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Your example is a 1910-11 BMY. 08-09 has no trunnion pivot feature. 08-09 struts mount to the front motor housing. Your example also appears to have no centrifugal switch start winding which could be found on the early 1910 variant.

Ryan Cmunt, Patrick Ray, Ray Hane, Les Dobbins, Dave Northam, Robin Cook and Mark Depker reconvene Thursday night for the Florida Fan Fest, which starts Saturday, February 24. Robin and Edwin welcomed early arrivals to their home with a wonderful dinner that Robin prepared of meat loaf, mashed potatoes, bread and a pumpkin roll. Meanwhile, Randy and Rene Halbert enjoyed dinner with Terry and Peggie Wright at a popular Sarasota restaurant.

Thanks to Russ I was able to pick this up today. A little cleaning and runs great. Will be available for viewing and possibly for sale at Fanapalooza II

Dan; that is a very interesting design! I commented on your post on Facebook, as well; however now I see more and better pictures here. It's interesting that the smaller windings are concentric to each pole of the main winding, and in alternating polarity. It would seem as if they are no more than "additional turns" in the same magnetic orientation to the main winding. Regardless of what sort of phase shift happens, it is hard to understand how this could create initial rotation at startup. If they are shorted and used as shading coils, that also is confusing since they aren't offset to one side or the other to create rotation. Question from a very different angle - were there any ceiling fans which required manual starting and had no built-in self-starting capability?

What the !, Jim, you de-patina-ized it.