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Post by Adam D. on May 7, 2013 15:48:35 GMT -5
Found some goodies today.. Some neat stuff, and mint almost brand new 8 track recorder.. Even though it's off subject I had to include it.. Check out the Panasonic...  Panasonic. The most oddest thing I've ever seen.. Heavy as hell.. This really made my day..  One of these flat motor spinners from the mid 1980s.. It's a TAT.. I believe there was a thread recently on something like this..  The Last but least a Moss Tropical Breeze (View Fan alike) missing all screws and the nut, so won't be added to the galleries until when and if I find a nut  |
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Post by Jean Lemieux on May 7, 2013 16:03:13 GMT -5
Very cool finds.
The flat motor spinner looked cheap at first but when we look at it closer the motor appears thick and it has a nice chunky rounded switch housing.
The Panasonic is VERY cool and rare. Pierce P have been looking for one like this forever.
The control on the Moss looks cool. It must be a late model to be marked Made in China. 1989-1990 probably. What kind of blades it uses? Four wooden arch end blades like on the box? You have quiet a few fans that made it in the galleries with missing nuts. It might be difficult but you should find screws for the motor that will fit.
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Post by Andrew G. on May 7, 2013 16:13:29 GMT -5
Better idea: Put the Moss in the scrapyard first, THEN move it to the regular gallery once it's complete. Even if a fan is incomplete, it should still be seen.
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Post by Adam D. on May 7, 2013 16:18:29 GMT -5
The Moss Tropical Breeze is from 1983.. The instructions has the year listed..
The Panasonic has one bent bracket that pitches the blade more and up.. I tried to bend it but seems to not want to budge, and don't want to put too much force on something that could break and not be replaceable..
The TAT is pretty cheap, when I saw one hanging at a garage sale once I kinda had a feeling these were made by TAT.. Someone recently bought something similar to this fan.. I think the motor was broken in a spot..
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Post by Adam D. on May 7, 2013 16:19:06 GMT -5
Better idea: Put the Moss in the scrapyard first, THEN move it to the regular gallery once it's complete. Even if a fan is incomplete, it should still be seen. Good idea Andrew.. I keep forgetting about the scrapyard.. |
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2013 16:19:32 GMT -5
pearce phillips has been looking for that panasonic fan for ages
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Post by Jean Lemieux on May 7, 2013 16:29:41 GMT -5
Oops. I just noticed the wood blades for the Moss on the side.
Intresting that they were ceiling fans marked Made in China this early. Is it heavy like Hong Kong made fans?
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Post by Adam D. on May 7, 2013 16:40:44 GMT -5
I saw that and thought the same.. It's not heavy at all.. I think who ever made View Fans made this too, or at least tied to something of that nature.. It's basically a 48" of this fan, but labeled Moss  The Panasonic fan: Now that everyone mentions Pierce Phillips wanting one of these I vaguely remember seeing a picture of this modeled Panasonic before.. Memory is very faint and was many years ago.. |
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2013 17:02:07 GMT -5
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Post by Adam D. on May 7, 2013 17:20:27 GMT -5
I remember that thread and those pictures.. Can't make out alot of the details in those pictures he posted.. I always thought the fan in those pictures was a pretty normal style, even though he explains the details..
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Post by Cole S. on May 7, 2013 18:47:24 GMT -5
So the Pierce Panasonic has finally surfaced. Really nice to see some better pictures of the details, great find with that one. The others are cute as well.
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Post by Adam D. on May 7, 2013 19:08:59 GMT -5
Here's some detailed pictures.. Listed in the main galleries under
Panasonic Ceiling Fan Model F-5250C
Video to follow in the next few days..
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Post by Andrew G. on May 7, 2013 19:44:37 GMT -5
I love how they used quotation marks for the "Hazardous moving parts" bit...
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Post by Adam D. on May 7, 2013 20:04:23 GMT -5
I wonder what happened to Pierce.. I could just see him somewhere down the road come up out of the wood works and see that I have the fan..
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Post by JW on May 7, 2013 21:22:35 GMT -5
The Panasonic looks like an antique Westinghouse! The blades look like those on similar KDK's minus the barely visible point.
I guess the first and obvious thing we can disprove about what Pierce said is that the blades definitely do NOT have "so much pitch that it moves as much air as a Hunter Original while only spinning as fast as most fans do on low"... haha. If anything it has the same 8- or 9-degree pitch that the aforementioned KDK's do!
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