Montana Fan Finds

[Adam D.]

Very nice... Defiantly a great haul.. Could very well be related to Evergo/Union.. But still highly doubtful.. I figured "Kevin" was based out of Montana...

[Cole S.]

I'm doubtful as well after having a really good look-over on it. There's very little about it that would be usual Union, the stickers do intrigue me though.

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The Nutonish Kevin, you werent able to clean it up any?

The CEC looks VERY SMC-ish!

[Cole S.]

That is clean on the Nutonish one. That's all rust on the bottom of the motor, most of the other parts cleaned up quite well.

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imo those sanyos are ugly,i like the one i had better,jj has it now

[Jean Lemieux]

Humm I love them. I don't see why some of you though that the first Kevin was made by Evergo. It looks like a regular 1980's Safer motor. The thicker ones it seems. I think NuTone had the slimmer ones.

I usually don't like theses Safer motors but it looks particular nice with theses different blades and classic canopies. Are you gonna repaint the bottom of it?

I love the CEC Kevin. It's one of my favorite that you got.

It's interesting to know that Kevin is from Montana. They are usually not a lot of fans there it seems but they had unusual ones like the Sanyo you found there and there was at some point a very cool late 1980's NIB TMT on eBay and it was in Billings.

[Cole S.]

I plan to repaint the Safer/Kevin, but who knows when I'll get to it. I'm already packed for projects this summer.

Yes, this particular Kevin was there anyways. I wouldn't think of Montana as a fan state, but as you said there were quite a few odd ones I found, and there was a nice TAT 3 metal blade with nut installed in the main building of the ReStore as well. And from what I've seen of Bozeman, they are crawling with Emerson, Casablanca, Homestead, Nutone, and probably any other number of showroom and store brands from the past 35 years. I didn't really take a lot of sightings but there were a number of neat fans I saw from older TPI style industrials to Casablanca Marrakesh's to the TAT I mentioned all the way to a Big Ass Fans Haiku at my sister's workplace (a health/fitness club). Also at my sister's workplace are probably around a dozen later TATs with the straight blades and four Silverlines.

That's what I forgot to post. Here's some pics of the BAF and a couple of the TATs I took on Instagram:

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Try 0000 steel wool and WD40 before repainting. Be gentle.

[Cole S.]

Will definitely try it. I would prefer not to repaint if it can be salvaged.

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Try just WD40 first, then.

It looks like surface rust. Surface rust can be removed but you have to be careful not to remove the paint as well. I've had good luck.

[Cole S.]

Here are the Homestead and Cambridge, the last two!



I didn't even bother showing the Cambridge with the blades it came with. They look so bad and I like these as smaller fans anyways. Don't have a lot of 17" blade sets so I used walnut which I thought matched best. The off-white actually looks closer to snow white in the pic. I couldn't get a good picture of it with all that brass.

[Rick M.]

Wow, that's quite a haul!!! Lots of neat fans there. I love that unusual Sanyo spinner.

[Cole S.]

Thanks Rick!

[Farah]

Very nice finds! I hope that you enjoy them.

[fancollector12]

I actually just got a 56" Sanyo that has a speed indicator window on the switch housing similar to that of a Fresh'n'dair portable fan. It was complete except for the J-hook, and has fake woodgrain on the bottom and on the metal blades. Works really well on all three speeds, and was wired with a plug.