Decades ago, I moved from Massachusetts to Florida. When I moved from that house to a new one, I discovered an unopened bathroom fan motor + blower wheel in the attic (left by a previous owner). “Nice” (head nod) I said to myself, and threw it in with everything else in the moving boxes.

Of course, my wife told me to “just leave it” and “you’re such a hoarder!” It stayed in that box when we moved again a decade later.

Today, one of our bathroom exhaust fans stopped working (for the 2nd time) so I decided to reach deep into my hoard of random crap. “I have just the thing!” I still remembered which box it was in and where I stored it in the attic above the garage!

BONUS: The old bracket nuts didn’t fit the new motor so I had to fish around in my collection of random nuts, bolts, and screws to find two exact matches. Which I had, of course—because I save all the screws of all the things 👍

I saved ~$37 and a trip to the hardware store today!

  • Riskable@programming.devOPEnglish
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    5 days ago

    3900-2059-000 was the original motor (and assembly). The new motor didn’t come with a bracket for some reason 🤷. Fortunately, the old steel bracket is as tough as (steel) nails so I was able to re-use it.

    Here, have some more unnecessary details:

    Photo of the OEM cardboard box that held the BROAN BP27 bathroom exhaust fan used to replace the 3900-2059-000 motor that was originally installed in the ceiling of the bathroom