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Post by Jean Lemieux on Mar 14, 2015 12:33:02 GMT -5
I like the Casablanca Four Seasons 2. That Canarm is filthy, interesting picture angle for a sighting picture. The Banvils look very well painted, did they come that way from the factory or did someone do that after they bought them? I like the 4 Saisons Classic II too, I've always liked seeing this style fan in commercial places. Those Minka Air fans are interesting. They look like they would be pretty powerful, but they're a bit modern for my style. The Canarm Monet is pictured that way because I took the picture from the street through the windows with a long zoom. The Banvils were painted by the people that installed them. They come only in white. Yes, me too. I love seeing 1980's fans still installed in commercial places and that they don't feel the need to replace them with something else. I used to hate Minka Aire but I like the idea of theses, it's a very interesting design, the same for the Kewl.
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Post by Max C. on Mar 14, 2015 12:52:31 GMT -5
I love the Minka Aire! Do you know what the old fans were? The custom painted Banvil Bronze Line and the Four Seasons Venair are second. The Casablanca Four Seasons III and SMC hugger are okay and the Canarm Monet is awful.
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Post by Jean Lemieux on Mar 14, 2015 12:58:03 GMT -5
I love the Minka Aire! Do you know what the old fans were? The custom painted Banvil Bronze Line and the Four Seasons Venair are second. The Casablanca Four Seasons III and SMC hugger are okay and the Canarm Monet is awful. No, I don't know what the other fans were but they were not very old. They were brushed nickel with a light, five blades and looked remote controlled. They were very ugly. How is the Canarm Monet so awful? Because the light is removed? It's actually a Casablanca Four Seasons II from the mid to late 1990's. The ones Rénô-Dépôt sold.
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Post by Jordan U on Mar 14, 2015 13:03:45 GMT -5
It looks like they did a really good job on the painting of the Banvils, at least from the picture. They were even careful not to paint over the logo.
The Canarm Monet isn't my favorite, but I like it better than the Nadair thing in the last picture.
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Post by Max C. on Mar 14, 2015 13:11:32 GMT -5
No, I don't know what the other fans were but they were not very old. They were brushed nickel with a light, five blades and looked remote controlled. They were very ugly. That sounds like most of Canarm's new lineup. How is the Canarm Monet so awful? Because the light is removed? That's the main reason. It also happens to be a pretty cheap fan. It's actually a Casablanca Four Seasons II from the mid to late 1990's. The ones Rénô-Dépôt sold. True. I just usually classify these as Casablanca Four Seasons II/IIIs.
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Post by Jean Lemieux on Mar 14, 2015 13:14:21 GMT -5
The other fans were something like Hampton Bay or Westinghouse.
The Casablanca Four Seasons III is different from the second one. The 3rd one uses a Hang-Tru and concealed screws.
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Post by Max C. on Mar 14, 2015 13:16:33 GMT -5
The Casablanca Four Seasons III is different from the second one. The 3rd one uses a Hang-Tru and concealed screws. There are minor differences. They are still technically the same fan though.
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Post by Jean Lemieux on Mar 14, 2015 13:32:33 GMT -5
The Canarm Monet isn't my favorite, but I like it better than the Nadair thing in the last picture. Ah that's funny. I actually like the brackets a lot they have.
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Post by Jordan U on Mar 14, 2015 13:40:35 GMT -5
Ah that's funny. I actually like the brackets a lot they have. The brackets aren't bad, but there are certainly other styles I like better. What I don't like is the motor housing, the vent pattern isn't the nicest thing I've seen.
