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Post by Noah C on Jul 9, 2016 5:32:07 GMT -5
There are no words for the fan at all... OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG
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Post by John Shelley on Jul 9, 2016 11:01:10 GMT -5
*runs and hides*... You just won the game... honestly I think the chrome blades are almost a case of too much bling
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Post by Noah C on Jul 9, 2016 14:10:47 GMT -5
Andrew G. has won the game "FanCollecting"!!!
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Post by Brian L. on Jul 9, 2016 22:00:13 GMT -5
That fan is quite gorgeous! There is someone who has Two of those in Chrome with Mirror blades.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2016 0:20:39 GMT -5
i have won too,i got a miami carey fan which it's also a rare fan,and i agree still noah
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Post by Noah C on Jul 10, 2016 1:26:22 GMT -5
i have won too,i got a miami carey fan which it's also a rare fan,and i agree still noah Yes you have won. However, the I fan is literally the rarest, most mysterious, most wanted fan for most of the community, and the Miami Carey is right up there with it.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2016 1:32:42 GMT -5
i assume austin the fox had met up with andrew in past since austin was the first owner to this,i perfer the cane blade/ab one over this imo
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Post by Adam D. on Jul 10, 2016 12:09:11 GMT -5
I'm not sure, does this one have all the original parts? Top part of the motor housing looks to be a different color, and I've always seen these with Moss canopies..
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Post by Andrew G. on Jul 10, 2016 12:47:44 GMT -5
I'm not sure, does this one have all the original parts? Top part of the motor housing looks to be a different color, and I've always seen these with Moss canopies.. The only part on this fan that is not original is the flywheel, which I had machined out of aluminum since the old one was failing and replacements are unobtainium. There are two versions of the I-fan: This chrome one is probably earlier, more than likely made in the US since it has a legitimate (and rather large) Emerson K63 motor; this one uses a flat pot metal top plate with unique vents around the motor. This one is 3-speed; the secondary speeds are capacitor-based, as there are two extra capacitors in the motor housing along with the main 5uF run cap. Now the other (possibly later) version is similar, but VERY different. It's variable-speed, uses a Moss-style canopy and has a matching top plate. This version uses a golden olive cast-iron non-vented stack motor (it looks like a large refrigerator condenser fan motor) with a 17mm shaft (versus the 5/8" of the Emerson K63). The flywheel uses queer/rare 12-20 screws instead of the common imperial 1/4-20 size that the chrome one uses. This version is most likely a CEC product, as my Progress Windsor has the same style of motor tag. Another CEC link is this: Have you ever wondered why old Ritzes have a downrod coupling that looks like it was supposed to support a stack motor? I surmise that VERY EARLY CECs actually used this queer stack motor before they switched to the normal cast-iron spinner motor we're actually familiar with. I'm thinking whoever offered this thing originated in the US, then outsourced production to Hong Kong via CEC.. and then folded and were never heard from again.
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Post by Max C. on Jul 10, 2016 18:15:10 GMT -5
That's a reasonable guess.. They must have some sort of coating on one side since they don't seen to be transparent whatsoever.. Indeed they would, due to the miorrored appearence...
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Post by Andrew G. on Jul 10, 2016 20:14:09 GMT -5
That's a reasonable guess.. They must have some sort of coating on one side since they don't seen to be transparent whatsoever.. Indeed they would, due to the miorrored appearence... The blades are plexiglass with a reflective coating on the backside.. thus, mirrors.
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Post by Adam D. on Jul 11, 2016 1:59:49 GMT -5
I'm not sure, does this one have all the original parts? Top part of the motor housing looks to be a different color, and I've always seen these with Moss canopies.. The only part on this fan that is not original is the flywheel, which I had machined out of aluminum since the old one was failing and replacements are unobtainium. There are two versions of the I-fan: This chrome one is probably earlier, more than likely made in the US since it has a legitimate (and rather large) Emerson K63 motor; this one uses a flat pot metal top plate with unique vents around the motor. This one is 3-speed; the secondary speeds are capacitor-based, as there are two extra capacitors in the motor housing along with the main 5uF run cap. Now the other (possibly later) version is similar, but VERY different. It's variable-speed, uses a Moss-style canopy and has a matching top plate. This version uses a golden olive cast-iron non-vented stack motor (it looks like a large refrigerator condenser fan motor) with a 17mm shaft (versus the 5/8" of the Emerson K63). The flywheel uses queer/rare 12-20 screws instead of the common imperial 1/4-20 size that the chrome one uses. This version is most likely a CEC product, as my Progress Windsor has the same style of motor tag. Another CEC link is this: Have you ever wondered why old Ritzes have a downrod coupling that looks like it was supposed to support a stack motor? I surmise that VERY EARLY CECs actually used this queer stack motor before they switched to the normal cast-iron spinner motor we're actually familiar with. I'm thinking whoever offered this thing originated in the US, then outsourced production to Hong Kong via CEC.. and then folded and were never heard from again. Hmmm, but I still can't figure out why the top looks to be white, and that canopy that looks brass, doesn't match the finish of the fan, or is it the camera? anyways still cool fan what ever the case may be.. Anything variable speed should be 1983 or earlier in most cases, but I guess if production shifted at some point, that may cause something to go backwards, but even still, by 1984 everything being made from Hong Kong / Taiwan pretty much was already 3 speed, and anything variable speed was past tense...
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Post by Andrew G. on Jul 11, 2016 10:39:01 GMT -5
Hmmm, but I still can't figure out why the top looks to be white, and that canopy that looks brass, doesn't match the finish of the fan, or is it the camera? anyways still cool fan what ever the case may be.. Anything variable speed should be 1983 or earlier in most cases, but I guess if production shifted at some point, that may cause something to go backwards, but even still, by 1984 everything being made from Hong Kong / Taiwan pretty much was already 3 speed, and anything variable speed was past tense... The canopy is actually a bit yellow, and it is original (the other two chrome ones that surfaced are identical).. not sure why. The speed control change was probably an OEM thing; the K63 motor only came in two flavors, really: Single-speed reversible and 2-speed non-reversible. This fan uses a single-speed reversible motor (switch on top of motor housing) with additional capacitors for the two lower speeds.. so it's a bit of a kludge. Now, when CEC was contracted to manufacture the design, they were still very much variable-speed, so I can only surmise that they didn't want to deviate from what they already knew.
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Post by Andrew G. on Jul 14, 2016 23:17:30 GMT -5
Somehow, this got buried... Emerson (Alaska) Hardwood, c. 1989.
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Post by fancollector12 on Jul 15, 2016 1:53:35 GMT -5
Nice!
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