My CEILING FAN just fell on the couch, HELP!

cdowling1

but why does the screw come untightened. I know for certain that screw was very tightened and for over a year no problems..

cdowling1

mine did the same exact thing it was a hunter Newburgh fan and has been up there for over a year hung by a professional and never wobbled or caused a problem until it fell and hit me

McSteve

I've never been a fan of those set screws. Seems most newer fans attach the downrod much more securely. A couple drops of loctite on those set screws would be good insurance, I think.

stickboy1375

neither was the fan.

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louweed

frenchelectrican

I am not too crazy with screws as well I never understand why not just make a pin that go thru the pipe then the sucker will never come off instead of useing the locktie it may work it way loose over the time but I never like the combo head ( which that use the phillps and flat blade ) at all just use the standard nut and lock it good with a wrench it much stronger than just a combo head.

I have ran into one good ceiling fan that have three setscrews that sucker can not come apart very easy without destory the pipe.

Merci,
Marc

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