In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Hey Jack - congratulations on so much progress!
Btw, I hope you don't mind this next bit. It's just that I've done a lot of things in my life, and I kind of geek out about details. A stalled electric motor is nearly a short and draws a lot of current. An electric motor spinning at its proper speed is generating the correct AC resistance and draws the proper amount of current. An electric motor with dry, dirty, or deformed bearings that turns poorly is somewhere in between. One more thing you can do is - with your blower off and unplugged - try to spin the rotor. It should spin freely and keep spinning smoothly till it comes to a gradual stop.
If it doesn't you may need to regrease the bearings. Depending on vintage you may have a grease-gun fitting, an oil cup, or sealed bearings. 
But regreasing isn't entirely simple.
You need to have a grease gun if that's your fitting type. If you have sealed bearings you're SOL. And if you need to regrease and can - you need to select the proper grease.
And now I think I've divulged everything I possibly can about furnace blowers.
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All I know is that the part number is 20805-01. Putting that into Google results mostly in new replacement motors for that part, among other parts. One listing, however, is for a used motor by Franklin Electric with that part number for $69.95. The seller didn't put any information in it other than it still works.
There's a really stupid sticker on it. It says what to do if it's sealed and what to do if it's not sealed. It doesn't bother to tell you whether it's sealed or not though.
I spun the motor by hand and everything seems to check out fine. It moves noiselessly, and spins a few rotations before coming to a stop. It's never going to beat a gyroscope in a cross country race, but I don't suppose it was designed to.
I'm regretting not putting it on the last couple of nights except a quick half hour session 2 nights ago to cool the attic a bit. It's gross in my house right now and doesn't need to be. Although it's going to rain tomorrow and cool down, it's never going to get all that cool tonight so it won't do me much good until tomorrow night.
I got half of my kitchen back and organized a lot of tools in the pantry closet. I found another piece of the countersink set, but not one that's going to help me. It's a "drill and drive" set, so even though I now have 3 of the actual drill pieces that do the work, I have no way of getting it secured in my drill unless I find at least one of the two pieces that house these bits on one end and house the screwdriver heads on the other end. If it was just regular bits with no frills the ends would fit in a drill properly.
Hopefully I can find it out in the garage when I really start sorting through and organizing the tools out there. I'm only keeping in the house the basics that I would need in 90% of the situations. The rest can go in the garage.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Just got another huge box put together. Mostly gaming related stuff along with some computer things. I might regret putting it all in such a huge box since it's a little heavy and all of this stuff is going into the attic until I eventually move, but I've run out of small boxes and I didn't want to deal with going to the grocery store to get more today and I didn't want to put it off any longer. Since all of this stuff is in the living room where I do 90% of my living, it's nice to see it all gone.
lol... I've forgotten so much stuff that I've taken from other people in the last 5 or 6 years, particularly the stuff I took back when I was drinking. That acoustic guitar was a shocker, although I immediately remembered who gave it to me and had vague recollections of playing it before burying it and forgetting about it. I just found a bag with an old original Playstation and a Dreamcast in it. My brother must have given me that, but I don't even have any memory of that. No games with them, so I can't test them out, but I'm not going to get rid of them just yet. They're small and can make the move with me until I sort more stuff out.
Going to put that bookshelf out late tonight after the rain is dried up.
I might just put a large working microwave out on the street I got from my parents before they moved too. It's way too big for my needs and I've already got a working one that fits in a slot built into the cabinets for that purpose. I only took it because I had planned on dismantling a 2nd microwave for the transformer inside (I've already got one). With a 2nd transformer and a 220v connection I can make my own welder. I dunno. I might take it apart. The transformer isn't big and I only need one more. Those doughnut magnets in the magnatron are also super powerful and very useful in a shop. It would only take me about 30 minutes to get the parts i need from it. It's got to go this week though. Once I remove that and get that heater to my friend I'll have room in the back of the garage for my generator and I'll have access to the shelving in the corner of the garage so I can throw out about half of the junk that's up there and sort out the rest into keep and give away piles.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Did not dry up yet. So much rain...
