. My brother in Christ, I am watching this because I don’t know how to take it apart. Why did you do that off camera?
Because it took forever and this video was not intended to be a tutorial. If I didn't cut it out, I'd get complaint after complaint that the video is too long and bland. I do the best I can, but will never be able to please everyone.
They have screws. The blades have a hole in the center plate off to the side a bit. Spin the blades and look through the hole till you see the screw below it. You will need a philips screwdriver long enough to go through the hole in order to reach the screws but thats how you get the blades off. If you watch this video you can see the hole on the center plate of the blades. Repeat to get the blades off the motor but the screws are a tiny bit harder to get to but it is done in the same manner.
whew... ive got a similar model of fan that failed recently, and i found this video while looking up a potential fix i took mine apart and, lo and behold, there was a truly hideous amount of hair wrapped around the motor shaft, and a bunch of dust further inside.absolutely no chance at this thing working again, im fairly sure... time to get a different one, i guess
I had a mcmillian succumb to this death we cleaned it but it had suffered a overheat failure we tested it after cleaning just for it to run fine for a a few seconds then ut began to pour out smoke and died
There have been a lot of McMillians lost to this kind of neglect. The thermal overload will keep it safe for a while, but ultimately the increased operating temperature will degrade the insulation on the windings resulting in some kind of catastrophic failure eventually.
I had this series, there is a third button (middle power) missing. You had one (power) in the middle and then L - fan speed, and R - timer. If memory serves. A standard LASKO pedestal fan remote control should be able to start it if the problem is the missing power button, the sensor is right below the buttons. Good luck.
Ah yes, the suffocation failure mode. These fans have a somewhat bad rear motor housing design, because they don't really allow you to easily see how blocked the motor is, unlike on their box fans. Last year, I brought home a trash-picked Lasko Wind Machine that suffered the same type of failure....although it still had signs of continuity.
It is somewhat of a poor design since it clogs so quickly. I tend to think they probably did that intentionally. The box fans are more visible, but I still doubt how many people would actually clean it out.
That's got to be one of the worst motors I have ever seen in terms of dust buildup! As for the overall fan, nothing has beat my Toastmaster! That thing was so filthy when I found it that it literally moved no air! It was about as much dust that was on that motor, but covering the entire front grill! I have to say that I have never seen one of those fused plugs blow before. Have you? Also, in addition to older motors taking more abuse, they also generally had bigger and more plentiful vent holes on them which I have found helps to prevent some of the buildup that you saw on this one.
This is one of the worst motors I’ve seen, but what’s weird about this one is the rest of the fan was relatively clean. No, I never have seen one of those fuse plugs go out.
@@JordanU I've had seen an Atlantic Breeze/Midea fan and it had that much dust on the motor. It still ran but not long enough before it starting popping and sparked a flame!
Speaking of the older motors, I have three Lakewood/Kmart box fans that are at least 40 years old, three vintage Galaxy fans (blue and brown versions), Panasonic 5-way oscillating fan with blue blades, an unbranded pedestal fan from the mid 80's, two unbranded desk fans (12" Cool Time, Calfax Inc-Kuo Horng brown blade, 16" Cool Time, unbranded with dark blue blades), antique metal fans, and still work like day one. My mom's galaxy pedestal fan that we bought in walmart in 2009 started making clicking noises, so we ended up falling back to vintage. It's sad that the modern Lasko fans, along with other modern brands, like Holmes, Pelonis, etc., don't even last closer to five years. I even have a 100+ year old Westinghouse whirlwind fan (circa 1917) and also works like day one, despite replacing the power cord.#TheyJustDontMakeThemLikeTheyUsedTo
Very informative Video! Do you by chance know of a replacement motor for an older Lakewood "Kool Operator" 20"? Windings failed although the motor was not all that dirty. Thank you.
