1976 Lakewood S223 Running With A P-25 Blade Set.

[torythefanman]

i got one thing to say it sounds sweat i love these start up sounds.

[Astromchaser]

OMG THE STARTUP SOUND!!!!!! I LOVE THAT SOUND!!! It sounds just like the P-23's startup sound!!! Definatly puts my 2nd gen P-223 to shame. I noticed the blade doesn't spin quite as fast as it does with the P-25's motor.

[weasel2htm]

I'd like to see/hear those P-25 blades on your Edison (Toastmaster) Infinite Speed Box Fan. Then you could really dial in the perfect speed to get the resonate frequency of those metal blades.

[eskiewolf76]

Amazing. Simply AMAZING!!!!!! That puts both my Lakewood S-223 and my K-Mart K-223 to shame.

[akabane1984]

That P-23 blade is absolutely FLAWLESS. Nice.

[vanni9283]

The metal blade basically "amplifies" the motor.

[jukingeo]

That is wild. I remember my parents had an old Korvettes fan and it did the same thing. I miss that fan, I used to play around with it to get it to make those cool sounds. Theirs also made the sound on speed changes too. What causes that, is it the metal blades?  Is it the motor? I know I have not heard a plastic blade box fan every make that sound. But I HAVE heard it on some oscillating fans as well (with a metal blade, of course). The Korvettes fan had 4 blades, though, not 3.

[DragonFlyback256]

@jukingeo, the sound originally is created on the stator / rotor slots / rotor cage bars as the magnetic field interacts with them. Then, the shaft leads the vibrations to the blades which then amplify it by resonance.

[jukingeo]

@DragonFlyback256

So is it the combination of the motor AND the metal blades? Is it predominately the blades. So then some of these cheapie fans could make that sound too if their plastic blades were changed out to metal ones? The OP does show the original plastic blade in the video.

[DragonFlyback256]

@jukingeo, exactly; every kind of induction motors, new or old, generates some magnetic noise on the slots from a deep hum to a high pitched whine. The bigger the motor and the higher the RPM the higher the pitch is. Plastic blades generally do not resonate to this, so yes it just needs metal blades.

[FBHSswimmer2006]

i so want an old 3 bladed lakewood now. i have a vintage Roberson (rebadged 2nd generation lakewood) out in my shed but my step-father accidentally cut the plug off. i'm gonna try to restore it and get a new plug for it.

[MetalAnchor]

I like this sound so much I should steal the blades off my P-25 and put them back on the JC Penny fan.

[beauloftis1976]

For the smaller handle check out spatsbears Windsor P-23.

[MSNIMSM]

I seariusly need to find one of these.

[beauloftis1976]

Nice video! It's good to have you back Emerson! I knew this fan couldn't be early 70's because it has the later larger style handle. I learned from erik92da that plastic bladed Lakewoods probably didn't come out until like 1974 and they still had the smaller square handle and the larger handle for all their box fans like the one that's on this probably came out in late 1975 or early 1976. those blades sound great on that fan by the way.

[EmersonCollie]

The only ones I know that had the larger handles was the ones under the Dayton badge. The cabnet was also wider too. I don't know why. The motors and blade sets are the same. (P-23 metal blade set with either a GE or Lakewood motor) The Dayton badge plastic blade sets and Motors are the same too. (with either a Lakewood or Westinghouse motor) For some reason Lakewood kept the wide cabnet and bigger handles on the dayton badged ones.

[beauloftis1976]

What I meant was earlier models (made in 1975 or earlier) had a handle smaller than the one that's on yours. then later they went to the handle that yours has.

[itscool1968]

sounds exactly like my 2 p25's that i love the sound from them.

you still useing youre p25?

[tiger7577]

I'd love to get a metal blade and try this with my 2nd-gen P223. It has an awesome startup sound even with its stock plastic blade, I bet it would be even better with that metal balde!

[EmersonCollie]

It will probably sound the same. The motors dosn't really change all that much between the two models.

[tiger7577]

Will definitely have to try it then. Good to know!

[hdyudu]

thats too bad that lakewood just stop makeing the p-25 last year make me mad all that what to do now is just make the cheap ripoff junk not good

[dburrigh]

I like the cycle-down sound as you went down in speeds, Medium really has a prolonged sound to it.

[EmersonCollie]

I do too. :)

[Trance88]

Pretty cool. Sounds like the hum from the motor resonates through the metal blades creating that eerie sound. That motor seems to be able to handle that metal blade set pretty well.

[EmersonCollie]

Alot of lakewood box fans had metal blades on those same type of motors. Mostly the older ones.

[natey1112]

sounds nice, i wanna restore a fan....

[locohog91]

man urs is one year older than mine, the oldest lakewood i have is my 1976 C-122, the little blue one

[DieselPoweredHamster]

Very nice. I really need to get myself one of these box fans. Especially an older P-47. an older P-25 or a P-23.

[locohog91]

lol u had to do it withthe same fans as me, very nice, is it me or does the paint on ur S223 look different than the colr in ur demo video?

[EmersonCollie]

The lighting in that room is a little lower so my fan looks like its brown. The demo video of this fan had more light.

[mitchman2100]

Nice! I like to do this too. For the longest time I had the blades from my all metal Galaxy, on my K-223, and the other way around.

[retrochad]

That P-25 blade looks great! I just tried listening to my JC Penney model 9700 (lakewood P-223) which has a Berns Air King metal blade on it and the distinctive Lakewood startup sound is not there...it must be something about the Lakewood metal blade set itself.

[JBlair1982]

That was one of the best creepy start up sounds I've ever heard from a box fan. 5 1/2 starts!!!!!! The extra half point goes for the extra clean blades.

[Vinylrecordsneverdie]

Awesome! Sounds like the older Lakewoods with those blade and they seem to go together too.

[danielwaxmonski]

Love It 5 Stars !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[professorkiwi]

Great video! I like how you have arranged start up sounds on every speed. You're the first one I know who has presented this particular way. 5 Stars!

[EmersonCollie]

Thanks. I did that because I notice each speed has a different kind of start up sound to it.