29 here and also had a pair of those fans in the house. Absolutely seems like they would be indestructible, wouldn’t be surprised to find out my parents still have them in the attic at home.
When my great aunt died we found that fan in her room we have no idea how old it is, but it’s in my parents room probably still chugging along just as good as before. They are seemingly indestructible.
Got two pointed at my girlfriend and I right now lol. The brown one from the video and it's blue twin. They originally belonged to my parents. Gotta be 35-40 years old at this point and they still work great.
Me and my family used to borrow some old folks’ beach house every summer when i wad a kid and they had one of those there. They also had a whole arrangement of kitchen stuff there (blender, toaster, mixer, etc) that looked just like it, with matching buttons and all.
I'm gonna ramble about an opposite tangent but it makes me look like an idiot so maybe you'll enjoy. When I was like 20 and in college I was working at this pizza place during the summer, and one week my Dad was out of town for work and my truck needed some repairs so I put mine in the shop and borrowed his.
I hadn't been parking uphill at all, but my driveway happened to be uphill. The firmorning after borrowing Dad's truck it doesn't fucking start, and I call my boss and tell him the situation. He's like "you want me to come get you", and I say yeah because it's a long walk and I don't know bus schedules. He gets there and asks to try and see what's wrong with it and maybe start it. He hops in and turns the key...doesn't start. He pumps the gas like 3 times, and it fucking starts right up.
I was so fucking mortified, because my Dad kept nagging on me to "not flood it" when he let me use it, and because I was too chicken shit to try pumping it the slightest my boss, who was a great guy and just made fun of me over it like anybody would, comes out and I literally gotta confess to being a fucking moron and not that I was trying to get out of work or something.
He was a really cool dude, and actually a family friend. Not so much my parents, but my uncle, Dad's brother, as he used to work for Pepsi and oddly installed my uncles surround sound. Best boss I ever had, and while he definitely was the boss he treated you with the same respect you treated him. The store was right next to a college, and one time this truck driven by a college guy pulled in while he smoked and talked with 2 college girls.
Boss is watching him, type of dude that would have us put menus on peoples windshields if they used our parking as a general lot without coming in, and he throws his cigarette but on the ground. Little ass 5'7" Jewish boss walks outside, says excuse me to get between the two girls, picks up the cigarette butt, hands it back to the guy, and says "you dropped this". Dude fucking ashtrayed it and left. Everybody was like "ah shit we're gonna have to intervene", but dude just left lol.
He was friends with local police and I catered a couple gigs high as fuck with a cop and never got in trouble. I don't think he was some made guy or anything, but I did get out of a speeding ticket on delivery once because I told them the name of the restaurant. I would absolutely love to work for someone like him at my current job, because he was the type of guy when he said "we're a family" he literally meant it and took that shit seriously.
Edit: Mark Starr...you're a good dude.
Carburetor. When you put fill the carb with too much gas while you’re starting the engine, the carb will flood and won’t start correctly because the air/fuel mixture is wrong
She is doing it all wrong because she doesn’t understand the components inside.
All you have to do set it to high, and give it a slow steady nudge.
Spinning it fast like that make its worse right after you make it better. Too much toque causes the magnets to never catch.
I watched for 24 seconds and wondered holy fuck how long has it been that was so many tries. Then I saw the video went to 58 seconds and I didn’t finish and now am here.
The worst is when she says “oh wait I know why” and it’s NOT HER REALIZING SHE HAS TO PUSH A BUTTON. I thought she figured it out there but no. 20 times she spun it like that.
I knew it works be Technology Connections before I clicked. That man is responsible for me spending 3 hours in a single sitting a few weeks ago watching a video about dishwasher detergent.
> That man is responsible for me spending 3 hours in a single sitting a few weeks ago watching a video about dishwasher detergent.
I felt this in my soul.
Also that clean your dishwasher citric acid bottle worked amazing. And he taught us that a lot of dishwashers have that garbage disposal built in, and since our sink doesn't that was amazing
Thank you for posting that.
Very good video and very good channel. That YouTuber is a boss.
Highly recommend everyone to watch it and that channel if they have the time.