I saw one of these cyclones at a Home Depot some years back and it blew a strong breeze. If it wasnt all flippin plastic I'd buy one. I dont support products that create waste. Do you know about a certain individual who shall remain nameless making threats about putting strikes on channels? Has he done anything to your channel and can I put my channel videos back to public. Hes put two false copyright claims and I had to private anything so he doesnt win the battle. Hes not gonna do crap right.
While I don’t support the wasteful Chinese product movement either, I have found these last quite a while if you blow the motors out with compressed air regularly. Send me an eMail about it and I’ll fill you in (eMail address located on the About tab). I don’t want to give any information on a public forum where he may see it. The plot is a lot thicker than it was during last year’s fiasco.
I cleaned up an entire fan and right after that I seen this video and I had to dismantle it again and it was covered with dust just like this one idk how it didn’t fail lol.
I have got plenty of fans out of the garbage box fans table fans and other fans motors full of crap most of the time I can clean it out and get it to work
Be careful and you must feel the copper coils and make sure they're not loose because apperently the Cool Breeze I found from early 90s had huge amounts of dust which most likely affected the insulation and not having ties contributed to its death
True, I’m not gonna argue with you about that either. I remember that Lasko ultraforce 3700 you fixed up that [almost] had the same situation happen. It’s outrageous how people can’t even maintain their own fans.
anyone know where i can get a replacement motor for this ?
Did you find one?
Thanks, and God bless you!
@@michaelboyle1983 Hey no i haven’t yet it’s still . I should look again
I really appreciate your help. My cyclone was squeaking too much for sanity. I took part the motor, lubed the moving parts, and now it is cherry. Aloha, and thank you.
Glad the video was helpful.
Took mine apart to clean it. Use high flow air to clean all the dust out and I accidentally cut one side of the live wire I soldered the wire back together, plugged it in pushed the button the powered on and got nothing. Is there some kind of switched that trips that I can reset or do I have to replace the chip or switch or whatever because the other fan I got is way too quiet I need a lot of noise to help me sleep and I’ve been trying to get this thing to work for the past 18 hours now.
I don't know what wire you're talking about, if it was a lead from the windings, the reconnection process isn't as simple as just resoldering.
My lasko floor fan issue is after taking apart and cleaning it, the blade will spin freely when you manually spin it but once I power fan on the blade will not spin and when I try to manually spin the blade with power on the blade feels as if it's being blocked and won't allow me to even spin the blade manually.
The bearings may not be aligned properly. Try striking the shaft with a screw driver handle a few times.
Lasko Needs to put more air holes in the back of this fan. And at 2:10 Between the 2 buttons thats the ON/OFF button
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0:43 what do you consider neglect/misuse?
Never cleaning it, as in this case.
@@JordanU fair enough
My fan wasn’t working as good as it did, and I usually wiped the dust off until I realized how much fuzz and dust was behind the motor and I was getting very frustrated I couldn’t figure out how to pop off the blades🤣
Not good.
My Cyclone failed 2 days ago, so I went to the big box store for a replacement. No stock of the cyclone, but they did have the Lasko 20" plain jane box fan which I did purchase and brought home. It is not nearly so versatile, plus, on a wood floor, the unit walks itself counter clockwise and does not stay where you want it. I am very tempted to open it up and see if the motor in the new box fan could serve as a replacement in my failed cyclone motor.
The motors are probably the same physical size, but the motor used in the Cyclone is considerably more powerful. The Cyclone also shipped with a better blade than the box fans.
@@JordanU Thanks for the reply. The LASKO box fan I purchased last week has exactly the same 5 blade fan as the Cyclone. I believe they did an update. However, I have decided to just purchase a new Cyclone and return my new box fan. Lasko certainly did not have repair in mind when they designed these fans.
@@taberav The blade may look the same, but the pitch of the blades and the thickness of the plastic is not the same.
