Arkansas HVACR NewsMagazine May 2020

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the hub. You can see that we have some clean metal. It just take a couple minutes to clean the shaft with a piece of Emery cloth or sandpaper. Clean it up really good. Now that the shaft is nice and clean, lubricant with a rust breaker like WD-40. Nine times out of ten the wheel will come right off-- no problems at all without any puller. I do hope that helps. Thanks for watching. — Brad Bryan Orr

THE SUREFIRE WAY TO GET A BLOWER WHEEL OFF

I’ve always opposed the practice of grabbing a hub puller as the first method of removing a blower. This video by Brad Hicks with HVAC in SC on YouTube demonstrates the exact method I use to safely remove a blower wheel without damaging anything. Thanks Brad! This is going to be on removing blower wheels from blower motors. I see a lot of guys that will just get a fancy puller. T hey won’t do any pre p work on the motor shaft. T hey’ll just drop their puller on there and try to remove it. Sometimes it works--sometimes it gets everything bound up and you have to replace the blower wheel. Basically, what I do is just loosen the set screw. (you can see how rusty this one is.) Force the wheel down farther on