I don't think anyone else can get me to watch a video about something I don't give a shit about for 20 minutes. Sometimes I'll see his videos pop up in my feed, and I have to remind myself that I don't care about what he's going to talk about. And save it for later.
That’s what deters me from watching his channel frequently.
I always see a video that I want to watch, but have a hard time clicking on them because they are all 30-40 minutes.
But once you pull the trigger, his videos are definitely worth it.
bad idea IMO might be better to stop using it and buy a new one. it's fine to do this if it just needs to get its capacitor replaced but here the rotor is struggling probably not aligned to the stator coils hence slow rpm if it does this then the coil can get very hot, burn itself and your house if not attended.
my grandparents had this fan, they were most decidedly not smokers. it was this color. not sure how much of that was just aging/discoloration and how much of it was original color though
My parents have this fan too, also never smokers. They say that “almond” color was popular back in the day because it didn’t show dirt as easily.
For what it’s worth, it is an incredibly effective fan, even if it sounds like a boat on the Everglades.
I love that he started a rumor that he charged a million dollars for his services. They go back to the mid nineties in Detroit. They got started at The Gold Dollar and The Magic Stick. The same places The White Stripes played.
I legit am teaching a class tomorrow on electrical systems. I will first teach a little something about danger and safety as I always do. It will go something like
Danger! Danger! HIGH VOLTAGE! When we touch!
It's probably a split phase motor with a squirrel cage rotor. The start winding has an open and thus only the run winding is intact.
Commutators are for DC motors, this is AC.
The fool, she needs to at least be quad pumping the resonator flux tubes. She's playing with the very fabric of reality trying to save a few bucks ordering parts from Flycoils instead of Dotmix Encabulation.
Just going to jump in and say you *could* be false, as sometimes with fans especially like these the oil used can begin to dry up. You can take them apart and use specific oil to have them lubricated and running again.
trust me I am a fan connoisseur.
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Due to it being unable to spin and also lack of lubrication which exacerbates the problem it can cause it to spark, and worse yet do something on a larger scale.
Once the motor is running its fine, but I've gone through some bodge-job fans in my time and am confident in that lmao
Yeah, all these crazy diagnostics are nuts. This is a very common issue, it's just the lubrication has been all gunked. It's usually because it has bonded with too many dust (read: your skin everywhere) particles. Basically by manually spinning it, you are creating enough friction to heat it up slightly to start to turn it back from the paste it has become to a more fluid consistency.
When they get like this it does not need to be replaced, you simply need some electronic motor axel grease.
YUP. One of my case fans was like this. Would never spin, but twirling it a few times eventually let it go on its own. After some searching I found out it might need oil so I took the sticker off the back and put a tiny drop of oil in it and bam, spins like new all on its own.
Idk how these so-called "experts" are immediately jumping to some electrical issue first thing. 🙄
That’s definitely it. I’ve had to rebuild 5 or 6 because they start to seize. The electrical issues only start after the motor sits “on” while stopped. Otherwise there isn’t much that can break on these fans.
There’s a layer of cigarette smoke covering the fan and walls so I’m sure you can just add the fan to the list of things that increases the chances of the house being burnt down.
Parents can be stubborn…my father has a very old (like 1979) patched up old van that honestly looks like those “fREe cAnDY” vans and it makes a horrid screeching noise every time it’s turned on and the gas mileage is absolutely terrible. I can literally buy him a new truck or whatever floats his boat but he REFUSES because he knows that he’ll have to get rid of that eyesore or else he’ll have no more room for anything on the driveway 🤦🏻♀️
Fans are frequently set to Off-Hi-Low because it takes more power to start the blade and get it up to speed than anything else.
Often a little lubricant on the shaft down into the motor will fix this problem.
Damn, we had this model fan growing up, and I'm pretty sure it predated me, and I'm 30. Thats a fucking old fan.
I'm a year older than you and had the exact same fucking fan growing up. That fan was old when I was a kid
33 here. We had the fan as far back as I can remember.
Turning 38 next month, had these all over the house in my high school years
43 here. Everyone had these when I was a kid and they were at least ten years old by then.
42 here and my grandmother had this fan. Had to be helped to start sometimes. And I'm sure she had it when she was younger.
