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Post by thefanman84 "Elder Moss" on Oct 7, 2012 21:56:58 GMT -5
Dan,lol...what the heck is that knock off original??? look like a original,friction drive and some other Emerson collaboration!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2012 22:09:58 GMT -5
The blade irons are plastic. PLASTIC.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2012 1:12:01 GMT -5
Welp, Dan's Fan City sold Island Fans in 1984. And they were CHEAP.
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Post by Perrey Z. on Oct 13, 2012 2:02:48 GMT -5
The Blade arms have an interesting concept of design. Instead of the airflow pitch being forward like all normal fans, these are the opposite. No wonder I've never heard of them. Probably my grandfather saw these and didn't like the idea of the blade arms design going against traditional fans.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2012 11:50:10 GMT -5
Perrey, can you find any information on the company? The only registered agent I could find is long deceased.
I wonder what the advantage or disadvantage is to the blade arms being reverse pitched.
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Post by JW on Oct 13, 2012 12:42:45 GMT -5
I don't know why it would make any difference what direction they are pitched from an efficiency point of view. Maybe they just did it to be different? Maybe they used some bogus "scientific proof" to try and use the reverse pitch as a ploy to boost sales?
I always assumed (and I'm pretty sure I'm right) that ceiling fans were designed to rotate counterclockwise so the torque of the motor working in the other direction would not untwist a J-hook out of the ceiling, or a motor off of a downrod (before they used pins to lock them at both ends of the downrod.)
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2012 13:30:37 GMT -5
The J-hook portion of it makes sense.
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Post by JW on Oct 13, 2012 23:07:44 GMT -5
The other portion of it is also true given that I had a Tyeb twist off the downrod and fall to its death one night when I had it on high reverse.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2012 23:30:35 GMT -5
But depending on the fan, there's threads on both ends of the downrod. Either way it can twist off.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2012 14:10:17 GMT -5
Thanks, Zach:
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Post by Perrey Z. on Oct 15, 2012 23:20:57 GMT -5
Perrey, can you find any information on the company? The only registered agent I could find is long deceased. I wonder what the advantage or disadvantage is to the blade arms being reverse pitched. Your guess is as good as mine. No info found.
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Post by vanhalen5150 on Oct 15, 2012 23:34:40 GMT -5
But depending on the fan, there's threads on both ends of the downrod. Either way it can twist off. That's not true unless you have left hand and right hand threads on either end... which doesn't happen.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2012 0:36:05 GMT -5
The more I think about it, I think you're right . . . I did have a CEC spinner (j hook) in a church that spun out on high forward, not on reverse. To keep it from falling I put it in reverse.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2012 16:49:10 GMT -5
The motor housing, switch housing, canopy, and flywheel are all plastic. Mounting bracket is the most inconvenient thing I've ever encountered. Pullchain is 2 speed with off, rotary switch is forward/reverse with off. The flywheel is pitched to the left, the blade brackets are pitched to the right. The hump on top of the motor covers two capacitors and part of the downrod. It's very similar in design to the Sears Emersons that were essentially a blender fan with a motor housing, upper canopy and all. The difference in this case is there is no upper canopy, other than the motor housing the top of the motor and capacitors are exposed.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2012 17:07:28 GMT -5
These Emersons: There's also a version with the plain housing and fiberglass blades and the tiny tapered switch housing. It's EXACTLY a blenderfan with a plastic motor housing. I had a pic, it was the one where one blade was flipped over.
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