Another Project Complete

[Adam D.]

Found another one of these weird spinners... It was at the Broward County Habitat.. It didn't have a price on it, so I asked someone how much.. He took the labeler and marked $5 on it.. I said what the hell, might as well get it.. I was amazed at this low price when all the other fans are marked $30 and $40..



I have not found out who makes these.. It looks like at one time it was converted to ball and socket bracket mounting..



The original lower canopy looks like it was replaced with this..



I used a bell canopy and lower canopy off a second Fan King I have that's missing other parts..

I did a repaint job, seeing how the original paint was painted over, slopped up with a paint brush.. I took the electric sander and removed all the paint from the lower and side parts of the motor.. I was not able to save the brass side band, so I went over to Party City, and bought this..



and replaced the side band



For those of you who restore spinners, this is a great replacement.. They have silver as well.. If you don't have Party City in your area, any store that sells party supplies should have this..It's also the same actual material as the original..

I recently found another one of these fans not too long before I got this one.. Funny it's missing the downrod, lower canopy, and upper canopy.. This one has a label on it, that says 56" and made in Hong Kong..



That old rusted three blade version of this fan I found a long time ago.. I don't have anymore.. It's been long gone years ago..

[mndoss06]

Nice find Adam! Those are really weird blade arms. This might be a stupid question but did you glue the new side band on and if so what kind of glue did you use?

[jamiem]

my habitats are marked same price as yours adam...

mndoss,i'm still here too!

(EDIT: Removed quoting of the entire post with pictures to save room)

[Matt B.]

Thats a very weird but cool spinner you have there. Great job on the restore.

[Adam D.]

Thanks guys.. I use super glue, and use very little every few inches..

[fancollector12]

Well, I don't know what it is, but I like the idea of the sideband. We do have some Party City's here in our area and I may just have to get some curtain so that I can add sidebands to some of my fans.

[Cole S.]

Really weird fans, the blade arms are just the absolute weirdest thing I've ever seen on a spinner of this style.

Never would have thought of that for the stripe, very innovative. Been trying to figure that out for some of mine. I have some tape in silver and gold that looks right, but it's too wide compared to most fans, and there's very little on the roll so it's not a long term solution anyways.

[jamiem]

Jan 26, 2012 21:43:19 GMT -5 Cole S. said:

Really weird fans, the blade arms are just the absolute weirdest thing I've ever seen on a spinner of this style.

Never would have thought of that for the stripe, very innovative. Been trying to figure that out for some of mine. I have some tape in silver and gold that looks right, but it's too wide compared to most fans, and there's very little on the roll so it's not a long term solution anyways.

i don't see anything wierd about it IMO,it's just different than normal vintage spinner

the arms mines me of those encon top mounted things,i had one and they have stripe at the blade ends of the blades,it's 4 blades and 42" blade span

[Adam D.]

Foil door curtain is the best, it measures pretty much the same width, maybe off by cm..

[JW]

What a bizarre fan. Blades look like Japanese Lasko, and the odd brackets look like those on the new Harbor Breeze Classic. How does it run?

[Adam D.]

Jan 26, 2012 22:15:40 GMT -5 JW said:

What a bizarre fan. Blades look like Japanese Lasko, and the odd brackets look like those on the new Harbor Breeze Classic. How does it run?

Very fast... I have a video of it coming soon...

[Jimmy P.]

I find this fan VERY intresting!

[Adam D.]

Here's the video..

[Jean Lemieux]

Very cool and unusual fan. I've never seen anything like it. The point of theses brackets was the bring the blades closer to the ground for more air movement.

That's a very good idea of the gold line around the motor. Thanks for the tip.

Do you know if the original canopies on theses fans are supposed to be classic generic canopies like you put on it?

The motor is similar to the motor that a lot of companies like DEMC, 4 Seasons, Gulf Coast etc used but we can see it's made differently and it's made in Hong Kong instead of Taiwan. It also has a more flat shape to it.

[Adam D.]

Here are pictures of the three blade version I found way back in 2003... My my my, notice something "Not" in the background..

I dug up these up from a data disc... I wish I would have kept it.. The upper and lower canopy seems to be no different.. Interesting the blade arms are two piece, notice the screws.. I would not have remembered if I didn't have these pictures still...