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    Sweet! got a vid of that??

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    Quote Originally Posted by Torker Man View Post
    Sweet! got a vid of that??
    Not yet. I was thinking about it, but there's just me; nobody to hold the camera when I'm tearing this stuff apart. I might get the wife to use her new one.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mick View Post
    Not yet. I was thinking about it, but there's just me; nobody to hold the camera when I'm tearing this stuff apart. I might get the wife to use her new one.
    Mick how about a tri pod? Hit record run like the d i ckens and drop the forks. Oh don't forget to yell " Action"
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    That's an idea. I've never used one.

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    Ha ha The famous writer Charles Di ckens is considered foul language on the forum.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GeorgeB View Post
    What exactly is the blower housing?
    George I will guide you through this question as to help you in the future!

    Question is what is a "blower housing", lets break down these two words. First we will start with Blower. A blower is of course something that blows! So we take that information and look in the unit for something that would blow air . As we can see inmost all dryers there is a squirrel cage fan. Ah this must be the blower! Okay we found that now for the second word, '"housing", we know a housing is were something resides. Yes? If you answered yes pat yourself on the back! Now if the housing houses the blower It is simple to figure just wear it is.

    I hope this helped you and maybe also help you to be able to break down other mechanical terms in the future.

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    So injunjoe what you are telling me is a good news--bad news thing...Bad news is I have squirrels living in my dryer, but the good news is they are in a cage. The wife is not going to be impressed.
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    The wife is not going to be impressed.
    Yea cause she's gonna have to feed the squirrels to keep the dryer running,,, You can tell her, I don't want to,,,lol
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    Ah boy I see your point. A Squirrel cage fan is a fan so nicknamed................ "Blower wheel"
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    Another option to finding change is removing the fins inside the dryer drum (on the dryer drums that have removeable fins). Once I saw a coin stuck between the fin and the drum and removed that fin (removed screws on outside of drum) and all others. Found several coins. Have done that to all the drums since and have found coins two more times.

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    Quote Originally Posted by injunjoe View Post
    George I will guide you through this question as to help you in the future!

    Question is what is a "blower housing", lets break down these two words. First we will start with Blower. A blower is of course something that blows! So we take that information and look in the unit for something that would blow air . As we can see inmost all dryers there is a squirrel cage fan. Ah this must be the blower! Okay we found that now for the second word, '"housing", we know a housing is were something resides. Yes? If you answered yes pat yourself on the back! Now if the housing houses the blower It is simple to figure just wear it is.

    I hope this helped you and maybe also help you to be able to break down other mechanical terms in the future.

    Good luck;
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    2nd that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mechanic688 View Post
    Some people use the drums to throw small metal into. Keeps stuff contained that way,,
    Thats awesome, never thought of that! Got one sitting in the lot at work that im gonna do that with. Thanks man.

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    Might be worth mentioning - -- - some yards only want copper wound motors so considering most are AL wound might not even be worth the time


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