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Cool, Rocky! Ever toy with UV LED strips?

Right about the time Tom mentioned, there was a BF Goodrich store behind my family's gas station garage. They had one of these fans nearly identical to yours for $18 in the showroom. I tried my best to raise enough money mowing yards to buy it. Never got that $18.

mystery vent hole?

Thanks to Bill for saving base and new blade If anyone going to fanfair has brush caps and/or cage with two struts I would be interested

Working on these toy motors feeling good having fun getting stuff done...

Why am I thinking AFCA Mascot?

Points straight up to get the proper height to make the base glow well and very evenly...

Hello friends, I have asked Pat, our editor extraordinaire to delay publication of the August Fan Collector to mid August so we can bring you the latest from Fan Fair & from the various meetings. Thank you for understanding.

No way to put the socket on the side of the box instead of the bottom or does the bulb point straight up?

Hi Geoff! The nice thing about the UV bulb is it is LED And only runs at 6 watts... It can be on all day and not get warm! I am looking for a source for smaller UV bulbs so I can make the base shallower so it is not as tall... The bulb is a standard size bulb with a medium base... Green kryptonite was bad news for Superman I believe!

Hey George, that clever device looks as if it would completely drain the wind out of Superman's sails !!

That would have been Trevor Soundararagen. Steve's post gives a good clear example of Centurt's 1st of 3 S-3 oscillator devices.

You look like a kid at Christmas George.Thats a really nice fan.

I have a few of the later all brass switch bodies if you need one. You'd just need a nichrome coil of some sort. I looked at an 8" DC GE I have and it has the later brush holder setups. That brush assembly is reminiscent of the GE pancake assemblies. I would have to say it predates the all brass for certain although my DC has a similar if not same base.

BE CAREFUL SPINNING THE SIDE 360 YOU DONT TWIST THE WIRE WHERE IT GOES IN. I **HOPE** IN YOUR BOX ARE THE USUALLY LOST WING PANEL PIECES (CHECK THE PACKING THEY ARE SMALL). I AM SURE SOMEONE HERE HAS A PARTS VERSION AND CAN SUPPLY YOU TWO OF THE THUMB WHEELS ...THE BOX LOOKS GREAT!

Yeah ima geek! Got this Manhatten number 3 nearly finished! Need to clean to show pinstripes better, attach the base I made from a piece of walnut I found in a barn... The feet are copper door knobs from another old house I recovered them from... Check out the cage and blade Bill Dunlap made for this beauty! As I told Bill the only thing that coulda made this better is if I went to Pukalani Hawaii and picked it up myself! Dang this thing is sooooo cool! What year is this #3?

It reminds me of a Emerson North wind but its a GE

I got lucky. I just took some time to test the motor. She a runner.

Thanks, Steve. The Fort Wayne is a different animal. The example you posted is an AC brushless induction motor. The switch would not apply to my brushed Universal motor GE example. What I bet might work in my fan is a Westinghouse 8" all brass brushed motor AC switch.

WOA is work of art! I still have a few of these brass cut outs left to make a sign in sheet for those attending Fan Fair... This year it will a barn siding frame from a barn built in 1870... After it is signed we auction it off at the Saturday auction and ALL PROCEEDS GO TO THE AFCA! Oscar helped me by baptizing it thoroughly and is now drying in the sun! THOSE WHO HAVE NOT BOUGHT TICKET FOR THE BEAUTIFUL COIN OP FAN HIT ME UP!

The tag may have simply read "Eck Fan Motor" in 1903-04. Stephen Osdene has posted in past a first-generation Universal Eck, but his has no tag to validate how early it is. They were on the market 1903-07 if memory serves me right.

The "Universal"

8-inch GE Fan Switch. Russ, I'd guess that we're seeing GE's early effort at producing the 8-inch fan, which gained a loop and round back in its oscillating version, and profile struts by 1911. Michael's comment about the cage is astute, as is your anticipation of it... and it's about this time, circa 1909, that the fans changed from wire struts to stock, and of course there's the face-mount feature to the struts... For me, it'll have to wait until tonight to get at GE and Fort Wayne info... Fort Wayne neck hardware

Eck "Hurricane" trademark name was owned by Goldmark & Wallace. The proof of this was when Eck in 1903 dropped the G & W agency and sold direct from the factory. Eck fans from 1903-04 for sure were not marketed under the Hurricane name. Eck reestablished with G & W in 1905. So, the "Hurricane" name was established in 1897 when Eck took on the G & W agency, no Hurricane name 03-04 for sure, reestablished G & W "Hurricane" in 05 forward.