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LOL! I like putting lipstick on a Pig!

Yes, I'm thinking that type of insulation and sleeving look original to me. (I'm old, so no guarantees.) If you've got the time and the inclination to do so, It would be nice of you to sketch up a wiring diagram, and measure the resistances, and measure the amps or watts and write down fan and motor information: Blade diameter, Number of wings, anything that might help someone troubleshoot the fan. Put your name & date on your sketch, scan, or take a picture of it and submit as a .pdf file to Jamie Horner?? to add to my old wiring diagrams file... Future fan guys will appreciate your efforts! I would give you a gold star right now, and a free wish on your favorite holiday!😇

Keep up the good work Louis! Don't deal with naysayers as they are not worth it... 99% of the AFCA Appreciate your efforts! If anyone here can do this stuff better then stop whining and DO IT!! As my wife says members can act like pissy little girls at times! Good rule is if ya got nothing nice to say, keep it to yourself and work it out!... We are all volunteers here... VP Geo...

I have a couple of the last batch of bronze gearboxes which I gladly paid for. They will be gorgeous when done. Analysis by an experienced machinist who's been involved with several generations of kidney box reproductions, one in brass and another in aluminum revealed the followoing: the bronze batch had enough shrinkage in material thru the casting prrocedure that the appearance of where holes should be drilled in the unfinished castings is not where the holes should be for the gears to match up to the motor shaft and worm gear. Looks like each box will have to be machined starting with the mounting holes to the back of the fan motor then working from that to measure the accurate placement of the mounting holes for the rest of the gears with the box attached to the fan and wormgear in place. May also need some reaming out of the sides of the box for lateral geartooth clearance. If any boxes have already been drilled by the appearance of hole positions in the raw castings, they can be salvaged by machining a plug to braze the holes shut and then remachining as mentioned above. This will be an additional expense no doubt, but I think will only increase the intrinsic value of this production run of Good Enough fans. Thanks again Louis for tackling a project(s) with unavoidable variables, unknown until the work is done, just for fun, squeezed into your spare time around your day job.

Any thing is possible in the 1949-1950 years. Using up old supplies before actually making the new ones, common practice with all manufacturers. I’ve had a much lighter blue/gray 12” with the early style cage & red badge. I’ve not seen that color you posted on anything in person.