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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Reptech" data-source="post: 559612" data-attributes="member: 38266">Very quick update on this aspect of things. I had a quick look this afternoon and decided the fan should feel freer than it does. With it in situ all I do is gentle prod (to turn) the rotor with a plastic tool and do the same at the outer edge of the fan. Not very free I would say.One bearing is easy to access, the other of course is less so as it is pointing away from the front of the heater. Using some sintered bearing oil, a relic from days of VCR service I lubed the bearings. For the awkward one I used a small plastic cable tie bent appropriately with a drop of oil on the end and was able to feed that into the bearing. Did that a few times.Definitely freer now but I would still say not spectacularly so (but possibly that could be normal), however start up is absolutely instant with normal speed reached in a blink of an eye. I actually sat and timed it yesterday and it took a full two and half minutes to start to push any detectable air flow through the vents. It was bizarre watching it turn at something like 10rpm for ages in that state.You do wonder what that Dimplex note about the fan 'might' take up to a minute to respond is all about. Its like saying your alarm clock might take a while to go off after the set time.What I'm going to end on is to say this is not good having two separate issues on a 4 yr old product like this.</blockquote>