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OK it’s not original but isn’t that the fun part.. anyway this is my souped up north wind with brass blades and some filigree pinstriping.. another one of my mistakes, I have been trying to downsize some lately and now have to run it by the wife first.. Seems I sold something that I shouldn’t have.. Now the response I got from this little guy was absolutely not, put that back!.. Evidently I’m only allowed to sell the big ugly ones.. Problem is... I don’t have any ugly ones left..

Good morning fan friends: Recently I saw a little brass blade advertised on eBay for a polar cub. I've always been interested to improve my little polar cub so I took a chance and made an offer to the seller, which he accepted. The blade arrived yesterday and it was everything I had hoped for, but judge for yourselves. The seller shipped immediately after I paid using PayPal and the little blade arrived in a small box as advertised. I have the seller's email address if anyone is interested. I'd rather let the seller negotiate a price but I can tell you it wasn't much including shipping and it really makes this little fan special. Hope I'm not breaking any rules with this post. There is no incentive, financial or otherwise, for me.

This is a fan that has a 12" steel blade. Runs in 3 distinct speeds. I repainted it in Dupli Detroit Alpine Green and Krylon Fusion Gloss Smoke Grey. I bought a grommet kit and speed switch from Rich Raclawski. Tony Clayton dyed me a piece of zip cord. I get some vibration but for a 12' blade it pushes a lot of air. On high it runs at 3 amps. f https://youtu.be/s00IfuktKsM

Recently restored this 1948 Emerson for a client and it turned out great! He was super excited to get it back! Took a lot of work though and several hours with the stroboscope, had to put a blade back in clock. IMG_1309.MOV

Found this several years ago after leaving Geoff's Old Fan Workshop. Original motor was stamped steel/pot metal and had disintigrated. My guess is that it was originally in a chicken house or something similar. I added a rheostat to make it variable speed. I've still got to balance the blade and get the thrust washers right.

Aaron, here are the posts Michael's referring to: http://www.afcaforum.com/view_topic.php?id=33205&forum_id=1&jump_to=276223#p276223 containing the link to a YouTube video on how to make sure your coils are connected properly and that a rotating magnetic field has been set up: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z-oue39E5PA (See Posts 13 & 14.) You may need to use a moderate amount of power to start rotation. Keep your testing to a short periods of time since the coils can overheat in a hurry when the rotor is not installed. I was told by one of AFCA's motor rewinding experts that he lowered a small aluminum can suspended by a string into an energized stator to test his rewinds. Good luck and please do keep us posted.

Originally bought this fan just for the blade and the little rubber bottom.. A lot of the rubber bottoms are missing so I thought I would sell this one on eBay, Then keep the blade for another one of my bipolar projects.. The fan was very very rough but then when I found out the base was made of brass, I made a terrible mistake of telling it to my wife as interesting.. this led her to me shining it up along with the blade and then seeing what I could do with the rest of the fan.. she didn’t like the idea I was going to pitch everything because it had lasted 100 years and that what I was doing with some sort of a crime .. I did start feeling sorry for the damn thing so interestingly when the fan was done it looked really good but it had a weird problem.. low speed was nice, medium was high on most fans, and high was super fast.., after just a few seconds I thought it was going to self-destruct.. I wish I would’ve taken a video but anyway I disconnected the high and now it’s only a two speed.. I have been involved with antique fans for a long time now and I have never seen a fan run at some crazy speed as if plugged into 220 ?..The badge says 110.. style 801..is there a possibility that it’s the wrong badge on a 32 V fan.. but slow is about where it should.. So I don’t understand what’s going on.. anyway it turned out so nice that I am showing it off.. I think the brass and steel complement each other nicely..

Jon Brown and I agree the 77 was best practical fan ever made.

There are two gear lids, one above and one below the nose that screw onto the gear covers. After 100 years they are frequently stuck and don’t want to unscrew. Each lid has two holes which are on opposite sides of the lid. A spanner wrench fits into those two holes and enables one to exert enough torque to loosen the lid so that it will unscrew. I don’t have a spanner wrench and they are pretty pricey ($70+) so Darryl’s trick is to find the right drill bit that fits snugly into one of the two holes (the non cutting end of the bit) and then tap the base of the bit with a tack hammer and flat nail set in the direction that you want to go to loosen the lid. A couple of taps is all that is needed to get the lid to start turning. It’s a neat trick! Thank you to Darryl for this assist.