What's really insane is the owners' manual on newer fans says clean with the vacuum or wipe the dust off the outside. You are not supposed to disassemble them to clean the blades anymore either! I thought it was something stupid Midea was saying in the manual for the Pelonis fan I got delivered yesterday (and yes, I'm going to disassemble it to clean the blade when needed. Lasko is saying the same thing. I also checked to see if it only applied to the models with remote controls, but no, even standard three speed rotary control models have that warning, do not disassemble them. This even applies to the ones that you have to assemble out of the box!
Lasko, however mentions washing grilles on their table fans and pedestal fans still, but Midea says "When the fan was assembled, the rotor blade guard shall not be taken off anymore" The also say "The rotor guard shall not be dissembbled/opened to clean the rotor blades." I've included the typos.
The companies today intentionally make products to not last more than a few seasons at most. It's called 'planned obsolescence'. It's hypocritical and very terrible.
Hi, thank you as I may be purchasing one of these models. How exactly did you get the fan blade off? Thank you!
You've probably already figured it out, but if you haven't and still want to know, it just pulls off.
God bless you!
I have a cyclone plus that failed, how do I fix it??
did it work after the clean up of that dust?
I cleaned and oiled my motor inside and outbut my fan still isn't working its frustrating as hell
HI jordan thank you for the video, man how do you get the blade off, I'm having a hard time taking it out.
It just pulls off.
I recently had an even worse failure mode with one of these. I found it in the trash and for some reason the cord to it was cut. I put a new cord on and plugged it in then pressed the power button and the electronics board blew up into sparks and it released a lot of smoke and almost caught fire, I unplugged it immediately and took it outside, I now have it wired directly to the medium speed and it works fine now. I'm gonna end up either buying a new electronics board or putting a mechanical switch into it.
Add that to the list of reasons why I don't like electronic controls. Replace it with a mechanical switch, much more reliable.
@@JordanU that was my plan and yeah, that's another reason to not like them.
@@JordanU The features that electronic controls provide are actually quite decent in some cases, remote controllability and timed operation among them. However, the electronics are usually built to a cost that renders them ticking time bombs in terms of reliability and longevity. Good idea with questionable execution.
Mechanical switches, while many times more reliable, are not completely immune to failure either. Carbonization and/or oxidization of the contacts in cheaper switches may lead to failure modes such as melting or burning.
@@CorollaChronicles Oxidization of a mechanical control is easily repaired. Usually when an electronics control set fails, the repair is borderline impossible.
@Delicious Don Turbulento That doesn't make sense.
I like the box fans better than these. Don’t these have the same motor and blades anyway?
That motor definitely has a lot of dust in it I am honestly not surprised that it quit. I’m sure who ever had this fan before had it stored in some dusty storage room for a long time.
That is not from a dusty storage that is what happens when you don't clean the motor
I suspect this dust accumulation was from use, not storage.
If it was in storage not being used there wouldn’t be hardly any dust the motor is what sucks it in
Wow jodan the motor is terribly caked up badly I'm almost certain there will be a part two to this servicing it and i can't to see that one ... good video bro and i enjoyed it.
True it is. Unfortunately there will be no part 2 on this one, it's too far gone to be worth salvaging.
@@JordanU lol salving wow too much work well you can just part it out.
7:35: “I’ll finagle this off camera”. My brother in Christ, I am watching this because I don’t know how to take it apart. Why did you do that off camera?
Because it took forever and this video was not intended to be a tutorial. If I didn't cut it out, I'd get complaint after complaint that the video is too long and bland. I do the best I can, but will never be able to please everyone.
how did you remove the blades? thank you
HOWWWWWWW OMG cant get that part out
They just pull off. Sometimes it takes a fair bit of force.
They have screws. The blades have a hole in the center plate off to the side a bit. Spin the blades and look through the hole till you see the screw below it. You will need a philips screwdriver long enough to go through the hole in order to reach the screws but thats how you get the blades off. If you watch this video you can see the hole on the center plate of the blades. Repeat to get the blades off the motor but the screws are a tiny bit harder to get to but it is done in the same manner.
