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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2005 13:09:33 GMT -5
Hate to break this to you, but 153mm motors aren't exactly "good" unless they're in a 42" fan lol. Standard spinner sizes are 153mm, 172mm and 188mm. A couple of fans claim to have 200+mm spinners, like that Monte Carlo I linked to on the Ebay site. Those are the standard sizes that are listed. Many fans gave even smaller motors, but of course they wouldnt advertise that.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2005 13:16:03 GMT -5
The wal-mart in Palm Coast, FL near my grandmother's house has a very odd array of fans. There are two 42'' five blade builder fans and one four blade wal-mart lasko with a three light kit mixed in with them. There are three nutone industrials in the bakery, one over the photo development area, and one in the greenhouse area. And in the back of the store over a separate register, there is a white hunter calais with a long downrod. I've seen very stange combinations of fans in WalMarts and Super WalMarts accross the US, including: 1. Laskos in the bakery 2. Builder Fans, Aloha Breezes, HRC Industrials, Dayton Industrials, etc over the produce 3. HRC Industrials, Westinghouse Industrials, Builder Fans, Aloha Breezes over the photo counter 4. HRC Industrials, Cararm Industrials over the fabric counter 5. HRC Industrials, Westinghouse Industrials, Cararm industrials over the registers 6. HRC Industrials, Envirofans, Emerson Huggers, Hunter Originals in the snack bar 7. Emerson Heat Fans in the stockroom The first Super Walmart I visited, I just about died, over the produce section there had to be about 100 4 blade Aloha Breezes, mounted on downrods low enough that I could reach the pullchains. It was very amusing. There were so many fans the blades were near touching.
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Post by kgray on Jan 25, 2005 19:30:38 GMT -5
There is a Walmart in Austin I worked at for a short time that had about 10 52" builder fans over the produce. They were about 10' from the floor but were really messed up. Not one of them hadn't been hit. I never could figure out how ceiling fans would get abused so badly in that department. Thats the only Walmart I have ever seen with fans in the produce department.
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Post by JW too lazy to log in on Jan 25, 2005 23:21:02 GMT -5
Ummm... maybe kids throw fruit in the fans? Most fans wouldn't be able to withstand getting hit by an apple while on or off, let alone a crap builderfan
The ones here in the Metroplex and in Waco seem to have more Hampton Bay industrials installed every time I go in one. The one in Waco got Hampton Bay Quick Connects over every register about 2 years ago.
The first Wal-Mart in Waco had 36" Lagunas in the entryway, and 52" cane SMC's hung in various places around the store. The food court had 36" or 42" 3-blade industrials above it; don't remember too much about them though. That store is long gone.
I know there are motors smaller than 153... even the fan websites say this... fortunately, most of them won't sell fans with motors smaller than 153mm. I'm pretty sure H*rit*ge motors are...
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Post by Sean B. on Jan 25, 2005 23:32:00 GMT -5
I know there are motors smaller than 153... even the fan websites say this... fortunately, most of them won't sell fans with motors smaller than 153mm. I'm pretty sure H*rit*ge motors are... You really hate Herritage don't you?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2005 23:43:43 GMT -5
You really hate Herritage don't you? You ever owned one?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2005 23:44:42 GMT -5
The first Wal-Mart in Waco had 36" Lagunas in the entryway Thanks for reminding me, I knew I was forgetting one. When I was a child all the WalMarts had brown 36" SMC Lagunas, 2 in each entryway. Those were the only fans in use in the store. Every Super-Walmart I've been to has had fans over the produce. The mass of Aloha Breezes was the first I saw, and definitely the most impressive. All the others had two fans over each produce "island", usually industrials. My favorite had those hanging grids for signs and track lighting etc, directly over each island, and mounted to each grid were two HRC 36" Industrials. The fans had 12" downrods or so, but the grids hung from at least 10' chains. This is all in traveling, there is no Super-Walmart where I live.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2005 23:58:56 GMT -5
BTW a local chain of grocery stores has, either (depending on the store)
1. An even spacing of HRC industrials over the produce section, normal length downrods, maybe 6 fans total per store
2. Two white Hunter Originals over the salad bar, on extremely long downrods (I can reach out and touch the fan blades). Two of these stores also have Hunter Originals in the back stockroom, brown, about 20.
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Post by Andrew G. on Jan 26, 2005 10:12:58 GMT -5
Oops, I'm missing a few details about the fans in the wal-mart I brought up.
Over the produce section there used to be six almond hunter SUMMITS. Those are the ones similar to coastal breezes but with thin rounded end blades.
When I went to myrtle beach, there were about a dozen regency industrials over the produce and alot more elsewhere along with a bunch of them HRS industrials that seem to be popping up at many wal-marts.
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Post by Sean B. on Jan 26, 2005 15:30:30 GMT -5
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Post by Farah on Jan 26, 2005 16:00:38 GMT -5
Did Wal-Mart ever sell Herritage Fans before?
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Post by Sean B. on Jan 26, 2005 16:04:09 GMT -5
Did Wal-Mart ever sell Herritage Fans before? The only people to sell Herritage to my knowledge is Kmart. Still do for that matter. Those GE vent fans they have now are Herritage fans.
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Post by John "Rockin" Reed on Jan 26, 2005 16:14:59 GMT -5
The only people to sell Herritage to my knowledge is Kmart. Still do for that matter. Those GE vent fans they have now are Herritag fans. I have one NIB...it's white
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Post by John "Rockin" Reed on Jan 26, 2005 16:29:28 GMT -5
I visited a Wal-Mart in Gettysburg, PA in the summer of 1997. I must say that there were LOTS of cool fans there. In the vestibule (entry), as I can recall, the tiny industrials looked as though they were Moss Tropical Breeze (they had 3 blades and no lower canopy, go figure ). Above the check-out lanes, they had brass GE-vent fans that looked like Chadwick-Millers, and they each had 4 cane blades. There were like 8 or so, and all were on except for one, which had a balloon caught in it. They had 4 white 42" Laskos with their famous flush-mount canopy hanging in the snack bar area. I *think* they had a Con-Tech industrial over the photo-developing area. Last but not least, I was in heaven when I saw the fans on display section...there were so many Laskos there.
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Post by Farah on Jan 26, 2005 16:53:23 GMT -5
As For the Herritage fans I only liked Ge Vents on them but I really doubt they are going to last that long even though they look very nice.
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