Spent 6 hours trying to fix a forge blower, ended up being a single loose wire

I was tinkering with my homebuilt forge last weekend and the blower kept cutting out after 5 minutes. Tore the whole motor apart, checked bearings, cleaned the impeller, even rewired the switch. Six hours later I found a wire nut that was barely hanging on inside the junction box. One twist and it was fixed. I almost threw the whole thing in the scrap pile. Anyone else waste half a day on something that dumb?

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anna_coleman27d ago

Found a mouse nest under my car hood after three hours of weird engine noises.

evan_harris1427d ago

And then you feel like an absolute idiot for not checking that first.