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This is going to be interesting; for once the shoe is on the other foot!

Folks here know me from my previous work and contracting experience. These days, I'm on the payroll of a fairly serious industrial operation. I've been made "Lord of the Fans."

Well, I have a fan that doesn't work. By all appearances, the problem is likely to be found in the junction box just under the rooftop fan, inside the building.

Mind you, this is the highest roof within 60 miles. The fan has a cap about 6-ft. square and blades about 3-ft. in diameter. A bit more than can be readily manhandled.

Just as bad, they built the plant under this fan, and there is NO accessibility- unless you have a jet-pac.

I did propose an approach, only to be told 'we'll bring in a contractor.' It will be interesting to see how HE does it. Or, perhaps, the 2-yr. old fan will simply be abandoned.

It's also interesting that the safety department has forbidden getting to the fan using the very means used by the original contractor.