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Post by Cole S. on Dec 14, 2013 23:55:09 GMT -5
I would say fair condition at best. I agree the pic doesn't look bad but I kinda got the good side. It's not something I want to put ANY time into aside from maybe an oiling and a light cleaning, I'm just torn on hanging onto it since it's a bit of history, though I prefer the Leslie Locke and Airmasters I got from there much more and don't really have any room for this thing. I'm not making any rash decisions that I'll regret later yet.
No fans replaced the Leslie Locke and NuTone, the kitchen is fanless now. They put in drop ceilings which brought everything down to a uniform height which is a bit low for any fans. The dish room ceiling was already low for a fan, the new ceilings are about at that level.
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Post by Cole S. on Dec 28, 2013 23:30:29 GMT -5
First fans with uplights I've ever owned! Wish they'd been Emerson or something, but regardless of people's feelings toward Craftmade, I find models like these to be very cool and it's not like I overpaid for these fans that were pretty expensive when new. Crescent: Constantina, which has dual uplights that can be on individually or together: Both have some wobble issues. Pretty sure every blade arm on each one is/was bent in some way, I got them as close to alignment as I think I can. Crescent has a warped blade or two. Overall they're pretty nice though, the Constantina was a bit scratched up but some rubbing alcohol buffed out most of it and a little white-out touched up the rest.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2013 0:48:29 GMT -5
I like the Crescent a lot. I'm trying to decide if I like it better with 4 or 5 blades. I wish you could modify it to 6.
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Post by Andrew G. on Dec 29, 2013 13:58:31 GMT -5
When I first glanced at the first photo, I literally thought to myself "Oh god"...
However, these abominations do look half-decent with 4 blades.
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Post by Cole S. on Dec 29, 2013 17:56:59 GMT -5
I would love it if these had six blades.
Wow, I was expecting a much less positive response from you, Andrew. Was expecting a "kill it with fire" or worse.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2013 19:59:19 GMT -5
I see you've met Andrew before.
Why not see if you can order another blade arm from Craftmade, and make a 4-to-6 adapter ring?
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Post by Jean Lemieux on Dec 29, 2013 20:30:43 GMT -5
Wow! Very cool. I usually hate these fans with a large uplight vase shape housing but the Craftmade Crescent in polished brass in a big exception. I think it's the only fan of this style that was made in polished brass. That's why I like Craftmade, they continued making a lot of fans in polished brass late in the 2000's. The wobble on this one is not that bad. It seems to be very powerful. I love it with four blades.
I don't like the look of the Constantina but I love the idea of the two sets of indirect lights with rope lights to accentuate the other edge. I never knew it was made like this.
I'm surprised theses fans uses standard base bulbs. Theses seems to be A15 bulbs in it. What wattage are they? It looks too bright for an uplight.
How old are they?
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Post by Cole S. on Dec 29, 2013 21:29:28 GMT -5
Why not see if you can order another blade arm from Craftmade, and make a 4-to-6 adapter ring? Don't know if there's enough room in there for all that. The switch housing is already ridiculously close to the blade arms, I haven't really looked if I can modify anything else to make more room yet. Wow! Very cool. I usually hate these fans with a large uplight vase shape housing but the Craftmade Crescent in polished brass in a big exception. I think it's the only fan of this style that was made in polished brass. That's why I like Craftmade, they continued making a lot of fans in polished brass late in the 2000's. The wobble on this one is not that bad. It seems to be very powerful. I love it with four blades. I don't like the look of the Constantina but I love the idea of the two sets of indirect lights with rope lights to accentuate the other edge. I never knew it was made like this. I'm surprised theses fans uses standard base bulbs. Theses seems to be A15 bulbs in it. What wattage are they? It looks too bright for an uplight. How old are they? I definitely like the PB. There's not a whole lot I LOVE about either one of these, but I think they're neat and I have a hard time passing up originally expensive stuff when it's in good shape and cheap. And I like the uplights. I like the standard base bulbs, it's a much wider variety of nice bulbs you can use. In the Crescent is 60 watt crystal clear bulbs, I tried my usual 15 watt bulbs (as seen in a lot of videos so as not to wash out the images in light) but you could barely see they were on so I changed them. The ones shown in the Constantina are the 15 watt ones which nearly match the intensity of the light coming off the secondary rope lights. Anything much lower and they would hardly be visible for the video. The Constantina had 75 watt bulbs when I got it, which was ridiculously overlamping. Crescent didn't have any bulbs in it. Does 2004 for the Crescent and 2012 for the Constantina sound plausible? Neither one has a clearly printed date, those are just my guesses based on some of the numbers which are in the places the dates are on some of my other Craftmades.
