CEC Haul

[Cole S.]

Went and took all these things down from an online auction I won this morning, nine fans total and I paid a whopping $15.28 for them ALL. Was kinda fun being in that place one more time, it's way cooler than I remember it being. Lots of random fan and light fixture installs, the kind of things collectors love. Couldn't grab any pics, these people are like the Nazis of online auctions, they wouldn't let me take the three wall controls for the fans either (each control did three fans in different areas). One has a split blade held together with excessive tape, otherwise they're all in really fair condition. The one tilted to show the bottom does have all the parts, I'd just already started taking it apart for cleaning.

[fancollector12]

Sweet haul! (:

[Adam D.]

Oh My!!!

[mndoss06]

Wow, very nice Cole!

[Deleted]

Love them! I wish you could have taken pics.

[alexfanman98]

I have one hanging in my shop for testing

[Max C.]

Oct 31, 2013 15:44:30 GMT -5 Cole S. said:

These people are like the Nazis of online auctions, they wouldn't let me take the three wall controls for the fans either (each control did three fans in different areas).

That's a shame   But you did get the fans though!

[Farah]

Very nice Cole! I hope that you enjoy them!

[Adam D.]

You should have offered a little more for the controls.. Do they have a label on them? They look to be Gulf Coast Sea Breezes..

[Cole S.]

I did offer for the controls, don't think I didn't try. I figure they're not allowed to sell items that aren't on the list of things to sell, even if it is just a fan control or two. Probably could've called the building's owner, then made offers on a separate transaction, jumped through a bunch of hoops, etc. to even consider getting them. Honestly, these people annoy me, I only deal with them to get the fans. They act like they're on a pedestal and are somehow better than other people, which is ridiculous since they make a living by auctioning off mostly used junk. I don't give them any more money than I have to and I get in and out as fast as possible. When they said no for the fourth time I grabbed my stuff and walked out. They were just unmarked plain chokes in not great shape, not my biggest loss.

The only piece of useful info remaining is part of a sticker left on just one fan on which I see "DER ELECTRICAL C". I'm going to guess that's Commander. Essentially this, which is seemingly similar to the Sea Breezes: www.vintageceilingfans.com/commanderelectric52white4blade.html
Is Angel the right name for these in that case? I can't remember, nor can I find those catalog pages with the various models.

[Jean Lemieux]

Wow, awesome. I was wondering about this deal. I'm really glad you got it and at that price it's legal stealing. About a dollar and a half per fan!

If you want to sell a few of them I would love one (with shorter pole) as you already know.

So they had there five speed controllers after all?

''DER ELECTRICAL C'' would really be for Commander Electrical Corp. Yes, the name is Angel.

[Cole S.]

Yep, I've got you and Mitch in mind since you asked first.

There were three five speed controls there. Each one controlled three fans, as they were sort of installed in sets of three in various areas.


Some of these have pretty bad bearings, others aren't bad. There's one that's nearly locked up, and the nut is broken on it. I'll see what I can do with it, but being an odd one out and with broken parts (both the nut and a blade, as I'd pair the bad set with this motor) I may end up using it for parts. Seems like there's usually one of those in each set like this. I don't like to go that route but I'm not going to put a whole lot more into it than I originally paid since it would require a new set of blades at the very least.

[Jean Lemieux]

Nov 1, 2013 19:45:37 GMT -5 Cole S. said:

Yep, I've got you and Mitch in mind since you asked first.

There were three five speed controls there. Each one controlled three fans, as they were sort of installed in sets of three in various areas.


Some of these have pretty bad bearings, others aren't bad. There's one that's nearly locked up, and the nut is broken on it. I'll see what I can do with it, but being an odd one out and with broken parts (both the nut and a blade, as I'd pair the bad set with this motor) I may end up using it for parts. Seems like there's usually one of those in each set like this. I don't like to go that route but I'm not going to put a whole lot more into it than I originally paid since it would require a new set of blades.

I know these can have loud bearings as some 4 Seasons are like that but there bearings usually stay well freed up. I'm surprised that one of these could be very stiff. None of my 4 Seasons are stiff. I've only encountered stiff bearings on Hong Kong fans so far.

The controllers that comes with these are some of the best 5-speed controller I've seen. They have a pretty slow low on larger fans with a good difference between the speeds and usually don't add noises to the fan unlike the Evergo control that add a buzzing to the big brown Evergo it came with and all the speeds are too fast.

[Cole S.]

Can't say I've seen one of these anywhere near locked up before either.

I filmed the first one on an Evergo control, might switch to a DEMC one (basically the same as your 4 Seasons one) for the next one to see what it does/if it slows it down any more. It wasn't excessively fast on the Evergo, but it could definitely go slower.

[Cole S.]

Fan #1 cleaned and installed.