NIB 1983 Commander Spinner 107 cm

[Jean Lemieux]

Here's my last acquisiton for 2019: a NIB Commander spinner from 1983 in brown and polished brass in a rare medium size with plain walnut blades. These seems to be the most common in 90 cm and occasionally in 120 cm but 107 cm seems rare.

This one uses the same motor as used on the small ones (90 cm). Since these motors are so powerful I find them a little bit more appopriate for this size. Low speed is not super fast and high speed is actually usuable but still spins pretty fast for a medium size fan and blows a lot of air. The porportions are very good too. My only regret is that the blades don't have stencil on them.

It's my first fan with the distinctive Tatung style narrow plastic canopy. I love how it's not all brown or all white. The brass brackets makes the whole difference for me.

It's very quiet on high and low but for some reason on medium it has an odd noise. It's not a bearing problem because it does it only on medium and if I use this fan on a wall control and I set the pull chain to high and set the control on medium it doesn't have that odd noise when bypassed by a wall control. I checked the wires inside the switch housing but everything seems fine.

As you can see it has a nice chunky switch housing. The yellow tassel came with it.



Watch the video to see the box, the instructions and hear the odd sound on medium speed.


Enjoy!

[Cole D]

Nice, I always found the Caribbean Breeze style motor with switch housings interesting. As a kid I saw a 3 metal bladed fan with this motor and switch housing, which was so weird to me, since I felt like industrials should be wall controlled.

[Jean Lemieux]

Apr 17, 2020 23:52:48 GMT -5 Cole D said:

Nice, I always found the Caribbean Breeze style motor with switch housings interesting. As a kid I saw a 3 metal bladed fan with this motor and switch housing, which was so weird to me, since I felt like industrials should be wall controlled.

If you watched the video above, you saw that the instructions that came with this fan show a small size three metal blade model along with a small size four wood blade model with switch housing.

A lot of metal blade fans uses switch housings with pull chains but they are more common in Europe though.

The fan you saw was like this?
www.vintageceilingfans.com/gustygilliland&associatesinc(moss)modelm3-36.html

[Cole D]

Apr 18, 2020 1:42:48 GMT -5 Jean Lemieux said:

Apr 17, 2020 23:52:48 GMT -5 Cole D said:

Nice, I always found the Caribbean Breeze style motor with switch housings interesting. As a kid I saw a 3 metal bladed fan with this motor and switch housing, which was so weird to me, since I felt like industrials should be wall controlled.

If you watched the video above, you saw that the instructions that came with this fan show a small size three metal blade model along with a small size four wood blade model with switch housing.

A lot of metal blade fans uses switch housings with pull chains but they are more common in Europe though.

The fan you saw was like this?
www.vintageceilingfans.com/gustygilliland&associatesinc(moss)modelm3-36.html

Yes that one was the one I saw years ago. The place where it was also had two with the bell shaped canopy and no switch housing. I believe they were branded Scotty's Fan. But I don't recall seeing models with four wooden blades and a switch housing back then. The wooden blade ones I saw were the Caribbean Breeze brand with wall control. I have seen the four wooden blades with switch housing more recently, however.