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One of the wings is probably too heavy from the plating. You can buy a long rod of correct diameter for the hub from ACE and dynamically balance the blade on a Dubro balancer. The heavy wing will drop to the bottom. You can carefully shave/sand small metal surface from the back of the wing until the wing stops to drop . You must have some jing in plating that blade. I would try to salvage it.

Rechromed a real rusty one, but can't get it to balance. Trying to hunt a mid 30s S60 blade that isn't completely rusted out.

The photo is dated 29 Mar 1911; the label in the photo is dated 2 Dec 1910. ~ Steve Rockwell If the image you shared below is dated accurately, that means just when GE implemented the profile brass struts and brass stator screws is a crap shoot between 1911-1912. There sure are a lot of GE stationery and oscillating kidneys with stator studs and hex brass nuts. GE fan motor evolution makes me nuts. 🙂

GE profile struts MAY have been implemented between 1911-1912. Early 1912 appears to support them. Stator studs with brass acorns offered all 4 years, however, check out part Rb(screw for motor cap direct current) introduced in 12 and present through 14. It APPEARS EARLY 1911 models had stator bolts with brass hex nuts, or so it was intended. 1911 1912 1913 1914

Good response today!

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So I took a trip down Memory Lane recently. Up in Oxnard there was this barn market (called Donlon Farms back then) that we used to go to when I was a little kid. Back then I was fascinated by fans (I still am) and this place had box fans hung over the front doors to keep flies out. There was also a shutter vent fan over the doors off to one side. The box fans were Hunters with the metal blades, but I don't know the maker of the vent fan. The building was put up in 1970 and the fans were likely installed then. I went back to this place recently, it's now a Mexican market. When I rolled up I still saw the shutter and wondered if that old fan unit was still there. And it was! It appears to have remained untouched. The Hunter box fans are long gone, but the mount standoffs remain. Here are some pictures

Sometimes when repainting non black and needing to remove first use toilet bowl cleaner. Almost instantly removes the black oxide

You’re awesome, thank you Patrick!

PM me your address. I've got bags full of them. I'll send one your way!

My 1510 rotor has a fragment of some kind of large o-ring or flat gasket where the blade hub would screw down and seat fully against the rotor face. There’s a shallow recessed groove. Does anyone know where to get these? Mine is clearly in need of replacement.

I'll just address this one item: Is it safe to state that nobody can clearly validate when GE profile struts were implemented between 1911 and 1913? The GE Survey from the INFO section continues to amaze... Sure, some things need updating, but the bulk of it only seems to be confirmed more and more with time... a really fine effort. The photo is dated 29 Mar 1911; the label in the photo is dated 2 Dec 1910. All 1910 images I've checked have flat stock struts; later 1911 pics have profile struts, and essentially all 1912 pics (quickly) surveyed had the profile struts. Whether those 1911 profile-strutted fans went to market 1911 or were being prepared for 1912 release will require further investigation, though it's believable that fans in 1911, some at least, carried that feature... I suspect that many or most were still flat-strutted...

Will be in the next order.

I'll take the bigger ones too! And the kidney will be mailed next week! I got instructions from Kim Frank today to ship it without destroying it!! My man! U gonna be busy!!

The archival close-up picture above my latest post is the Diehl switch ball I was discussing. Here is the Western Electric Louis XV switch ball. Cast brass top and bottom, different design.

Also sent funds to George.

I think that’s a Western Electric switch ball.

Did the tornado/high winds affect you? ~Sparky~

Bouncing this back to the top! Time to get your raffle tickets here! Geo...

Interesting how pictures can be deceiving! The lower half of this Diehl switch ball is actually spun brass, pressed with a matching ornate pattern to the top half of the ball which is cast iron. I have not been familiar with early ceiling fan switch housings/light clusters made this way. Standard porcelain rotary switches have a stamped brass cover, sure, but the Western Electric Louis XV Standard switch ball (in this thread) is solid cast brass, both top and bottom halves. Nothing in the Diehl catalogs state this. Even these fantastic pictures don't really show it. But @Jack Minor found a very early Diehl AC ceiling fan (he should post his awesome find in new thread). His fan shines a new light on the mystery of why all Diehl #45's found thus far only have half of their switch housing intact. The lower half of the ball (also unlike the Western Electric Standard) has no screws to hold it to the top half of the ball, but is only held in place by the switch knob and stem. These lower covers must have been extremely fragile, easily susceptible to damage.

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