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Post by Tais on Sept 20, 2011 8:26:42 GMT -5
if you remember in the sightings thread, i posted some pictures of ceiling fans in our workshop.. since they are no longer in use or needed and i was offered to obtain them, i took 3 of them for now and scheduled the others to be obtained time by time instead of obtaining all of them at once and having a hard time with them for now i got relite fan, 1 USHA fan and 1 SMC the relite fan has had its label wiped off and its capacitor date too unclear, i found out that it is dated february 1990, date was located inside the upper part of motor.. unlike the other relites i have, the motor is completely white, blades are made of iron (just like the one in my farm) and the motor spins MUCH faster than all my other relites as well as it makes some strange hums when operating   the SMC that i obtained is made in china, undated... i'd suspect it to be very early 90s or 1989.. it has blades exactly like the HK-made SMCs  finally the USHA, it is dated june 1997.. the motor is very stiff (actual fan was not photod)   besides obtaining these 3 fans, i took several fans there to be repaired: Winner fan was fixed, and it now works properly the 1994 rusty SMC has its bearings replaced and now it is almost in mint condition ox and crompton parkinson (the rusty one) need winding, so i decided to cancel for the parkinson but the ox is still pending (in case i find another feasible solution |
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Post by Tais on Sept 27, 2011 10:43:06 GMT -5
a few updates about the fans: the relite fan's blades have been painted almost exactly like the standard color... it looks awesome now with these blades  the SMC fan also had its blades painted and looks new, however during the bearing replacement process, a lot of the plastic barriers flaked off the motor causing to short-circuit with the metal plate... i hope i could replace the broken barriers without the need to re wind the whole thing again here are the painted blades (exactly like the HK-SMC blades)  |
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Post by Jean Lemieux on Sept 28, 2011 3:41:55 GMT -5
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Post by Tais on Sept 28, 2011 8:13:04 GMT -5
nope its not the same canopies that came with it, it is the spare downrod and canopies that i got at the time i got my national fan.. ada19851985.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=fans&action=display&thread=5095i requested them to paint the blades before handing them to me coz they are too harsh for me to deal with and spray paint wont look good on it.. they only painted the relite fan blades (same color as my 48" blade) and the SMC blades i bent the USHA blades back, they were all facing upwards more than it is supposed to be, the relite and SMC blades were bent back by the workers but not completely bent back, i will go forward with them when i have time the SMC was not dated, but written made in china.. i expect it to bebetween 1989 and 1992 since it is heavier than my 1994 SMC that fan in argentina might be manufactured by another company...since the motor is as big as the 1975 relites and the blade mounting structure is different |
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Post by Tais on Sept 29, 2011 7:03:27 GMT -5
got 2 more fans today from the workshop, an HK-made SMC and another chinese-made SMC the chinese SMC was not dated just like the one i got earlier.. got the lower bearing replaced and the upper one lubricated  the HK-made SMC was completely locked and there were signs that it has been revived before.. according to the workers, there was water inside the motor.. the motor was also painted during the first revival time... i have a feeling that the date is lying under the paint or removed  the lower part of the motor case was filled with rust and dirt  both motors work and have no short circuits |
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Post by Andrew G. on Sept 29, 2011 9:30:14 GMT -5
Well.. that's certainly a gnarley surprise.. and yes, I hate it when I find this.
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Post by Tais on Oct 24, 2011 13:47:21 GMT -5
got the remaining 3 fans from the workshop and with those 3 additions, i reached 50 ceiling fans in my collection the 2nd USHA (the one with the badly bent blade in first post) and these 2 SMCs   the USHA has the same characteristics as the other USHA but with quiet bearings the SMCs are both chinese-made, both undated, but by getting all these chinese SMCs and gathering it with all my other SMCs, i noticed very interesting stuff from them the locked HK-made SMC is manufactured in 1988 (same wire color as mu 1988 SMC), the 1987 model has different colored wires 4 chinese SMCs: 2 of them have bigger capacitors (same value, 3uf), spin much faster than the other 2, have the exact same label as the HK-SMCs (except china instead of hong kong), their winding plate has 4 holes (all chinese SMC K56 winding plate has 8 holes).. i highly expect these 2 to be manufactured in 1989 the other 2 have the exact same capacitor as my 1994 and 1998 SMCs, they spin almost the same speed as my 1994 SMC slower than the 2 mentioned above, the outer winding and inner winding are differently colored unlike the 1994 SMC where they are both the same color.. their label has a slight change in text format at the bottom, these are expected to be between 1990 and 1991 (that's before the blade redesign) here are a few pics of the USHA fan i recently got, it has the exact same problem as the supreme fan had, aka spins SLOWLY at full speed (i will need to try it with USHA regulator)   |
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