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Post by Jean Lemieux on Nov 16, 2022 19:34:29 GMT -5
Here's a Sanyo 140 cm model 56C I acquired from Alexandre Dufour when meeting him last year for the first time. We traded fans. Some of you probably remember this Sanyo model from my sightings thread. Although I posted a few of them they remain rather rare. It seems they were sold for only a very short amount of time. This one is dated of June 1980. It doesn't actually say Sanyo nor any brand on it but it's very obvious it's a Sanyo product. I'm not sure of these fans actually existed in white. I have seen white ones but I feel like they are brown fans painted white to match the ceiling as they are brown underneath the peeling paint. Lke a lot of ceiling fans made in Japan it contains a lot of plastic. The canopies and the bottom half of the motor are plastic. The bottom half of the motor was very scratched up when I got it. I repainted it in glossy brown. You can see how it looked before repainting it in Alexandre's thread on the 8th, 9th and 10th photo. Other than that it's in pretty good condition. The contoured blades are very heavy. With such heavy blades the acceleration is rather slow and the spin down time is very long. The bearing is also in very good condition. Despite the heavy blades it manages to reach about 230 rpms on high and the motor runs surprisingly cool. It blows an insane amount of air! It has a very cool speeding up sound on high speed. The downside is that it also has an audible hum on all speeds something that seems typical of all Sanyo ceiling fans.     Enjoy! |
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Post by fantasticfans on Nov 17, 2022 9:16:03 GMT -5
Beautiful! These are pretty rare too. The Dayton/Lasko ones with the pullchain are childhood so any of these are cool to me.
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Post by Tais on Nov 17, 2022 18:08:22 GMT -5
Amazing fan! Before seeing this thread i saw the video om yt, i somehow felt the bottom motor cover was painted but didnt say anything as i thought i may be wrong
Sanyos, unlike almost every other fans have 2 bearings on the top shaft and no bearing at the bottom, that could be contributing to the continuous hum at all speeds, i face that hum with my 80s xpelair whispair as well, which also doesnt have any lower bearings
My sanyo fan makes loud noises when operated at full speed without blades, havent tried it with blades yet
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Post by Ic total drama on Nov 22, 2022 23:15:07 GMT -5
Dayton lasko sans switch housing and instead of white it’s BROWN
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Post by Jean Lemieux on Jan 29, 2023 2:45:27 GMT -5
Amazing fan! Before seeing this thread i saw the video om yt, i somehow felt the bottom motor cover was painted but didnt say anything as i thought i may be wrong Sanyos, unlike almost every other fans have 2 bearings on the top shaft and no bearing at the bottom, that could be contributing to the continuous hum at all speeds, i face that hum with my 80s xpelair whispair as well, which also doesnt have any lower bearings My sanyo fan makes loud noises when operated at full speed without blades, havent tried it with blades yet I'm glad it can pass for original paint. It must be well painted then. I did not saw if it had two bearings on top but it does not have any on the bottom. The hum on this Sanyo is not continuous though, it's inconsistent which is more annoying. Continous hums are usually not annoying especially when they are subtle. My 1996 Xpelair Whispair also has a inconsistant hum but not as loud as the Sanyo. Sanyos have very cool speeding up sounds when speeding up to high speed as heard in the video above. |
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Post by Jean Lemieux on Jan 29, 2023 2:54:39 GMT -5
It's funny how everyone's reference to this fan are ''Dayton-Laskos''. Are they really branded with both names at the same time like some Crompton Greaves says Encon and Crompton Greaves on the same fan?
It seems like the Sanyo above would have a different motor from the variant with pull chain on the bottom. The videos I have seen of them show them spinning slower on high than the fan above. Other fan enthusiasts seem to say that their motors are a little underpowered for a 140 cm blade span and can get pretty warm. This variant above is pretty fast considering how heavy the blades are and runs relatively cool even on higher speeds.
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Post by redkiosk on Jan 29, 2023 7:55:12 GMT -5
Jean,
That's a beautiful fan. Interesting how the blades attach to the motor with that extra layer of wood. How are the two blade pieces attached to each other? Are those three attachment hardware some type of rivet or screwed and nut?
Hard to tell from the photos. Thanks in advance and take care!
Jim
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Post by Jean Lemieux on Jan 29, 2023 20:29:12 GMT -5
Jean, That's a beautiful fan. Interesting how the blades attach to the motor with that extra layer of wood. How are the two blade pieces attached to each other? Are those three attachment hardware some type of rivet or screwed and nut? Hard to tell from the photos. Thanks in advance and take care! Jim There is no wood on this fan, it's all made of metal and plastic but yes it's quite unique how there's a little piece of metal that extends over the blade brackets. The blades are attached to each bracket by three rivets like we often see on any other metal bladed fans. |
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