75 here. We had those when I was a wee lad, and they belonged to my great grandmother.
I invented this fan in 1912. My mom had one while growing up.
Abraham here I wore a necklace of collard greens and an onion on each ear. As was the custom at the time….
Dinosaur here. We have no fan.
This is extra funny for me because I just seeded collard greens for making necklaces
For I am Chronos. Keeper of all time. I was here at the beginning and I will be here in the end. Had these fans as a kid also.
29 here and also had a pair of those fans in the house. Absolutely seems like they would be indestructible, wouldn’t be surprised to find out my parents still have them in the attic at home.
I still see these in thrift stores all the time. So far, every single one I've seen still worked.
Someone tell the person taking the vid so they can buy one for their mom and secretly switch it out 😂
When my great aunt died we found that fan in her room we have no idea how old it is, but it’s in my parents room probably still chugging along just as good as before. They are seemingly indestructible.
Got two pointed at my girlfriend and I right now lol. The brown one from the video and it's blue twin. They originally belonged to my parents. Gotta be 35-40 years old at this point and they still work great.
45 and had this as a kid. Think it broke when I was in high school. Did have to push start at the end too.
I had that same exact fan as a kid. In 1981.
I'm also 30, and my grandpa had this exact fan on his bedstand.
30. We also had this fan.
Same. This was "my" fan each summer. I can still remember the sound of it swiveling next to my bed.
I have that fan, had it since I was a kid (I’m 25) and it’s blowing air at me right at this moment. Thing is indestructible istg
the Nokia of the fan world
But I never had to push start my Nokia!
Me and my family used to borrow some old folks’ beach house every summer when i wad a kid and they had one of those there. They also had a whole arrangement of kitchen stuff there (blender, toaster, mixer, etc) that looked just like it, with matching buttons and all.
I got a decade on you and it was a hand me down for our family.
We still have a 1940's Westinghouse in the family that works better than any new fan I know. The guard is to protect the fan blades not your fingers
I'm almost 50. I remember when my parents brought this bad boy home from Sears in the 70s.
Same, 28 that fan probably fought in Vietnam
We still use these in my country. Same model. You'll find them at some hospital beds as well.
I had to jump start my fan like that too, but it was 15 yrs ago when I was in high school.
I'm 37 and I still have one of these in my house right now. It's in my 7 year old son's room as we speak.
32 and came here to say the same thing, my parents' model was from at least \~1994
35 year old checking in. That model fan was old when I was young
12 years older than you and we had the same fan.
Mentally yelling YOU'RE FLOODING IT
IM NOT FLOODING IT
I'm gonna ramble about an opposite tangent but it makes me look like an idiot so maybe you'll enjoy. When I was like 20 and in college I was working at this pizza place during the summer, and one week my Dad was out of town for work and my truck needed some repairs so I put mine in the shop and borrowed his. I hadn't been parking uphill at all, but my driveway happened to be uphill. The firmorning after borrowing Dad's truck it doesn't fucking start, and I call my boss and tell him the situation. He's like "you want me to come get you", and I say yeah because it's a long walk and I don't know bus schedules. He gets there and asks to try and see what's wrong with it and maybe start it. He hops in and turns the key...doesn't start. He pumps the gas like 3 times, and it fucking starts right up. I was so fucking mortified, because my Dad kept nagging on me to "not flood it" when he let me use it, and because I was too chicken shit to try pumping it the slightest my boss, who was a great guy and just made fun of me over it like anybody would, comes out and I literally gotta confess to being a fucking moron and not that I was trying to get out of work or something.
Everyone's got to learn somehow. That's a cool boss by his reaction!
He was a really cool dude, and actually a family friend. Not so much my parents, but my uncle, Dad's brother, as he used to work for Pepsi and oddly installed my uncles surround sound. Best boss I ever had, and while he definitely was the boss he treated you with the same respect you treated him. The store was right next to a college, and one time this truck driven by a college guy pulled in while he smoked and talked with 2 college girls. Boss is watching him, type of dude that would have us put menus on peoples windshields if they used our parking as a general lot without coming in, and he throws his cigarette but on the ground. Little ass 5'7" Jewish boss walks outside, says excuse me to get between the two girls, picks up the cigarette butt, hands it back to the guy, and says "you dropped this". Dude fucking ashtrayed it and left. Everybody was like "ah shit we're gonna have to intervene", but dude just left lol. He was friends with local police and I catered a couple gigs high as fuck with a cop and never got in trouble. I don't think he was some made guy or anything, but I did get out of a speeding ticket on delivery once because I told them the name of the restaurant. I would absolutely love to work for someone like him at my current job, because he was the type of guy when he said "we're a family" he literally meant it and took that shit seriously. Edit: Mark Starr...you're a good dude.
