Leaderboard

The shaft is pressed in. Tremendous amount of force to remove and likely could damage the casting. Additionally everything that is machined is relative to that shaft location and changing that would likely throw off that as well. Most folks simply remove the insulation paper and clean around the shaft and the outside of the oil ports with solvent. Using gun bore type cleaning tools and solvent you can adequately clean the ID of the shaft. Highly recommend not trying to press out that shaft! ...........Dan H.

I 2nd that emotion. Good way to knock out the back of the motor casting as well

You can just use a one-sided razor to hopefully carefully lift up that insulator to save it. I use a pistol cleaning rod with handle and correct diameter brass bristle brush with cleaning solvent to ream out the bearing shaft crud. Soaking the housing in parts cleaner will break down that caked on crud (take the motor tag off before/if you soak it in parts cleaner). The black finish as you know is tough as nails and can hack the solvent soak. The painted letters on the back of the housing may be lost but can be redone.

Try soaking the bearing in a jar of lacquer thinner overnight. Just make sure to let the bearing sit for a while to fully dry before reinstalling.

Thanks to Louis and his generosity, I now have a big Verity's. I have a couple of the little guys, but this is my first large orbit fan. I ended up restoring it because it appeared to me to have been restored at some point. It was in pretty good condition aside from the paint and covered in a thick layer of deposits of some kind. Under the crust, the chrome looks nearly new, so nothing has bee rechromed, included the screws. The rubber feet and grommets were nice enough to re-use after soaking in AFT overnight to soften them. A note of caution for anyone going to restore one of these. The paint is near indestructible and withstood soaking in paint remover and my torch. Only soaking in lacquer thinner got it soft enough to remove with a wire wheel. That was a whole day stripping paint. I manage to nail the color with powder coat from Prismatic Powders, also. The speed label I made on my computer. It runs rather slow, I think, even though there is no drag on the parts, it ohms out OK and draws about 10% over the rated wattage. I think it's down to 50 vs 60 cycles. No worries, though, as 16 inch fans typically run too fast to use in my place. So after it warmed up to a crisp 63 degrees this morning, I made a short video of it. Cheers, Bill

I found this vornado 16pb1 pedestal on my local offer up, it only runs on one speed right now and I can not get the pedestal to raise , other then that and some rust on the base , it is in decent condition

👍

My 16" also runs slow or at least slower than other fans. 20220827_192455.mp4