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Joel Ashley:
One of our Fantastic Fans stripped the cast female gear of its motor drive (again).  It should be a simple plug and play replacement, but two issues arose.

One, though I’m usually capable in this dept., I cannot get the two red spade connectors apart that run power to the drivers motor.  I’ve tried a small, narrow flat blade screwdriver between the insulating plastic and the blades, and I’ve poked and pried with metal probes, all to no avail.  Usually those means get the connectors apart.  I may cut the plastic so I can see how they’re locked, but that ruins the weatherproofing.  I may cut the wires near the motor assembly and attach my own new connectors, leaving the old in place.  But doggone it, these should pull apart somehow.

Two, neither Dometic nor BCS Parts has replied about if the K6010-81 motor unit that’s commonly available will replace the failed K6050-81 that’s apparently not to be found anywhere these days.  Does anyone have recent experience with that?  It looks like the only difference is the newer one uses a 2-pronged handle, as opposed to the older one with a 4-pronged handle.

-Joel
PS- I’d add pix but this system is saying they are too large even though one is 165kb and the other only 211kb.  Seems to happen often, so I can see newbie’s consternation here!  And if they don’t take, one has to copy and paste (or rewrite) the text body in a new, refreshed post because load-failed pix locks the whole post.

Joel Ashley:
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Scott Shearer:
Joel,

Been there with those same terminals. I was able to separate them using two needle nose pliers. Grab ahold of the crimped part of each terminal and pull hard while working it back and forth...get real stern with it.

Did the gear strip or the coupler on the motor shaft?

I ask because I repaired one of our Fantastic Vents with a stripped coupling by making a new coupling out of a replacement hand crank handle.

-Scott

Joel Ashley:
I did try pliers once, Scott, but worried about screwing them up altogether.  I’ll try working the connectors harder.  It’s the female side of the gear that appears stripped, the part on the motor shaft.  When I removed the assembly a bunch of black “dust”/debris came raining down on me out of the gear tube…. yuk.  Not good for an eye still recovering from 2 surgeries, but I think it missed.  On that same token, my still not recovered eye(s) only briefly examined the male and female gearing in poor lighting;  I do need to recheck that it is for sure the motor side that’s stripped, but I was pretty sure yesterday.

Thanks for the suggestions.

Joel

David Ciotti:
I bought one of these:

https://www.etrailer.com/Accessories-and-Parts/Dometic/FVK6010-81.html

and it works just fine.  It opens and closes the vent cover much faster than the original part.

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