Nuisance fastners - winge

Sylvia Else · 2011-02-09T11:29:35+00:00

I had occasion to dismantle a cheap pedestal fan the other day (Coles Home Collection). It hadn't failed, but I wanted to see how it was wired up (that's another story).The cover to the button panel was held in place by four screws which were identical except that two were philips head type, and the other two had a triangular socket in the head.I have bits to cope with most things I've encountered, but not those. What's the point? Are they worried about competition for repairing these $10 fans?Do consumers regularly electrocute themselves by taking fans apart without knowing what they're doing?Sylvia.

Feb 09, 2011 64 Replies

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John Robertson 15 years ago

Is "winge" the Australian rendition of "whinge"? Just asking as Folks from the USA spell colour or neighbour in an interesting way and I figured Downunders may take similar liberties...

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Archon 15 years ago

The one I have (Lasko) is 0.85A 120VAC JC

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kreed 15 years ago

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At aldi today, I saw these sheets of very thick cardboard that are in the egg display close to about 80cm square. There is one of these sheets between every 4th or so lots of stacked egg cartons. These would probably do, and Aldi don't care if you take them. They make very good packaging material I find.

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kreed 15 years ago

No, its the same here, its just a spelling error

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Rheilly Phoull 15 years ago

Ya right of course, although in this case more of a "whine" :-)

Rheilly P

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