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Post by Jean Lemieux on Mar 22, 2015 16:51:46 GMT -5
More pictures for March. A friend who lives in Rouen, Haute-Normandie (France, 220V-50 Hz) sent me theses pictures of the two fans in his apartment. The first one is a white Conforama 132 cm with remote control. It can also be controlled by pull chains. The canopy on this model is thicker to accommodate the remote receiver and even has vents on it. It's like a Encon/Westinghouse stepped canopy but thicker and with vents. The second fan is unknown to me. It doesn't come with a remote control. It's 132 cm, antique brass with rosewood blades. My friend said that before this one there was a cheap four blade white 107 cm hugger that was very noisy. This new one is very quiet. It replace the cheap hugger about three years ago. I would have to ask him if it was bought at Conforama too. Here's one of a kind of throwback! This is not a picture of a picture. It's an actual early digital picture, some of the first ones we took hence the poor quality. This picture takes us back to August 12th 2001. It was taken at the outdoor Restaurant Sao by the pool at the Novotel Hotel in N'Djamena. (Tchad, 220V-50Hz) At that time the restaurant had a whole bunch of what seems to you SMC K56 140 cm curvy blade but most of them were labeled Mazda. They were probably from the early 1980's to 1988 max. Just on this picture we can see at least nine of them but the whole restaurant must have had close to 15 of them. According to recent picture and videos from the 2010's I saw all of them have been removed and a few were replaced by what seems to be Indian fans. The lobby of that hotel had four polished brass GE vent 132 cm fans on long poles with oak and cane blades and no light. Two with four blades and the two other with five blade. The bar indoor also had fans in it. Four more polished brass GE vent fans with oak and cane blades of the same size on short poles. Two with five blades and school house lights and the two other with four blades and four tuip lights. I don't remember if they had a ball and socket canopy and if it was a cylinder canopy. It seems that the fans in the indoor bar are still there as of today but the fans in the lobby are probably removed. All those fans were probably from the late 1980's. You can see on the weekends they had musicians that would come there. In a restaurant in downtown Montréal, about four antique brass Nadair Designer's Choice 132 cm with very nice rosewood blades. In a clothing store at a local shopping mall there is this recent Canarm Mini Builder. This is the current version. This one was probably installed around 2009-2010. I love how it still have the deeply pitched brackets like the older ones and the two pull chains. This fan is installed in the section where the fitting rooms are. Today I went to a local antique store. In the garage where the merchandise comes in they are two very dusty metal blade fans. I know how some of you like it when metal fans are very dusty. They were controlled by a black and silver variable speed controler. I even played with it just for the fun of it like I did when I was a child. One is this very cool four metal straight blade Golden Fan 140 cm. It's the first time I see the straight blade version with four blades. I have the four curved blade version of this. It would date from somewhere between the late 1970's to about 1984. The other one is a Canarm 140 cm, the version with only one line on the blades so probably from the early 1990's. Notice it has the typical early 1990's motor with the line not placed in the middle. Inside the store there was this polished brass semi-spinner 107 cm. This is a pretty early version, especially for a five blade one. It has nice wider cane on the blades and we can see the light did not came with it as it's too big for it. The later versions from Heritage came with three tulip lights. Someone knows the brand of the one? I'm guessing it can be as old as the late 1980's.
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Post by Jordan U on Mar 22, 2015 17:05:21 GMT -5
I like the first fan in the apartment, it has a nice clean design. Never seen the second one.
That's a cool install of the industrials. The first digital camera we got was I think in 2003. I still have it. Its amazing how far cameras have come.
The Canarm Builder seems like a pretty good fan, do they have decent motors in them to accomodate the blades? That kind of pitch certainly isn't something commonly seen on fans anymore.
I like the 4 blade industrial a lot, along with the cane spinner. That light globe would look great on an Original!
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Post by Jean Lemieux on Mar 25, 2015 22:50:05 GMT -5
I like the first fan in the apartment, it has a nice clean design. Never seen the second one. That's a cool install of the industrials. The first digital camera we got was I think in 2003. I still have it. Its amazing how far cameras have come. The Canarm Builder seems like a pretty good fan, do they have decent motors in them to accomodate the blades? That kind of pitch certainly isn't something commonly seen on fans anymore. I like the 4 blade industrial a lot, along with the cane spinner. That light globe would look great on an Original! The Conforama fan ressemble a lot to a Canarm Catalyst II except for the canopy and light. For Canarm, it's the opposite of most of other companies. Thier Builder line is actually better quality than the regular line. They have a quality more comparable to a showroom fan. I would imagine that they do indeed have a better motor considering the pitch on the blades. The black late 1990's, early 2000's Canarm Kiara 107 cm that you thought that the pitch on the brackets was wrong, it's the same case as these fans. They are indeed more upscale. I'm really glad I saw this four straight blade version of my curved blade Golden Fan. It's interesting all the diversity of four metal blades fans in Québec. It was the first time I see one like that and only the second time I see theses blades on theses fans. I've seen a three blade model before in 2006 with the blades going upwards. The spinner would have looked better with three tulip lights or no lights at all.
