@rip10199 Well, unless you have professional spray equipment or can afford powder coating, your only economical option is spray paint. A well-done rattle can job can look as good as a professional job, and to harden the paint properly, you need to literally bake it in an oven at around 200 degrees for half an hour.
@bbishoppcm nicoting ruins all. I hope to go to like a thrift store or something and get a vintage fan. im stuck with 2009 Wexford fans =) theyre not that bad, but nowhere near the build quality of the older fans.
I'm tring to fix up a box fan but the motor is sticking and making scratching noise when I manually turn it. Does it need another motor or is there a way to fix it up?
This all depends on what's causing the motor to stick. Pull it apart, clean the shaft ends and the bearings themselves, re-oil the motor with 3-in-1 (from the BLUE can, NOT the RED can!), and see what happens!
Awesome! I like old fans for a few reasons, 1) I do not have A/C, nor do my windows have the ability to support an A/C (andersen windows), so fans are my only source for coldness. 2) Older brand-name fans are overbuilt, and as long as the bearings are still good and the wiring is intact (I always rewire them), they can literally be maintained to last for centuries (many 100+ year old fans are still in use today!), 3) Many older (pre-1960s) fans just look awesome!
yeah this fan i found looks really cool after i cleaned it, its a really nice aqua blue mettallic with a sea shell shaped base, but it needed a new plug, so i gave it one, but it needs oil and then the fuse blew, plus now the control switch fell off, and the little spindle is too hard to turn
Finally someone that hates air conditioning as much as I do. I've been looking high and low for antique fans but they go quick and antique stores think they are gold rather than steel. For now box fans in the windows suffice but I'd love to have one like this!
This makes me wish I'd saved the 1950s desk fan my dad threw out when I was a kid. He also had an equally old fluorescent lamp (the kind where you have to hold the button to start it) until its transformer burned out.
what do you mean by baked the paint? i'm considering redoing an old fan and don't want a crappy can of spray paint.
rip10199 11 months ago
@rip10199 Well, unless you have professional spray equipment or can afford powder coating, your only economical option is spray paint. A well-done rattle can job can look as good as a professional job, and to harden the paint properly, you need to literally bake it in an oven at around 200 degrees for half an hour.
bbishoppcm 11 months ago
@bbishoppcm thank you!!! i now have a summer project!!
rip10199 11 months ago
i thought you said your were gonna keep the original paint?
Dell0304 1 year ago
@Dell0304 I actually was, but the paint looked horrible... had a yellowish tint to it.
bbishoppcm 1 year ago
@bbishoppcm nicoting ruins all. I hope to go to like a thrift store or something and get a vintage fan. im stuck with 2009 Wexford fans =) theyre not that bad, but nowhere near the build quality of the older fans.
Dell0304 1 year ago
I'm tring to fix up a box fan but the motor is sticking and making scratching noise when I manually turn it. Does it need another motor or is there a way to fix it up?
mattsprinter 2 years ago
This all depends on what's causing the motor to stick. Pull it apart, clean the shaft ends and the bearings themselves, re-oil the motor with 3-in-1 (from the BLUE can, NOT the RED can!), and see what happens!
bbishoppcm 2 years ago
Thank you. I'll try it out.
mattsprinter 2 years ago
Wow! thats amazing! I found a fan from the 50's in similar shape to when you found that one and im trying to fix it
MrMoterKid 2 years ago
Awesome! I like old fans for a few reasons, 1) I do not have A/C, nor do my windows have the ability to support an A/C (andersen windows), so fans are my only source for coldness. 2) Older brand-name fans are overbuilt, and as long as the bearings are still good and the wiring is intact (I always rewire them), they can literally be maintained to last for centuries (many 100+ year old fans are still in use today!), 3) Many older (pre-1960s) fans just look awesome!
bbishoppcm 2 years ago
yeah this fan i found looks really cool after i cleaned it, its a really nice aqua blue mettallic with a sea shell shaped base, but it needed a new plug, so i gave it one, but it needs oil and then the fuse blew, plus now the control switch fell off, and the little spindle is too hard to turn
MrMoterKid 2 years ago
Finally someone that hates air conditioning as much as I do. I've been looking high and low for antique fans but they go quick and antique stores think they are gold rather than steel. For now box fans in the windows suffice but I'd love to have one like this!
rhblakeman 2 years ago
This makes me wish I'd saved the 1950s desk fan my dad threw out when I was a kid. He also had an equally old fluorescent lamp (the kind where you have to hold the button to start it) until its transformer burned out.
vwestlife 2 years ago
Very nice!!
1944johndeerel 2 years ago
that is awesome that you have saved those! I wish i could do something like that. Thanks for sharing
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