Mathes Cooler Wooden Cabinet Vintage Electric Fan (Part 1)

Here, I show the fan before repairs. This is a wooden cabinet fan I got from the antique store you can see in the other videos. The motor was completely burned inside so I substituted in another very similar motor.

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Science & Technology

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• Mathes
• Cooler
• Wooden
• Cabinet
• Vintage
• Electric
• fan
• repairs
• antique
• appliance
• motor

[mrfanman2u]

hey chad.

I had a mathes cooler fan just like this when i was younger. the wood rotted away but i kept the motor. This is a childhood fan for me, and I want another one.

FYI, don't use medium and low speed with the bigger motor it probably draws more amperage and will burn out the coil.

[retrochad]

I hope you can find another fan! I actually bypassed the entire switch and transformer circuit and hooked the new power cord right to the motor. The speed transformer did not seem to vary the speed when I tested it on the new motor.

[legogamecreator]

Did you try to fit the rotor from the old burned out motor to the new universal brand motor and did you try again to turn the screw on it and mabe it will come loose for you so keep trying it and mabe someday it will come loose and did you check the auto transformer for any problems with speeds?

[retrochad]

Actually I wasn't able to get the blade off the Universal motor...since the performance was good I just decided to leave it on. The fan is still working well.

[westytoploader]

Great fan, I've seen a couple of these at antique shops (seem to be common here in Texas I guess) but they were too high priced so I passed them up. I wonder how the motor burned up like that...lack of lubrication?

[retrochad]

I wonder that myself, how it go so burned. Could be from lack of lubrication or something else which caused it to quit turning...it must have been left unattended and just heated up till the winding wire melted open. Usually in modern fan motors there will be a thermal fuse to keep it from completely burning up like this. Also the rotor does not turn freely in the armature, almost like the heat warped something to bind it up.

[howboutkim]

where are you located at. please contact me at (909) 474-1202

[lSulkis]

If you never got that old Mathes running again, I'd like to replace the switch and transformer on mine. I inheireted mine from my granddad. What would you want for the switch?

[uxwbill]

Ouch! That poor old motor sure didn't die quietly. I wonder if someone left it powered and didn't notice that it had locked up? (Can't imagine what else would have so thorougly toasted it.)

I do like the cabinet and especially the front grille, however.

[lexmarks567]

hi it looks like the original motor caught fire.

[isethaitchison]

i prefer high speed rather than variable speed because the more air running through the motor, less heat, longer lasting, that maybe why it burned up, running on low for a long time the motor got so hot that it went poof. i put a dimmer switch on my 12" fan and the motor started to get hot and it is a vented one.

[tulsawild]

I have a very old fan built in a wooden cabinet that's about the size of a small nightstand. Its marked with a company logo, the company is Mimms and its a Model D with 3 speeds. The motor has a place to add oil. I have contacted the Fan Museum on Ohio and they have never heard of such a fan. Any ideas?

[coolbluelights]

wow I wonder why it burned out so catastrophically? someone must have left it plugged in and it just seized up and fried

[legogamecreator]

did you look at the size of the rotor and shaft and i have a K-Mart K-14X and its blades were stuck on the shaft and i had done what you did to the Air King and it came off you should try to put some WD-40 on it cause i use that for all my fans that have a stuck blades on it. and could you reply to any of my messages.