Evergo Ceiling Fan Model E-8B

[Adam D.]

Added To Gallery. I found this one off the side of the road. Check it out. Any info on this one would be appreciated. Thanks......Adam

[RAY]

I saw one of these fans for the first time about 2 months ago. It was at this girls house who I was seeing for a brief time. Theres was brown with the cane blades, but the bottom motor plate was brass. Very interesting fan. They had it in there very 80's family room, which they were quite proud of! I didnt ask much about it since I did not feel like explaining my hobby, etc, at the time. But she said that fan was "there when we moved in, and her dad always loved it." So it is likely to stay there. I wouldnt mind finding one of those at a thriftshop or something, they are very cool. I like the look even more than the Original it is trying to copy. Does that fan have an oil-bath lube system like the Original, Adam?

[Andrew G.]

That's a banana fan. I've never seen a white one before.

Guest-RAY said:

I saw one of these fans for the first time about 2 months ago. It was at this girls house who I was seeing for a brief time. Theres was brown with the cane blades, but the bottom motor plate was brass. Very interesting fan. They had it in there very 80's family room, which they were quite proud of! I didnt ask much about it since I did not feel like explaining my hobby, etc, at the time. But she said that fan was "there when we moved in, and her dad always loved it." So it is likely to stay there. I wouldnt mind finding one of those at a thriftshop or something, they are very cool. I like the look even more than the Original it is trying to copy. Does that fan have an oil-bath lube system like the Original, Adam?

They were made with both an oil-bath motor and a spinner motor. I found one at a flea market a few years ago with a spinner motor. I had to pass on it because I didn't have enough money for it. That one there looks like it has a spinner motor in it.

[Matthew]

Andrew said:

They were made with both an oil-bath motor and a spinner motor.

I figure I'd save dan the time
They were NOT made with oil bath and a spinner motor (That dosn't even make sense!). In the later years, they did replace the 'original' motor with a basic evergo spinner motor with sealed bearings. The early units were variable speed and oilbath. I have/had an earlier ones (a NIB white one and an older spinner one), the current one is not oilbath. It has the massive original motor, but with a sealed bearing. I want to get rid of that fan, so does anyone want it? No Andrew, you arn't going to get it for free (and what ever happened to that Crompton Greaves/Encon Hi-Breeze I have that you wanted?) and Dan im not going to trade it for some peice of junk Lasko. Cash only

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Matthew said:

I figure I'd save dan the time

Oh, I always have time for Andrew!

Here, fortunately or unfortunately, I dont actually disagree with him. He's saying some fans were made with an oil-bath motor and some fans were made with a spinner motor.

I believe, and this is not completely confirmed, that there were three versions:

1. 28 pole motor, oil bath, cast iron motor housing, dual pullchain variable speed control, plastic switch housing and canopy.

2. Large heavy spinner motor with open top, cast iron motor housing?, dual pullchain variable speed control, plastic switch housing and canopy?, reversible

3. More conventional spinner motor, textured steel motor housing, speed knob and pullchain, steel switch housing (plastic canopy?), reversible.

There may have been some other versions with different combinations of these features, but these are the versions I've seen, and I've seen plenty.

Most basic info, for Adam:

This fan is made by Evergo (you know that) and dubbed by collectors the 'Bananafan' because of the unique Banana-shaped vent holes. It is/was one of the first Hunter Original knockoffs and was marketed under the names "Evergo" "Leslie-Locke" and "Montgomery Ward". Menards sold them. The ones with the actual Hunter Orignal-type oil bath motor go very slow and as a result do not move a great deal of air. The motor is very powerful but because it is 28 pole it is not designed to go very fast. You could probably increase the blade pitch very steeply without damaging the motor. The coolest thing about them, aside from the vent holes, is the dual pullchain system the older models have. This is a pullchain attached to a pulley to a variable speed control. You pull one chain to make it faster, the other to make it slower.

My uncle had one of these in his kitchen in St Paul when I was a kid, it's pictured in the Evergo Gallery in the Yahoo Group (wooden ceiling, tulip 3 light kit) and I have yet to find the exact version he had (two pullchains and a reverse switch, #2 above I believe since he said it was extremely heavy yet I dont remember seeing any coils through the vents). I do have one of #1 and #3. I believe yours, Adam, is #3 missing the speed control.

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Another cool thing Adam's reminded me of: the white models are EXTREMELY white. Meaning, the inside of the housing is painted white. In the spinner fans, the motors are painted white. In the oil bath fans, the rotor is painted white and the coils are wrapped in white tape and with white varnish. Everything short of the screws themselves is white. I consider this to be a major plus, as when you have a fan, say, a Casablanca Zephyr, and the whole fan is white but then you have the big gaping black-grill vent holes and black flywheel it doesnt look as nice. Kudos to Evergo for making another cool looking fan.

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Dan said:

3. More conventional spinner motor, textured steel motor housing, speed knob and pullchain, steel switch housing (plastic canopy?), reversible.

I believe the latest versions had the smaller 2 piece lastic Evergo canopy, like the 36" Evergo in Adam's Gallery. Which would mean they also had a 1/2" downrod instead of the conventional 3/4". I will have to check my fan.