Bathroom fan motor

[wilecoyote]

...it could be recycled to extract casting fumes, if indoors.
I use an air hand-dryer, heating resistance deactivated, permanently borrowed from somewhere

[hiram]

I got mine on amazon. The house was built around 1975 and I got a perfect replacement.

Nutone Mod 118-001c https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Nutone+Mo...ref=nb_sb_noss

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=nutone+8830

[jimlj]

Any bathroom fan experts here????
It just stopped working.
I checked, and there is power at the plug.
No continuity through the two wires.
It's original to the house, from 1963.
Nutone Mod 8830
Motor is Nutone mod 118-001C.
Both not made anymore.
Anyone know of an alternate motor?????

I'm guessing that is the same model fan that was in the house I grew up in. If it is, the motor is about $80 on amazon. Likely more from other dealers. If it is the same fan, it's round and I don't know of another fan that will fit in the same hole as the old one, meaning you will have to cut a new hole and repair/paint drywall to replace the whole fan.

If you enjoy fixing things pull the motor apart and see if you can find the problem. I doubt that small of a motor has a thermal fuse, might be a loose/broken wire. I think you would have smelled a burned motor, unless the noises (and other related things) you mentioned in another post were masking the smell.

[Iowa Fox]

Nutone motors are famous for weak magnets. When i built the house in 1980 Nutone was top of the line around here.

[1006]

I would buy a new one that is noisy—that way my noises are covered up, and it is not left on.

[deltaenterprizes]

I had to replace a round bathroom exhaust vent for a friend’s mom.
All I could find was square replacements.
I got a piece of 1/4” aluminum plate big enough to cover the hole and cut a square hole to fit the new vent and it looked good and worked well!

[Rickf1985]

For those of you using the in-attic inline fans do you feel safe with a Chinese motor attached to your roof frame up where you cannot see it? If those motors short internally are they protected with a thermal breaker? Not likely. They will just go up in flames.
The Chinese are quite capable of building very high quality equipment but be assured it is not coming here since we want the cheapest stuff available.

[abunaitoo]

I take it you are hand spinning the motor. Have you tried running a jumper wire to power the fan? Something may have gotten to the wiring and chewed though it. This may be good to know for safety reasons.

Tried that.
Nothing.

[abunaitoo]

So it got here, but is not the same.
No mounting studs on the correct side.
Should never believe "granger".
Not the first time they have got it wrong.
I'll have to make somekind of bracket to mount it to the housing.
Kind of getting use to the quiet.

[Eddie Southgate]

I hate those fans , I'd just let it be dead.

[deltaenterprizes]

So it got here, but is not the same.
No mounting studs on the correct side.
Should never believe "granger".
Not the first time they have got it wrong.
I'll have to make somekind of bracket to mount it to the housing.
Kind of getting use to the quiet.

I think that you can switch the side of the mounting studs!

[abunaitoo]

I think that you can switch the side of the mounting studs!

Wish it were that easy.
Can't do it on this one.
No holes for the screws to go through.

[abunaitoo]

Got it done today.
Working just like the old one.
These fans are kind of expensive.
Saved on just changing the motor.