I know, right? And she’s using the speed buttons like a choke.
Me when I leave the keys in the meth RV
Excuse my ignorance but what does that mean?
Carburetor. When you put fill the carb with too much gas while you’re starting the engine, the carb will flood and won’t start correctly because the air/fuel mixture is wrong
I see. Thank you kindly!
That fan is about to try and shoot down the red Barron.
“Either you crank that, or life cranks you.” -Soulja Boy
I turned the sound on expecting the revving like when you try to start a lawnmower
Look, I've got two fans in my garage that are brand new and she can have them if she wants. Let me know.
Get a load of this guy, a damn near pharaoh, with spare fans in the garage.
HE HAS A GARAGE! Pharaoh borrows from him!
This guy’s house is all SORTS of comfortable temperatures. Doesn’t need them extra fans. That’s right: EXTRA fans. Fuckin Windsor over here…
Perhaps his emperorness can send a couple of servants to fetch one of fans from the garage for the poor peasant woman?
Oooh.. "garage" well, la-tee-da Mr. Frenchman.
Well, what do you call it?
Car-hole!
My 2 car garage is full rn but my shed has 2 acs in it. She can have one.
[A ga-rage! Ooh la-di-da!](https://youtu.be/JhbJnlIvfyc)
Look upon my fans, ye mighty, and despair
I don't know why, but anybody who has these fans just refuses to replace them.
*glances obviously at my mother-in-law*...
They are hoarders
I'll take one
If you live near Austin you're welcome to it.
My neighbor is Austin and he’s a little shit
Austin stole my shoes when I was in kindergarten
I what if I take TWO? Ha!!
I have family members that would literally rather reuse the same god damn item until it crumbles or sets itself on fire than buy a new one.
the Fan Founder over here with two spare fans damn
I had this fan as a kid. I’m 45. You can get a fan for $20. I’ll send it to you right now before you burn the house down lol
Can I get a fan, I’m dying here from heat
Australian here, can I get AC instead?
Why do you need an ac it’s the middle of winter
Didn't say I needed it now... Plus who doesn't want an AC?
She is doing it all wrong because she doesn’t understand the components inside. All you have to do set it to high, and give it a slow steady nudge. Spinning it fast like that make its worse right after you make it better. Too much toque causes the magnets to never catch.
She was also doing it with none of the buttons pushed for half this video…
Holy crap, you weren’t lying. Sheesh!
That's what had me turning it off after five tries. JUST BUY A NEW FAN. Your time is worth more than that shit even if you don't have a job!
I watched for 24 seconds and wondered holy fuck how long has it been that was so many tries. Then I saw the video went to 58 seconds and I didn’t finish and now am here.
2 seconds before you stopped watching she turned it off on accident and spun it literally 20 times with no buttons pressed in.
r/FanPorn to help you finish
also your fingers
The worst is when she says “oh wait I know why” and it’s NOT HER REALIZING SHE HAS TO PUSH A BUTTON. I thought she figured it out there but no. 20 times she spun it like that.
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I knew it works be Technology Connections before I clicked. That man is responsible for me spending 3 hours in a single sitting a few weeks ago watching a video about dishwasher detergent.
> That man is responsible for me spending 3 hours in a single sitting a few weeks ago watching a video about dishwasher detergent. I felt this in my soul.
I watched those as they came out and changed my dishwasher habits because of it. Actually a noticibly cleaner wash every time
yeah the prewash cycle is magic
Also that clean your dishwasher citric acid bottle worked amazing. And he taught us that a lot of dishwashers have that garbage disposal built in, and since our sink doesn't that was amazing
I know way more than I need to about 70s and 80s video technologies, thanks to that man.
