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How to rejuvenate a box fan

Step 6Clean fan grills

Clean fan grills
This is tedious and you will feel like cutting corners. If you have more than one fan to do, leave the 2nd until the next day. Use a brush for the solid matter. then spray with a degreaser/cleaner and then scrub with a nail brush or other firm bristle brush. Then wipe with paper towels.

The grids are NOT straight but beveled, and may appear clean if you look at them straight on, look at them from an angle and you will see they have four sides, you don't need it spotless, but get the area in front of the blades reasonable clean. You CAN do these in the shower, and use a long handled scrub brush, but you will still need to use paper towels to get in some crevasses.
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Jun 24, 2009. 10:34 AMmelbee says:
After scrubbing, take a knife and wrap a kitchen towel around the blade (a towel works better than paper towels that just shred to pieces in no time). Use it to get into crevices and wipe off the dirty black water. If you leave it to air dry it'll just dry into black dirt again.
Jun 13, 2008. 7:13 AMjhon2891 says:
well to clean the grills you can also put it in a bathtub with warm,soapy water and scrub it there, I think that it would be easier.
Jun 11, 2008. 7:07 AMIAMSatisfied says:
An old toothbrush helps get into the corners when cleaning the grill.

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