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Post by Tais on May 14, 2017 1:18:50 GMT -5
got this fan from a group of villas awaiting demolition, its dated in 1998 and has a strong performance, its original capacitor was damaged so i got it a replacement (slightly lower in value from 2.25 to 2)    this will be the last post for now as i notice there seems to be a lack of interest.. |
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Post by Jean Lemieux on May 14, 2017 1:37:05 GMT -5
Very powerful! It reminds me a lot of a USHA Pulsar plus it was made around the same time as those USHAS.
It's a shame that every time someone post about fans that are not a brand found in the USA it gets completely ignored. This has started to happen with older fans in general. If it's not the latest crap that is sold at Home Depot or the latest horror that the so called ''Casablanca'' of today came up with it's of no interest.
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Post by Tais on May 14, 2017 2:14:49 GMT -5
Very powerful! It reminds me a lot of a USHA Pulsar plus it was made around the same time as those USHAS. It's a shame that every time someone post about fans that are not a brand found in the USA it gets completely ignored. This has started to happen with older fans in general. If it's not the latest crap that is sold at Home Depot or the latest horror that the so called ''Casablanca'' of today came up with it's of no interest. i do realize that, and it is indeed shameful! i think only one visit to fanimation will suddenly drive everyone's interest to my collection.. i've made several threads over the past weeks and i realized they were all ignored.. |
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Post by Obi-Wan Canopy on May 14, 2017 12:26:54 GMT -5
Very powerful! It reminds me a lot of a USHA Pulsar plus it was made around the same time as those USHAS. It's a shame that every time someone post about fans that are not a brand found in the USA it gets completely ignored. This has started to happen with older fans in general. If it's not the latest crap that is sold at Home Depot or the latest horror that the so called ''Casablanca'' of today came up with it's of no interest. i do realize that, and it is indeed shameful! i think only one visit to fanimation will suddenly drive everyone's interest to my collection.. i've made several threads over the past weeks and i realized they were all ignored.. You know I LOVE your collection. The younger generation of collectors is mostly on Instagram and Youtube, and to a lesser degree, Facebook. Hardly anyone pays attention to web boards any more. You know we would LOVE to have you and some of your collection at Fanimation. And yes it would generate a lot of interest! |
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Post by Tais on May 14, 2017 13:55:02 GMT -5
Thanks alot! I do miss the days when the boards were more active and more people were posting, i realize a lot of older members are either not posting anymore or are focused on social websites.. younger ones seem not familiar with boards probably due to lack of support of forums on mobiles and tablets
I hope one day ill be able to come to the US for that! There is a chance i may change my job this year and my new job may require me to go to US for trainings, if i got approved in my new job and they sent me to US, ill get a few fans with me for sure and will try to visit the fanimation museum
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Post by Jordan U on May 14, 2017 20:51:08 GMT -5
I wish there were still more people on sites like this.. I have the YouTube but nothing else in terms of those other platforms..
I always look at your pictures/videos and I do find them interesting,, I usually don't comment because I just don't know much about these fans..
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Post by Jean Lemieux on May 15, 2017 0:37:31 GMT -5
It's not a matter of platform but a matter of interests. Whatever what platform you look, you see what some of the collectors nowadays are interested in and it's less and less about older fans and even less brands that doesn't seem popular in the US.
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Post by Obi-Wan Canopy on May 15, 2017 11:11:42 GMT -5
I wish there were still more people on sites like this.. I have the YouTube but nothing else in terms of those other platforms..
I always look at your pictures/videos and I do find them interesting,, I usually don't comment because I just don't know much about these fans.. The younger generations do everything from phones and tablets, a lot of them dont even have or use actual laptop or desktop computers. Social media is designed for those devices. Websites like this are clunky and awkward on mobile. I also understand why US collectors arent interested in fans that arent found in the US-- why pay attention to something you cant possibly connect? I love all of Tais's fans but I'd love them more if they were 120vAC or at least 60hz. |
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Post by Jean Lemieux on May 15, 2017 18:03:29 GMT -5
My favorite thing in fan collecting is to discover models and brands of fans I didn't knew about before.
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Post by Cole S. on May 15, 2017 20:52:35 GMT -5
It's a shame that every time someone post about fans that are not a brand found in the USA it gets completely ignored. This has started to happen with older fans in general. If it's not the latest crap that is sold at Home Depot or the latest horror that the so called ''Casablanca'' of today came up with it's of no interest. I think you're throwing around a lot of generalizations. The fact is, there is a disconnect with international fans and that's just how it is. If we had a dozen people from UAE there'd be a completely different dynamic here. We have some great ambassadors introducing fans from various locales and representing their regions, but the main population of our collecting community is in North America and specifically the United States. It's no surprise that the fans people are interested in are the ones they've seen all their lives and can actually obtain. We're talking about a lot of kids and young adults on budgets, for starters. They mostly get what's local and cheap, and there are plenty of them who are into older fans just as much as the new ones. But those kids aren't here, they're on popular social media like already mentioned. I'm sure if it were at all economical to get fans shipped in from Tais those kids would be all over those too. But that's not how it is, so they focus on what will help them grow as an enthusiast or collector now. As someone who's done that growing already, I love seeing the diversity of what Tais finds, however I am a busy human being and Tais finds a lot of fans, so no I'm not replying to every post or thread. Sometimes a 'like' on a Facebook photo is all I can offer, but it doesn't mean I get any less enjoyment out of it. As far as the newer fans go, this community is constantly evolving and moving forward like any other thing in the world. The irony I find is you're sounding like we should expand interests in one area and limit them in another, and why should anyone limit anything? If others were more receptive to international fans, would you be any more receptive to new product? We all have our own areas of interest, I'm sorry if they don't all line up with yours. Adam has been really great with allowing all topics of conversation here, even though he has zero interest in a lot of what's discussed, and I appreciate that immensely. If you want kids behind us to continue the legacy of what we've created, you have to involve their interests and help them discover the other stuff. Telling them everything new is junk and that they should collect something else un-relatable to them just pushes them out. |
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Post by Jean Lemieux on May 16, 2017 16:55:12 GMT -5
I didn't thought those two lines would make you react at this much. We almost never see you here anymore. You missed the point though.
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Post by Cole S. on May 16, 2017 18:21:21 GMT -5
Your complaints about the state of everybody else will get me talking. When I get five minutes I like to check in and catch up, but any time I do, there's some sort of dismal comment like this. As usual, if you're going to make a public comment, expect someone with a different opinion to reply. And as usual, I missed some unwritten thing you've apparently communicated. So what was your point? You said people don't comment on threads about international fans and that people are talking about too many new fans. Those are the points I touched on. If you're hiding meaning behind other words, I don't see the point of using the words you've chosen.
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Post by Jean Lemieux on May 20, 2017 3:32:31 GMT -5
There's nothing wrong about discussing and trying new coming outs and contemporary fans in general but on a website focused on vintage fans it's shameful that this is what is taking most of the place and the more uncommon and older fans are ignored. This is what this site is about in the first place. Nowadays if I want to get help identifying an older fan it's usually useless.
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