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And this is the Peerless....

I purchased this ceiling fan quite a number of years ago, and then left it boxed. Finally I was motivated to do some work on it and hang it with some of the rest of the fans throughout the house.

We will be celebrating our 15th anniversary of hosting the AFC Museum at Fanimation this Summer. We continue to add to the impressive collections of fans on display, fast approaching 2250 fans. All of the fans belong to members of the AFCA, which are put on loan for visitors to enjoy. We have added two items to the downstairs museum, both of which are rare and /or unusual. The first is a huge Chicago Water Motor. This thing has been laying around for several years, awaiting its turn to be readied for display. It was completely disassembled, sandblasted, painted or cleared, stencilled, and mounted to a stand. It will be lighted inside so the waterwheel is more visible. This thing is massive. The second addition is a Peerless Bipolar 16 inch fan. It's owner brought it to the Museum from out of state. He wanted to get it running, which we did, and then decided it should be displayed. We'll be doing some light cleaning on it, adding a cord and rectifier to the switch, and once determining the correct style of cage, building one for it. There was a lot of buzz about this fan a while back, as some of you may remember. Come and see it in person this summer, it'll definitely be worth the trip.

Needs buffing polish and getting the rest out of the box and assembled. A very special thanks to Kim Frank and his cake passion and earned hands on bearing skills, and just being a fine human being.

Several great Fan Meets coming up. North Jersey Breezin May 31 - Jun 1 Pig Pickin in Harrison Arkansas June 13 - 15 Chicagoland Fan Meet June 21 - 22 Come out & meet your fan family!

Thanks to Jamie and all of those who worked with him to bring us a great website. I do not use Facebook or other social media. I get most all of my fan information on the site. People that use this site have been a great help to me as well with their vast knowledge of the hobby. What each and all of you have done to improve this site has been more than above average. You have made this site to be more helpful and quite addictive. Thanks again for a job well done.

So my daughter said she didn’t want that little Jubilee fan with a pleasant breeze.She wants a big fan that puts out hurricane force winds.Be careful what you wish for!She seen it running and said,,,IS IT SAFE! My reply,,DON’T STICK YOUR FINGERS IN IT,or your hair!! Im going to ruffle some feathers on this one from the leave it original group .Im going to paint it as pink as Miss Piggy’s posterior.Thats what the daughter wants ,she will get.Im going to bling it so shades will be required to look upon it.That and I have four or five of them.I’m not about to paint one of my Westinghouse’s pink.🤬 So here’s the candidate.It was someone’s project that they Jimmy rigged the wiring I suppose to see if it would run.The blade was so out of clock you could see it at a glance.I guess they gave up at that point so I’m picking up the pieces so to speak.I hope they are all there.I do have extras like the blade on it.I have the wings back in alignment ,now I can balance it.I get to try out my Jerry Bravi balance rod. This thing is scary without the cage!! IMG_2652.mov

1900 Peerless fan motor line now includes a 12" and 16" Bipolar desk and bracket along with another model desk and bracket fan motor and ceiling fans. Peerless direct current desk and ceiling fan motors. : Vallee Bros. Electrical Company : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive If I am correct about the 1899 Peerless fan motor line above being exclusively a 12" bipolar desk model, this 16" model pictured below with a 2 rivet blade spider and sealed cast rear housing dates exclusively for the 1900 fan motor season. Changes were made in 1901 to the Bipolar model adding a 3rd guard support, 3 rivet blade hub spider, improved brush holder arrangement, and redesigned cast rear motor cover with exposed commutator.

TOM, YOU KNOW I'LL BE THERE - LOOKING FORWARD TO IT.

Nice job. This should be reprinted in the magazine, tbh.

I bought this ceiling fan for a very cheap price. I works but I need to rewire it, shorter pole extension, fix the switch. The brass cap is with the fan but I took it off because it does not fit right with the bent switch. I hope I can bend the switch back in place.

Plastic parts will be ordered tomorrow to check for final measurements before committing to metal prints.

Didn’t Piper use those in their early attempts at electric powered cubs ? I believe their downfall was putting all the batteries in the rear of the plane.

Tony Clayton makes covered wire. He’s here on this site. I’d check him out here and message him. Also Darryl Hudson always has some replacement wires. He’s a machinist and does very good work. Check him out at Hudson Custom Machining. There are a few sites online, but to be honest Tony’s wire is far superior, Darryl’s is a step above the online stuff as well. You should definitely consider joining AFCA here. It’s proved valuable to me.

Isn't kind of "Peculiar" to have a tightwad buyer driving to a town named Tightwad in his home state of Missouri?🙂

Looks like a cage I picked up at a flea market last year.

