I've been doing some cleaning and laundry. I decided that today was the day to clean my portable fan. Silly me, I assumed it would come apart nicely for cleaning. Wrong. The designers, I'm sure, never gave a thought to that. I managed to clean most of it, but it simply did not want to go back together properly. It works, but it bugs me because it DOES need to be cleaned periodically. Anyway, it's done. And working.