@silvermercury756 the fan blade just pulls off. You don't have to remove any screws.
God bless you!
How did you get the blades off?
It just pulls off, the blade is only press fit onto the shaft.
You should try lasko air flexor fan.. it has a 10 inch blade but a full size box fan motor.. it moves lots of air..
I've never been able to justify the high price.
whew... ive got a similar model of fan that failed recently, and i found this video while looking up a potential fix
i took mine apart and, lo and behold, there was a truly hideous amount of hair wrapped around the motor shaft, and a bunch of dust further inside.absolutely no chance at this thing working again, im fairly sure... time to get a different one, i guess
If you gave it a good cleaning, perhaps replaced the thermal fuse, it probably would run again.
Failure mean no fix is possible right? Dang.
Anything can be fixed, but this particular case was outside of a worthwhile scope.
@@JordanU I Was hoping to fix mine but I think unfortunately this is the cause of death for mine. 😔 Thank you for the video.
I have lasko cyclone fan and it nice and powerful
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I had a mcmillian succumb to this death we cleaned it but it had suffered a overheat failure we tested it after cleaning just for it to run fine for a a few seconds then ut began to pour out smoke and died
There have been a lot of McMillians lost to this kind of neglect. The thermal overload will keep it safe for a while, but ultimately the increased operating temperature will degrade the insulation on the windings resulting in some kind of catastrophic failure eventually.
@@JordanU yeah I do also have a video of it failing
I had this series, there is a third button (middle power) missing. You had one (power) in the middle and then L - fan speed, and R - timer. If memory serves. A standard LASKO pedestal fan remote control should be able to start it if the problem is the missing power button, the sensor is right below the buttons. Good luck.
Thanks for letting me know. It does look like there was an RF receiver in there, but I don't have any of the remotes anyways.
Muchas gracias
See that hole on top of the blade is to insert the screw driver for the screw under the blade. Daaa. Even I 65 yo woman knows that.
I don't know what you're talking about. There's no set screw on this blade.
Ah yes, the suffocation failure mode. These fans have a somewhat bad rear motor housing design, because they don't really allow you to easily see how blocked the motor is, unlike on their box fans. Last year, I brought home a trash-picked Lasko Wind Machine that suffered the same type of failure....although it still had signs of continuity.
It is somewhat of a poor design since it clogs so quickly. I tend to think they probably did that intentionally. The box fans are more visible, but I still doubt how many people would actually clean it out.
That's got to be one of the worst motors I have ever seen in terms of dust buildup! As for the overall fan, nothing has beat my Toastmaster! That thing was so filthy when I found it that it literally moved no air! It was about as much dust that was on that motor, but covering the entire front grill! I have to say that I have never seen one of those fused plugs blow before. Have you? Also, in addition to older motors taking more abuse, they also generally had bigger and more plentiful vent holes on them which I have found helps to prevent some of the buildup that you saw on this one.
This is one of the worst motors I’ve seen, but what’s weird about this one is the rest of the fan was relatively clean. No, I never have seen one of those fuse plugs go out.
@@JordanU I've had seen an Atlantic Breeze/Midea fan and it had that much dust on the motor. It still ran but not long enough before it starting popping and sparked a flame!
@@drakesessions3544 The extra heat from the dust accumulation will eventually deteriorate the insulation on the windings and cause such a failure.
Speaking of the older motors, I have three Lakewood/Kmart box fans that are at least 40 years old, three vintage Galaxy fans (blue and brown versions), Panasonic 5-way oscillating fan with blue blades, an unbranded pedestal fan from the mid 80's, two unbranded desk fans (12" Cool Time, Calfax Inc-Kuo Horng brown blade, 16" Cool Time, unbranded with dark blue blades), antique metal fans, and still work like day one. My mom's galaxy pedestal fan that we bought in walmart in 2009 started making clicking noises, so we ended up falling back to vintage. It's sad that the modern Lasko fans, along with other modern brands, like Holmes, Pelonis, etc., don't even last closer to five years. I even have a 100+ year old Westinghouse whirlwind fan (circa 1917) and also works like day one, despite replacing the power cord.#TheyJustDontMakeThemLikeTheyUsedTo
I have that same kind of lasko cyclone fan I bought one at my local good will
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Oh ok so how did he removed the fan blades...???