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Post by Cole S. on Dec 31, 2013 16:19:50 GMT -5
Probably the last post of the year in here lol. Sorry this is wordy, wanted to post the annoying backstory. Picked up this Slimline at the thrift store yesterday for $5. Originally when I went in it had $20 on it which I was gonna pay because I like these funky short switch housing ones. When I got to the checkout there was a whole meltdown (I am not exaggerating or being sarcastic, it was literally like the end of the world to these people) because the $20 tag was not the store's tag. They called to the back to see if someone could price it and apparently they couldn't so they took the fan away and told me it'd be 24 hours before it'd be out again. At this point I figured I'd go back and find it priced at something like $45 which I was definitely not going to pay, but to my surprise it went WAY down in price. Did not lessen my annoyance that I had to drive back over there again to get it. It was missing most of the blade screws. The little rubber isolators in the brackets were dried and cracking out so I removed them all completely and used a spare set of Evergo blade screws I had which fit the now-larger holes perfectly without drilling anything. Anybody know if these were marketed as a "low profile" fan? The short downrod and switch housing make me think so, as does the fact that the light kit is original and integrated. Kinda like NuTone's cheaper take on the Casablanca LCS in my opinion. It's got a ring adaptor for the recalled canopy, the oversized globe as well as the tassels are also original.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2013 17:57:28 GMT -5
Check out the 36" one I just got, it also has a factory integrated light kit!
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Post by Adam D. on Jan 1, 2014 17:47:10 GMT -5
How stupid are some of these thrift shops.. I mean someone is interested in something and they can make a possible sale, but yet they turn it down and tell you to come back another day.. I've been in a similar situation before, and a few situations at Faith Farm when I saw something I really liked in the donation bin, which never even made it out.. I don't know what kind of policies some of these places have, but It doesn't make any sense.. They could have made $20 off that fan.. Regardless of the situation, It all worked out for the best on your part and got a great deal.. I've never seen one with a switch housing like this.. It's something that I would have picked up too.. Neat fan..
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Post by Cole S. on Jan 2, 2014 0:18:47 GMT -5
I know, it's beyond frustrating. Had it been priced higher than the $20 when I went back I would have left and probably decided to never shop there again after making a point to someone that I would not return after such a fiasco. They've had some great fans but their policies are ridiculous and I hate wasting my time with them. I just wish the same people had been working the next day when I got it so I could've paid the $5 and then smeared it in their faces that they could've made $20 off me the day before if they'd just taken the damn price that was on it. It's just stupid and a waste of everyone's time to reprice an item that has a reasonable price already, a dollar in the pocket today is better than none tomorrow.
I've encountered that at Habitat too, Adam, where you see something in back or the donation area and then you never see it again. I hope every cool fan I've seen didn't go for scrap...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2014 1:21:58 GMT -5
Green Bay Habitat for Humanity has maybe one ceiling fan out for sale at a time . . . sometimes 0. They have a whole rack of them sitting in back, easily two dozen.
I asked the manager one time when they had 0 out for sale, "do you have any in back?" He said no. I said, what about that whole rack of them right behind you? He said something like, "oh I cant get to those right now"
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Post by Andrew G. on Jan 2, 2014 1:52:34 GMT -5
Green Bay Habitat for Humanity has maybe one ceiling fan out for sale at a time . . . sometimes 0. They have a whole rack of them sitting in back, easily two dozen. I asked the manager one time when they had 0 out for sale, "do you have any in back?" He said no. I said, what about that whole rack of them right behind you? He said something like, "oh I cant get to those right now" It almost sounds like your manager is a waste of life. Perhaps if you complain. . .
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2014 1:59:36 GMT -5
Green Bay is about 3 hours from me. And complain to who?
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