I knocked a blade of my celing fan and now it wobbles. How do I correct?
Question:I am certain the fan is tightly affixed to the electrical, fan rated ceiling box.
Answers:
Unless you whacked the fan, the shaft should not be bent. Check that all the screws that hold the blades are on tight. Turn the fan on to low speed, if you can see it wobble, look for a blade which is wobbling. Your install kit may have come with a little rubber U-shaped clip. This is a weight to counter any wobble. You probably will have to experiment where on the blade and on which blade the weight needs to go on. If you know which blade is wobbling. Put a small piece of masking tape on it to mark it, you can remove it later and it will not affect the balance; or you can use a pencil. May times the weight needs to go on the opposite blade of the wobble.
If you don't have that weight, try a black binder clip or something that isn't too heavy, it doesn't take much weight to work.
don't use it unless its an even number of blades and then balance out the blades by removing the opposite sides.
better yet, y not try to get another blade at a garage sale, thrift store or if its a HUNTER, get the replacement part.
Assuming your fan's shaft is not bent or damaged, you could re-align the blades to reflect a diff. configuration. This would re-balance them. Or hit the Home Depot and buy new blades
the fan blades are made to balance the fixture having installed a number of fans in my time getting them to balance properly is a pain in the butt however it does not need to be an even number of blades and most often there are 2 sets of screw holes in the fan so you can have either an even or an odd number of blades... I would check at the fan and see if there is a way to reconfigure your blades so that it is balanced again if not you need to replace the broken blade or the fan will get worse and can even fall from the ceiling so basically dont use it till its fixed
Assuming the blade is still attached and you are out of balance...
two things to try...
use a step ladder so you can stand off to the side but with your eye level straight accross from the fan blades. Have someone else start the fan and then immediatly turn it right back off. As the fan slows nearly to a stop you may be able to see that one or two blades are at different heights. These blades are loose and you may get by with merely tightening them.
Assuming they are all tight...
Use a step ladder so you can closely see where the blades bolt to their mount. You should be able to see dust or marks that show where the blade was mounted prior to hitting it.
Only loosen and adjust the blades where you can see these marks.
This should put you pretty close.
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