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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2014 19:19:25 GMT -5
What's your opinion on six bladed fans? I love the vintage ones with the stack motors!
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Post by organistjx on Apr 6, 2014 19:26:21 GMT -5
Well, there's always Homestead... they had some good models
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Post by JW on Apr 7, 2014 17:58:29 GMT -5
I like pretty much any six-blade fan that isn't A) one of the dinky little 30" generic fans that have been the craze now for some time, or B) one of those fans every department store had a version of with the super skinny blades with pretzel brackets and a SLOW motor. A classic six-blade fans stands out to me as unusual. Maybe it's because we just don't have Homestead fans around here - I've seen exactly TWO in person... one was one of the old 4-blade Homesteads with the regular looking blades and brackets, and I saw the other one so long ago that I couldn't tell you if it was an actual Homestead or one of those Payless Cashways knockoffs.
Apparently I am the only one that has seen a 6-blade Tyeb or similar. When I was little my nextdoor neighbors had one. When we moved into my parents' current house it had a 50" and a 42" (I replaced the 50" with a Casa Vieja Victorian replica and sold it to Perrey, and put those midsized generic Lowe's blades on the 42"). One of my dad's co-workers had a non-functioning variable speed 52" hanging outside and was missing two blades (eventually it got swapped out with a black and white SMC). There were three at a local meat market that all got switched out with Air Cools, I saw another in a house that was having an estate sale, and we got one in at Habitat once. Other than the one that used to be in our living room, every last of them had the darker veneer blades with the very pronounced points - almost wingtipped. The one used outside was the only one of the lot that I remember being variable speed - all the rest were 3-speed except possibly the meat market. Not great air movers and with the original blades they will almost always wobble like a hula dancer, but very unique looking for what they are.
World's Fairs are awesome fans but the flywheels suck. I still have at my house one from an old Habitat customer that is awaiting a new one.
I like that one Adam has with the American Industries-looking motor.
Dan gave me one of those JC Penney Alaska/Sheng Yuan-manufactured 6-blade fans... it moves a TON of air. Surprising, being a Sheng Yuan product. I can't say anything regarding any of the other JC Penney fans, although the ornate brackets are WAY out of place on their GE vent version.
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Post by Adam D. on Apr 7, 2014 22:44:15 GMT -5
I like all old six bladed fans from the late 1970s, into the mid 1980s, anything that's rare and out of the ordinary.. Like JW said and all the rest I have, even the Hunter Studio Series six blade.. I rarely come across six bladed fans locally.. And never come across Homestead other than the Whisper Fan III that I found about a year ago..
I'd like to find a chunky GE Vent variable speed six blade fan.. Like the one that's in the member galleries that's unknown.. I think Cole has it... It may not be variable speed but it's chunky and has stencil blades...
You can still buy replacement flywheels that will work with Fasco Worlds Fairs, You just have to modify it..
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Post by Andrew G. on Apr 7, 2014 23:21:54 GMT -5
Once again, someone NEEDS to start fabricating metal replacements for those god-awful World's Fair flywheels. It can't be that hard...
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Post by Adam D. on Apr 7, 2014 23:25:37 GMT -5
I agree.. I doubt any company will do it, seeing how it's more money into making them than the very little profit they would get out of it... That's why they discontinued making the regular rubber flywheel..
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Post by Tais on Apr 8, 2014 0:18:16 GMT -5
i am not really a fan of 6-bladed fans, but i like homesteads and anything unusual and old
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Post by Andrew G. on Apr 8, 2014 0:25:58 GMT -5
I mean, a simple flat flywheel similar to that on a Nutone Verandah Deluxe would be pretty easy. Isn't Cole's father a machinist?
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Post by Adam D. on Apr 8, 2014 0:38:34 GMT -5
I remember him mentioning something like that.. I wonder whats going on with that..
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Post by fan1968 on Apr 14, 2014 6:12:00 GMT -5
Well, there's always Homestead... they had some good models Like the WIND I or II |
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Post by organistjx on Apr 20, 2014 0:13:10 GMT -5
Well, there's always Homestead... they had some good models Like the WIND I or II Exactly. Those are also some of my favorite Homestead models... |
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Post by fan1968 on Apr 22, 2014 18:03:27 GMT -5
Exactly. Those are also some of my favorite Homestead models... There's some chrome ones at my local buffet. Let's hope can score em! |
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