Remove the electric motor, and use a small gasoline
powered motor.  They don't have this problem.

-----Original Message-----
From:   Matt Calder [SMTP:calder@STAT.COLOSTATE.EDU]
Sent:   Tuesday, July 14, 1998 4:11 PM
To:     PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject:        [OT] It's hot and my fan is broke.

        Sorry for the off topic question, but it is truly only a sign of
respect for the knowledge on this list, and also because it is 100+
degrees and I am going bonkers.
        I am in a small room with several heat spewing computers on a very
warm Colorado summer day. The floor standing fan in the room with me keeps
turning off every five minutes. Off-on-off-on, the temperature rises
twenty degrees every time it goes off. This is not a thermostat-like
feature on the fan, it is a recent development. Does anyone know what I
can look at (I have my tools) to keep it going?

        Matt

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