I'll put that stuff out tomorrow.
I found a device my brother let me "borrow" years ago that you can plug virtually any hard drive into and connect it to your computer with a USB cable. I had an older version years back that didn't do as much that crapped out on me, or at least to the point of being too unreliable for my purposes.
I have a few old hard drives that went bad over the years that I've always kept to see if I could try to save the data off of them. Nothing on them is important enough for me to pay big bucks for a professional company to try to salvage it, but I'd be thrilled if I can manage to recover some of it.
First two drives I tried were a bust. I actually was able to find data on them, but they weren't even my drives. One was obviously from a computer that my old man gave me years back that had pictures of my youngest brothers in their sporting events when they were younger. I have no clue what the hell the other drive was. Three people with the same last name of some family I'd never even heard of for the windows profiles. I don't even know how I got my hands on that. Third drive sounds really bad and I didn't have much hope. Windows did manage to "see" it, but considers it an uninitialized disk. The recovery program I'm using seems to be picking up quite a bit of data off of it. Fingers crossed.
I've got a stack of about a dozen to go through. Whether or not they are salvageable, I'll be dismantling them and getting the magnets and platters out before pitching the rest. Even if they were any good, they're all such small capacity compared to cheap drives in the terrabytes these days that they're hardly even worth the electricity used to run them anymore.
It will be nice to finally get rid of another stack of crap that I've been holding on to for years. It really drives me nuts how long it's going to take now that I'm finally doing it though. With the old tech I'm working with, it looks like it's going to be an overnight process just to scan a 250GB hard drive.
Like the microwave magnets, these are extremely powerful and useful to have around. Unlike the microwave magnets though, they're very small... perfect to put on a screwdriver tip and pull up any nuts you clumsily dropped in a tight spot under the hood of your car. :)
The platters are really cool too. Mirror surface. I always thought it would be cool to make some sort of designer mirror or something out of them when I got around to doing this and I had enough for the task.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Tired and no work for me for a month. My boss, her husband and their son and daughter-in-law are off. Most likely going camping.
It's nice to have a break from these people for a bit. Means I can concentrate on my new place and take my time.
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Good for you Brenda. Enjoy your break. I hope you get a lot that you want accomplished.
To be honest, I haven't used my time off as wisely as I could. I'm getting a lot done, sure, but I figured I'd be much further along by now. Hopefully my friend can come and help me try to salvage the porch and once that gets done I can really get into full gear. In the mean time just cleaning up, getting rid of a ton of stuff and getting the curb appeal up as much as I can.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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"part number is 20805-01"
Just out of curiosity I tried looking up the PN to see if I could find a representative picture to see what I could see. No luck.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Good for you Brenda. Enjoy your break. I hope you get a lot that you want accomplished.
To be honest, I haven't used my time off as wisely as I could. I'm getting a lot done, sure, but I figured I'd be much further along by now. Hopefully my friend can come and help me try to salvage the porch and once that gets done I can really get into full gear. In the mean time just cleaning up, getting rid of a ton of stuff and getting the curb appeal up as much as I can.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I will. And I hope I can. It will give me some time to think about how to get some shelving. And a couple of frames. And also take things to be donated and such.
First thought I need to let my left wrist relax for a day. I pulled it out a bit today at work.
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Looks like cooler weather in the forecast for where I am.
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Originally posted by 1kiki:
"part number is 20805-01"
Just out of curiosity I tried looking up the PN to see if I could find a representative picture to see what I could see. No luck.
Yeah. I did find that one listing for a used motor from Franklin Electric. The pictures weren't that great, and outside of the blower unit it's hard to tell if that's even an exact match or not. Other than that, the only hits I came up with were brand new "universal" motors that replaced a large number of old motors, 20805-01 included.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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