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Post by Cole S. on Oct 26, 2012 18:10:41 GMT -5
So these have been on a local auction site for awhile now, in a restaurant near me. I've been watching them for years, every time the building changed to something new I checked the dumpsters. Anyhow, the auction ended last night and I won. None of them are in great shape, and I can tell you right now that one will for sure be parted out so that I can make two complete good fans. One's got a broken bracket that has been very creatively fixed along with a badly bent arm, another's got a cracked blade, and yet another has a broken pullchain, thus the reasoning for combining to get two decent fans. They used to have light kits, apparently whoever removed them completely rewired the fans because they're kinda messed up. I, for the life of me, do not know how these things didn't fall and kill someone. The first one I took down was barely hanging on by the canopy, and the other two wanted to slip through the defective mounting brackets as soon as I touched them... More pics to come as I combine and hang them.
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Post by Adam D. on Oct 26, 2012 18:40:22 GMT -5
These are some neat NuTones...
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Post by fancollector12 on Oct 26, 2012 20:13:18 GMT -5
Nice! What's the white stickers on the switch housings of some of them?
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Post by Matt B. on Oct 26, 2012 21:03:07 GMT -5
Glad you got them, I have never seen those kind of mounting brackets before.
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Post by Jonathan A. on Oct 26, 2012 21:06:56 GMT -5
What do you think about making the videos? Because if you do, it would be the 1st video of NuTone Hacienda running on all 3 speeds.
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Post by Daniel G. on Oct 26, 2012 21:31:02 GMT -5
What do you think about making the videos? Because if you do, it would be the 1st video of NuTone Hacienda running on all 3 speeds. Why are you obsessed with others making videos? He'll get around to it eventually. Just be patient.
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Post by Jonathan A. on Oct 26, 2012 21:39:38 GMT -5
What do you think about making the videos? Because if you do, it would be the 1st video of NuTone Hacienda running on all 3 speeds. Why are you obsessed with others making videos? He'll get around to it eventually. Just be patient. I just like to see how the fan operates on each speed. I just try to make videos of fans on all speeds when I see them.
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Post by Rick M. on Oct 26, 2012 23:57:22 GMT -5
Awesome NuTones! Glad you were able to get those.
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Post by Cole S. on Oct 27, 2012 0:13:55 GMT -5
Nice! What's the white stickers on the switch housings of some of them? Those are from the auction company, everything in the place that was for sale was labeled separately with a number that corresponded to the online auction number. Glad you got them, I have never seen those kind of mounting brackets before. They're so bad. IDK what idiot thought initially that they'd sufficiently hold a fan, it's not like they're spread really far open over time or anything, they're just that way. I have managed to bend one a little bit so that it will (hopefully) hold a fan though, at least for a short time. What do you think about making the videos? Because if you do, it would be the 1st video of NuTone Hacienda running on all 3 speeds. I'm workin' on it, calm down. I do have a life besides fans, I only got the damn things this afternoon.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2012 0:28:12 GMT -5
LOVE Haciendas.
Those mounting brackets are terrible. They were recalled.
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Post by Cole S. on Oct 27, 2012 9:50:41 GMT -5
Here's the "fixed" bracket on the one I'm parting out. Pretty creative, really. I've never seen anyone non-collector go to this length to save a fan. The finish is practically gone on the housing anyways so it's not a huge loss overall. I did make a video of it for yacks and giggles since it ran pretty wonky. The others will hopefully be shown today in their entirety.
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Post by fancollector12 on Oct 27, 2012 14:12:06 GMT -5
Gotta love ghetto-rigging LOL
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Post by Daniel G. on Oct 27, 2012 14:17:45 GMT -5
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Post by Jean Lemieux on Oct 27, 2012 15:03:41 GMT -5
I see theses a the 1980s version of the Hunter Bayport. The shape of the blades and brackets reminds me a lot of the ones on a Hunter Bayport.
It's very creative and impressive what they did to repair the bracket. Does the blade goes under or on top of that bracket?
The mounting brackets are very odd looking indeed.
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Post by Cole S. on Oct 27, 2012 16:26:37 GMT -5
I see theses a the 1980s version of the Hunter Bayport. The shape of the blades and brackets reminds me a lot of the ones on a Hunter Bayport. It's very creative and impressive what they did to repair the bracket. Does the blade goes under or on top of that bracket? The mounting brackets are very odd looking indeed. I've gotta think Hunter directly stole that concept, it's close enough to warrant suspicion. The sheet metal was sandwiched between the blade and the other piece of the bracket that broke off with the screws going through everything, the blade was on top. Yes, very bad design. They kind remind me of the bracket on my Oceanway II, but that one actually holds a fan lol. Even after bending one of these quite a bit it still won't hold a fan, just spreads right open again.
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