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Post by Jordan U on Mar 26, 2015 14:58:59 GMT -5
The Conforama fan ressemble a lot to a Canarm Catalyst II except for the canopy and light. For Canarm, it's the opposite of most of other companies. Thier Builder line is actually better quality than the regular line. They have a quality more comparable to a showroom fan. I would imagine that they do indeed have a better motor considering the pitch on the blades. The black late 1990's, early 2000's Canarm Kiara 107 cm that you thought that the pitch on the brackets was wrong, it's the same case as these fans. They are indeed more upscale. I'm really glad I saw this four straight blade version of my curved blade Golden Fan. It's interesting all the diversity of four metal blades fans in Québec. It was the first time I see one like that and only the second time I see theses blades on theses fans. I've seen a three blade model before in 2006 with the blades going upwards. The spinner would have looked better with three tulip lights or no lights at all. That's very interesting about the Canarm builder quality, I never would have guessed that. The four blade fans are interesting, I've yet to see one here in the US. I agree on the spinner, that light, while I like it, doesn't work on there.
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Post by Jean Lemieux on Apr 3, 2015 20:04:22 GMT -5
Here are the last pictures for March till April 1st. This first one is actually from February. I forgot to post it before. They were theses two Canarms at my local Salvation Army economy store that month. They were both dated of 2010. This picture was sent to me by a friend that has two of theses 1980's Canarm 90 cm in his chalet located in the Laurentides region. He might take better pictures for me. The bottom of the motor should be rounded. It's supposed to be the small version of my 1983 Canarm 140 cm but I'm confused because it has those blades with only one line. It should have blades with three lines like on a small TAT. Also the date code seems to be 1987 so that might be a little too new for this style. Or maybe it's 1979 which would make more sense with theses blades. The style of the sticker on top of the motor is also different from my larger 1983 model. At a local curtain and fabric store they are theses two very cool and chunky Nadair GE vent in chrome finish with black blades. It's just like the brass version I have. It's possible that the blades were painted and that they did not originally came like this. The blades on theses fans can vary a lot in style, finish and even length. They can be 90, 120 cm or 132 cm. The canopies can also vary between a bell like I have on my brass version and that is the most common type of canopy for theses or a more rare flat canopy. Bell canopy and 120 cm like on my brass one is the most common combination. Notice the two pull chains but the fact that there is only one tassel put on each makes me believe that the second pull chain doesn't do anything like on mine. Theses fans are very heavy and powerful. They can weight as much as 13 kilos. Yikes! One is 120 cm with bell canopy. It was spinning on a sort of medium speed or fast low. The other one is 132 cm with flat canopy. This one was off. The same from another angle. In a local Subway outlet open around 2007-2008, they are five antique brass Canarm Grand Builder. It's very common to see theses fans in Subways but I didn't thought they have used them in Subways this late, especially in antique brass. The blades on these fans are very nice and glossy. What is particularly cool about this outlet is that it's a pretty small one and there is five fans in that small place. Two on each end of the restaurant and one in the center. They were all on low. Another one: They are two more behind this photo. At my local Rona hardware store, the same one that has about six unknown and mysterious Indian fans that I posted before in 2008-2009, I noticed that when I went there a few days ago, in the greenhouse they added two new Canarm CP36. They were on high. I don't like how the new ones don't have the gold line around the motor anymore but if someone really wants a gold line on them for the older look, it could easily be added. Enjoy!
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Post by Jordan U on Apr 3, 2015 22:59:48 GMT -5
The Canarm 36" install is my favorite! The chrome fans are neat too.
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