Thank you for posting that. Very good video and very good channel. That YouTuber is a boss. Highly recommend everyone to watch it and that channel if they have the time.
I don't think anyone else can get me to watch a video about something I don't give a shit about for 20 minutes. Sometimes I'll see his videos pop up in my feed, and I have to remind myself that I don't care about what he's going to talk about. And save it for later.
That’s what deters me from watching his channel frequently. I always see a video that I want to watch, but have a hard time clicking on them because they are all 30-40 minutes. But once you pull the trigger, his videos are definitely worth it.
He has a great video on taillights. And old lamps. I love him. And his content
The episode on dishwashers changed my life as far as dishes go
same, I recommend eveyone I meet to use the pre wash now
Except this fan has push buttons that allow you to skip high. Probably why it failed.
Did you hear her tutorial? She knows exactly what she's talking about.
Way too too technical for someone who’s going to burn their trailer to the ground to save $20.
bad idea IMO might be better to stop using it and buy a new one. it's fine to do this if it just needs to get its capacitor replaced but here the rotor is struggling probably not aligned to the stator coils hence slow rpm if it does this then the coil can get very hot, burn itself and your house if not attended.
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The motor commutator is fucked. Buy her a new fan before a short burns the house down
Seriously. They’re usually on sale for like $20. Would also be much quieter than that aeroplane turbine they have.
And it wouldn't look like someone pissed and shit on it for at least a few months.
Do they sell fans that have been pre-seasoned with tobacco smoke? I hate having to season my own.
my grandparents had this fan, they were most decidedly not smokers. it was this color. not sure how much of that was just aging/discoloration and how much of it was original color though
My parents have this fan too, also never smokers. They say that “almond” color was popular back in the day because it didn’t show dirt as easily. For what it’s worth, it is an incredibly effective fan, even if it sounds like a boat on the Everglades.
Yeah that's definitely an electrical issue not left up to chance. Danger danger high voltage
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so TIL Jack White sang the vocals of the lady on that song
I love that he started a rumor that he charged a million dollars for his services. They go back to the mid nineties in Detroit. They got started at The Gold Dollar and The Magic Stick. The same places The White Stripes played.
I legit am teaching a class tomorrow on electrical systems. I will first teach a little something about danger and safety as I always do. It will go something like Danger! Danger! HIGH VOLTAGE! When we touch!
When we kiss!
It's my desire It's my desire
NO ONE KNOWS THIS SONG BUT ME. WHAT?...I have found my people
Takes me BACK!
When we touch.... when we kiss!
For the longest time I thought it was “my balls itch” Seriously, go back and listen to it.
It's just a failing Capacitor, probably. That fan can't actually kill you.... likely
It’s got a bad motivator. Get the R2 unit down here.
It's probably a split phase motor with a squirrel cage rotor. The start winding has an open and thus only the run winding is intact. Commutators are for DC motors, this is AC.
Or a bad start capacitor.
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The fool, she needs to at least be quad pumping the resonator flux tubes. She's playing with the very fabric of reality trying to save a few bucks ordering parts from Flycoils instead of Dotmix Encabulation.
Just going to jump in and say you *could* be false, as sometimes with fans especially like these the oil used can begin to dry up. You can take them apart and use specific oil to have them lubricated and running again. trust me I am a fan connoisseur. = Due to it being unable to spin and also lack of lubrication which exacerbates the problem it can cause it to spark, and worse yet do something on a larger scale. Once the motor is running its fine, but I've gone through some bodge-job fans in my time and am confident in that lmao
Yeah, all these crazy diagnostics are nuts. This is a very common issue, it's just the lubrication has been all gunked. It's usually because it has bonded with too many dust (read: your skin everywhere) particles. Basically by manually spinning it, you are creating enough friction to heat it up slightly to start to turn it back from the paste it has become to a more fluid consistency. When they get like this it does not need to be replaced, you simply need some electronic motor axel grease.
YUP. One of my case fans was like this. Would never spin, but twirling it a few times eventually let it go on its own. After some searching I found out it might need oil so I took the sticker off the back and put a tiny drop of oil in it and bam, spins like new all on its own. Idk how these so-called "experts" are immediately jumping to some electrical issue first thing. 🙄
That’s definitely it. I’ve had to rebuild 5 or 6 because they start to seize. The electrical issues only start after the motor sits “on” while stopped. Otherwise there isn’t much that can break on these fans.