They pull off.
Oh my that poor innocent lasko fan needs a new owner to clean fix inspect refurbish repair restore and sanitize it I bet that fan will work again
The motor has spoiled.
Very informative Video! Do you by chance know of a replacement motor for an older Lakewood "Kool Operator" 20"? Windings failed although the motor was not all that dirty. Thank you.
You may be able to retrofit some kind of attic fan motor in depending on the age of the fan.
@@JordanU Thank you.
I don’t like these new lasko fans at all. The older ones were definitely whole lot better and lasted 30 years
I agree.
I saw one of these cyclones at a Home Depot some years back and it blew a strong breeze. If it wasnt all flippin plastic I'd buy one. I dont support products that create waste.
Do you know about a certain individual who shall remain nameless making threats about putting strikes on channels? Has he done anything to your channel and can I put my channel videos back to public. Hes put two false copyright claims and I had to private anything so he doesnt win the battle. Hes not gonna do crap right.
While I don’t support the wasteful Chinese product movement either, I have found these last quite a while if you blow the motors out with compressed air regularly.
Send me an eMail about it and I’ll fill you in (eMail address located on the About tab). I don’t want to give any information on a public forum where he may see it. The plot is a lot thicker than it was during last year’s fiasco.
@@JordanU Ok sounds good. Thanks
I cleaned up an entire fan and right after that I seen this video and I had to dismantle it again and it was covered with dust just like this one idk how it didn’t fail lol.
They'll run for a while like this, but everything has it's threshold.
Yep I have one to
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So, how DID you get the blades off?
They just pull off.
I usually see that much dust on the modern lasko fans and they usually are dead
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Got this fan that my kid uses, just checked it and it was caked in there. Air cleaned out..
Mine has a knob numbered 0 1 2 and 3
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Did you dust it all off anyway? :)
if my motor looks like this but holes on motor i just going clean it
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Before I even clicked on the video I believed it is the internal thermal fuse.
Classic failure in these.
I have got plenty of fans out of the garbage box fans table fans and other fans motors full of crap most of the time I can clean it out and get it to work
That’s what I usually do as well, I think this will be the first one I deem a lost cause.
Be careful and you must feel the copper coils and make sure they're not loose because apperently the Cool Breeze I found from early 90s had huge amounts of dust which most likely affected the insulation and not having ties contributed to its death
Dust kills electronics
True.
Did you get it running again? 🙃
No, it's not worth the time.
Remove the front grill to access the two screws
What two screws?
They probably didn't clean the motor because they couldn't get the blade off.
That’s a possibility, though I tend to think they just didn’t know it had to be cleaned.
missed the obvious screw holes on the blade. Line up remove
Good
No, it’s not good.
Are you going to fix and repair it
No
Try cleaning the front and back plastic grills the blade spinner and the motor it's how I fixed my fan
Me all of my lasko fans work excellent I find good working lasko box fans to the trash I clean all the dust and they work excellent
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Lol 😂
My Lasko 3733 is beat to hell and works still
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This is just another prime example of “China Pride” mixed with laziness. 🤷♂️
I’d contribute this failure 100% to laziness, even a quality vintage fan would fail after years of running with too much dust in the motor.
True, I’m not gonna argue with you about that either. I remember that Lasko ultraforce 3700 you fixed up that [almost] had the same situation happen. It’s outrageous how people can’t even maintain their own fans.
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Find something constructive to do with your time.
kjhg gang
Lol