Hi Campers,
My wife and I were traveling from Michigan to Arizona for the winter several months ago. When we stopped for the night in Texas I noticed that a blade was broken on our ceiling fan. Did a little looking and couldn't find one locally so I just took what was left of the broken one off and the opposing fan blade too. That way it was a two bladed fan that could still be run if we wanted to run it, although we rarely use it.
I was trying to figure out how it broke. The slides clear it by a few inches so it didn't appear to be that. We did travel over some pretty crappy roads on the toll road in Oklahoma and paid $32 for the privilege of doing that and I thought maybe it was just he bumpy roads.
We made it to Arizona and spent a couple of months there. When we went to leave and I was closing the slides I heard a noise that sounded like something breaking but didn't see anything broken. Later that evening we stopped and when I opened the slides there was another piece of a fan blade laying on the floor.
When I went to take the blade off it was loose. It appears that the screws came loose and that let the blade droop enough that when I went to close the slides the slide caught the blade and broke it.
You don't need to climb on anything to check them for tightness. Just take something and push lightly upward on the blades. You will feel it if they are loose.
Now the search for new blades continues. My wife ordered some blades from Amazon but they were too dark so we sent them back.
My wife and I were traveling from Michigan to Arizona for the winter several months ago. When we stopped for the night in Texas I noticed that a blade was broken on our ceiling fan. Did a little looking and couldn't find one locally so I just took what was left of the broken one off and the opposing fan blade too. That way it was a two bladed fan that could still be run if we wanted to run it, although we rarely use it.
I was trying to figure out how it broke. The slides clear it by a few inches so it didn't appear to be that. We did travel over some pretty crappy roads on the toll road in Oklahoma and paid $32 for the privilege of doing that and I thought maybe it was just he bumpy roads.
We made it to Arizona and spent a couple of months there. When we went to leave and I was closing the slides I heard a noise that sounded like something breaking but didn't see anything broken. Later that evening we stopped and when I opened the slides there was another piece of a fan blade laying on the floor.
When I went to take the blade off it was loose. It appears that the screws came loose and that let the blade droop enough that when I went to close the slides the slide caught the blade and broke it.
You don't need to climb on anything to check them for tightness. Just take something and push lightly upward on the blades. You will feel it if they are loose.
Now the search for new blades continues. My wife ordered some blades from Amazon but they were too dark so we sent them back.
