Hello Guys and Girls welcome to my channel it's 'Lurgs' here and today how to
fix a spinning cowl, spinning cowl not Simon Cowell.
So I've got this spinning cowl on top of my chimney it helps draw the air up
through the chimney and makes the fire burn better, so as you can see it's quite
a windy day and the spinning cowl is not spinning so you're either gonna need
this guy or you're gonna need this guy to help you out there. I haven't got
either so I'm going old-school with a ladder now I don't particularly like
Heights but luckily this isn't too high. So what you need to do is you need to
get the spinning cowl off of the chimney and on this particular model it
just tightens up with a jubilee clip and you've got a nut there so you just
unscrew that make it loose enough and then you just lift it up and out of the
brackets. Now be very careful when you lift that spinning cowl off of the
chimney it is extremely heavy, so make sure you get a good grip and don't lose
your balance. Right let's go and check this out so I'm going to try spinning it.
As you can see that is very poor it's not going to spin around even in
the strongest Hurricane winds so what you can do is you can release this nut on
the top so take that nut off and the washer and then this propeller system
actually lifts away, this gives you access to the internal kind of bearings
in there where you can give that a good old clean up and put some grease on it
so this is the culprit here so obviously got a lot of dirt and gunk in it so the
first thing I'm going to do is I'll turn the umbrella cowl upside down I'm just
going to clean it with my wife's toothbrush.
Pssst don't tell her I'm doing this, so I'm giving that a good clean and now this is
where the, this is where the bearing is so again I'm just going to clean this up
as best I can with my wife's toothbrush,
get as much gunk off as you can, if you can't get it off with a toothbrush just
get a flat bedded screwdriver just scrape off the ash so really you just
want to get this really really nice and clean. I'm not going to show you the
whole video cleaned up because it took about 10 minutes just scraping off
all the ash, getting it as clean as you can obviously those two surfaces are gonna
rub together and now get some 3 in 1 oil and just try and squirt it down
inside where that shaft goes, so squirt that 3 in 1 oil in there and then
just keep turning that and then try and get the oil to actually go down inside,
it's very difficult to get it inside but if you get it get it cleaned up well
enough now what I did now is I just put a spanner on the top with that nut back
on and just spin it around manually like this so just just keep doing that a lot
a lot of times.
So there we go it's already looking a bit freer I'm just going to keep doing
that putting some more oil in just keep topping it up get that oil down inside
and just keep turning, once that oil has all gone inside then just take some nice
grease I'm going to put that inside the, inside the umbrella cowl that's the bit
that is going to rub against the other surface so plenty of grease in there and
then just a bit more round this part. Oh
and a nice cup of tea! Oh oh so good you're gonna be working on
anything on my How To channel always make sure you've got a lovely cup of tea to
have halfway through. Okay so let's get this cowl back on, put a bit of grease on
that thread now when you put this washer and the nut don't over tighten it,
if you over tighten it it will stop the cowl spinning, so just tighten up with your
fingers and then a tiny turn on the spanner just not much at all.
So if you compare that to what it was like at the beginning it would barely
turn. So this is just showing how the Jubilee clip works so it literally just
goes inside those brackets and then you just tighten it up and it just tightens
it on . So back up the ladder, I really don't like ladders and there it goes
that is in the wind and it is spinning like a good one. Absolutely brilliant. oh
Get the Jubilee clip in there make sure it's nice and level and then just
tighten that up there we go. I've tightened that up. I couldn't film that
with one hand hold onto the ladder and do everything I'm sorry Guys and Girls
that was just too dangerous. Job done Don't like going up ladders though, no I don't.
And there we go spinning like a good one, good fix good fix unfortunately
it looks like I'll probably have to do that every couple of years because it
does get dirty and filled with ash. If you would like to subscribe to my
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