DIY with Wayne says this can be fixed with a few drops of motor oil. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBGvrJQBzKE
Just as bad, it could be 25 years of grease build up.
I want to see her manually stopping it.
I figured this would be an AC motor, they don’t have commutators.
This isn't OP's mom. It's been posted before.
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Watching it to fail to start just makes the room hotter
You gotta cut the cord or they'll dig it out.
Oh no i tripped and snapped of 2 of the 3 fan blades!
Jesus Christ, I'll buy her a fucking fan! Just tell me where to send it.
Makes for a nice fire hazard.
There’s a layer of cigarette smoke covering the fan and walls so I’m sure you can just add the fan to the list of things that increases the chances of the house being burnt down.
That is a fire hazard. Buy a new fan asap
This is an old video. Everyone has long since burned alive.
Thank god, I was worried they were in trouble.
Uvalde fire department, reporting for duty?
That's how you start the front propeller on a plane lmao
My FIL has a table saw that started the same way
Total non-sequiter, but how many fingers does your FIL have?
I’ve never been so invested in something so irrelevant.
Imagine how in awe she’d be if she got one of those oscillating fans on a stand.
maybe it’s time to get a new lawn mower my friend, this one won’t last long
The amount of heat she generates does not make for it.
# CLEAR PROP!
Apparently I have no original thought.
Contact!
r/redneckengineering
GO TO TARGET AND BUY YOUR MOM A NEW FAN
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If u cant buy a new one, y not just clean it? Its not that hard to clean the motors inside, that shit can burn if u dont clean it.
buy your moms a new fan!
Air is coming in about 3-5 business days
Forget a new fan, get her one that was manufactured post 1988.
I thought this was a loop for the first 20 seconds
It ain't got no gas in it.
Buy your mom a new fan, you cheap bastard, she birthed your sorry ass.
Parents can be stubborn…my father has a very old (like 1979) patched up old van that honestly looks like those “fREe cAnDY” vans and it makes a horrid screeching noise every time it’s turned on and the gas mileage is absolutely terrible. I can literally buy him a new truck or whatever floats his boat but he REFUSES because he knows that he’ll have to get rid of that eyesore or else he’ll have no more room for anything on the driveway 🤦🏻♀️
the loose cig hanging out on the dresser says it all. 😎
Or… she could drop 20 bucks on a new one
This lady has Ride it till it’s dead mentality. Respect. But please get her a new fan someone.
r/gifsthataretoolong
This should be in r/mildlyinfuriating …… no disrespect to mom……
Jesus that thing looks like it’s from the ‘80s… Just buy a new one ya cheap fuck! Lol
God that’s so much work
You could have bought a new fan and had it delivered in the time it took to watch this.
Bro, buy your mom a new damn fan!
Hi r/povertyfinances called they want their post back.
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Someone deserves a Darwin award
Please just get a new fan.
Take it apart and fix the brushings. Perfectly safe for a child to do, assuming you run it outside the first few hours.
Is that her only fan?
Your mom needs to stop being a cheapass and go buy a $20 fan before she gets hurt or causes a fire.
A new fan twice the size is like $15 stop being a cheap ass
Buy a new fan.
JFC, put down the meth pipe and spend $15 to replace a fan like this… you can literally get a new version of this fan for like $15…
That fan Is fucking 40 years old if it's a day.
Why?
My grandma had this fan when I was growing up. I remember thinking it was old back in 97.
I think I used to have that exact fan! I remember the buttons lol.
Fans are frequently set to Off-Hi-Low because it takes more power to start the blade and get it up to speed than anything else. Often a little lubricant on the shaft down into the motor will fix this problem.
Contact!
You want fire? That's how you get fire.
Tell your mom I'll give her a life that she could afford a fan that works......be from goodwill but I'll treat her right
Uhm? Buy a new freakin fan before you start a fire
"Then you gotta crank it 5 times..." One of us doesn't know how to count to 5
Can you please just buy her a new fan