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10-29-2004, 12:26 AM
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| I had planned on going to bed... ...but the fates decided that I needed to fix a furnace!!! So I'm up at 1am, I am greasy, I am smelly, I am dusty and my hands hurt like a sonova bitch. And what do I learn from all of this? #1...I don't like fixing furnaces and will never do so as a profession and #2...MAYBE I'm not as useless as I once thought! The big wheel that is attached to the fan fell OFF!! Like...OFF!!! The furnace kicked in and all there was was a low hum. Now, humming...very soothing...nice to fall asleep to, but I am smarter than that. I know that it'll keep doing that all night and it will burn out the motor and then we'll be even MORE fooked than we started out...am I right? So I head down there and flick the switch to cut power to the furnace. I COULD just leave it like that eh? SURE!!! No more humming, no more burnt out motors...but I am smarter than that. I know that if I leave the furnace off in this, our most coldest season, the children will wake up with teeth chattering and purple lips and I'll win the award for most negligent mother of the year...am I right? So I go to simply put the wheel back on, reattach the belt and YAY!!! BUT WAIT!!! I'm smarter than that!!! There's always a reason for things falling off...AM I RIGHT?!?! Sure... There's a pin that holds the wheel on the fan and yadda yadda...and there's a place where the wheel gets secured by a screw...(giggle giggle...she said SCREW)...and this spot where it is secured looks like it was run through a stump grinder!!! Theres grooves...there's gouges....there's no fricken place to have anything SECURED!! AHHHHH we say to ourselves...THATS why it fell off!! SO!!! I find the smoothest place, I SCREW the thing into place, I reattach the belt, and now I am praying to whatever deity there could possibly be listening that it doesn't fall off while I am asleep...or we'll be very cold, and our furnace shall be toast!! (The motor anyway) Moral of the story? Husbands fix furnaces. 
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10-29-2004, 07:34 AM
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That is a good story and I know it's true. The parts of the furnace, below the thermostat, are a mystery to me. I know that there is a wire that connects the two, but that's as far as I go. I think you are very brave and your kids are very fortunate to have you to battle the furnace monsters for them.
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10-29-2004, 01:42 PM
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10-29-2004, 04:52 PM
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Last spring (the part of the year where road construction is just starting) My furnace started squeaking, it turned out that the fan axel was worn and needed replacement, and when the repair guy fixed that (cause I'm lazy) he over tightened the pulley and when the furnace started up the whole house filled with smoke from the burned out motor. By the way... Quote:
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