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What is this thing?

[x-posted to a.h.r]

Any>But I know someone here will know how to answer this:

>What is this whirlygig thingie in my furnace? It spins around and >makes a whistling sound while the furnace is firing up, then shuts >itself off and sits idle until the next cycle. > >Apparently someone else in my building seemed to think it was useless, >and tore it off of their furnace because of the whistling sound, >because I saw an identical part that had been broken off a furnace and >tossed into the alley behind our building. > >
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>Apparently this is part of an "inducer motor" and I fear for the >health of whomever tore this piece off of their furnace and threw it >away. >. >What is it inducing? The air current through the exhaust, or the air >current through the venturi? > >Also, is there any sort of schedule that is recommended or mandated >for inspection of flues? (I live in a rented apartment in Cicero, >IL). > >If someone could direct me to the correct NG I would be grateful.
Reply to
G. Morgan
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The plastic wheel is the cooling fan for the draft inducer motor. Removing it won't let any CO into the home, it will only shorten the life of the draft inducer motor. If the motor dies, the furnace will cease to function.

TDD

Reply to
The Daring Dufas

Please do not put a carat at the front of a URL, makes the URL unclickable.

Reply to
Stormin Mormon

I'll separate the URL, so it will be clickable.

Reply to
Stormin Mormon

Get a better newsreader, Chris.

Reply to
Doug Miller

X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5843 ^^^^^^^^^^^

There's your problem. Works fine in a real newsreader. And it's not a carat, it's a greater than sign... meaning the text was quoted.

Reply to
G. Morgan

Or you could try this thing called copy and paste

Reply to
Craig Arnold

On 1/30/2010 7:24 AM Doug Miller spake thus:

Really.

We've been over this before many times. Outhouse Express just doesn't cut it.

That link was perfectly clickable in my newsreader (Mozilla Thunderbird), as I suspect it is in 99% of other newsreaders apart from OE.

Plus your messages still come though with everything below your replies (which are top-posted) as part of your sig, meaning they do not appear in the composition window when one replies to one of your messages.

I know you've made excuses for this in the past, but clearly you're the odd man out here, not the rest of us.

You might want to consider switching to something else.

Reply to
David Nebenzahl

What if he didn't want to make it clickable? Some believe in the Mormon faith. Others don't. It's the same with me and my fiath. Don't sweat it.

Reply to
Robert L Bass

On 1/31/2010 2:28 AM DanG spake thus:

So now you're stooping to using sock puppets? Why?

Your posts are so easy to spot: top-posted text, your sig, then everything else (including any quoted text) below it, guaranteeing it won't be included in a reply. Badly formatted, in other words.

Reply to
David Nebenzahl

I rather think NOT.

Reply to
DanG

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