I would check your ohms between the 3 head wires with said wires disconnected from the switch assembly. Shouldn't have to spin start your fan. Might have a bad start winding. Report your ohm combinations between the 3 head wires.

Just like I really needed another belt drive, just couldn’t turn down this little 24” Emmy. This will make two 24” Emmys so probably going to fix this one up for mom’s porch. Skeeters don’t stand a chance against these things.

Blades look Victor. Looks like one of those companies that bought parts & put them together. Figured you would go after that looking like an Eskimo. 😀

The housing is cast iron.

Thanks for the quick response! I have a wiring diagram from a 24666 which I figured was the same as for the 19666, but I didn’t want to take a chance on sparks or a fire 😁 Unfortunately, the push start is still needed to get the blades spinning. At least the shock is gone 😉

Something interesting I came across in 1899 electrical trade regarding the introduction of the Peerless 12" desk fan is no mention of a 16" model or ceiling fans. All I could find in various 99 electrical trade editions were the introduction of the Peerless bipolar with a 12" blade. Also notice Peerless appears to have used the badge found on the Westinghouse Tesla patent desk fan same circa in one image. The Peerless bipolar appears to copycat a combination of same circa Westinghouse and Western Electric desk fan motor design components. It also appears the 99 and 00 Peerless models had the sealed cast brass rear motor cover, with brush holders protruding. 99 and 00 models sport a 2 rivet blade spider on both 12" and 16" models. If anyone who does research can find different in 1899 for the Peerless fan motor line, please post it here. All images date 1899.

The 1901 model bipolar motor tag sports a serial of 6,28?. Logic states the average desk fan motor manufacture in each of the 3 years the bipolar was on the market at roughly 2,000 models + or - per season.

Shown running: (Quick video): The 9 volt used is at about 80% power. At 100% power the blade upgrades itself from box type to circulator. The blade can be used for both purposes. VID_20240423_190042.3gp

No kidding!

Thanks, again, guys. I didn't even notice they were brass when I first bought them. I just knew what they were. When I did finally notice the brass, it got me to thinking. They are really pretty nice. Already drilled and threaded.

I took these in NWA today. Solar Eclipse Arkansas. Nikon D3100 with Sigma 150-600mm 5-6.3

Steve,... when you find one, be sure to hang it "by code."

That is a good score, those blades & brackets are very scarce. Great thing is it appears that switch is repairable.

Paul that is sure enough a Beast ! Look Good.

Majority of fan people here are not even within 30 miles of one another. You are placing conditions on yourself.

Evan, Thanks so much for the info. You’re right about the addiction. I bought these fans last Saturday, became a member on Sunday, and went a little crazy on Tuesday after seeing how many people collected and restored these things and how old they were. I returned to the estate sale and saved a “few” that were headed to the scrap yard. The person that collected these had to have been a member. Best I can tell his last name was Wells, living in Crosby, Tx. Paul, when is the meetup in Houston?

That 73 series is a good fan, the improved Parker is much better than the earlier style. I have made custom fans for both of my kids & they loved them.

I just got done making the new coils and installing them. The fan runs at higher RPMs. Its running at .89 amps and the temp is 123F after about 15 minutes. Still seems a bit high. Not sure if this will be an issue but if she burns out I will look for a donor coil.

Cell phone filtered with solar shield

Thanks to Mike I was able to pick up this shiny 10" Oscillating Artic Aire at Fanapalooza. No work necessary on it looked and ran great. Two fans in two fans out net gain zero, perfect in my world

Beautiful polish job!

Also thanks to Mike I was able to get this GE sign that he restored and premounted perfectly therefore saving me a few hours of my life

1899.

I've done two, the fidelity blower and a pancake coil. Both had cloth covered wire. Not sure a gram scale would be useful. That and what I wound with was enameled wire, double coated. I would imagine the coating has a weight.

The two essential tools for motor rewinding other than a winder/counter and forms are calipers and a GRAM SCALE. It makes counting turns unnecessary and winding coils near effortless.

Tom, I’ll be there Friday for setup and Saturday as usual.

I will be happy to help anyone that needs their lollipop choke coil rewound using this technique at no charge. It's not as hard as it looks but it did take a bit of work to get the hang of it. The steps are: 1. Remove the coil and put your ohm meter on the nichrome wire where it attaches to the first switch position. Put the second lead of the ohm meter at the end of the winding where it attaches to the copper wire. In other words, find the resistance of the existing wire. Mine ohm'd out at 26 ohms. 2. Remove the nichrome wire but leave the copper loop in place. 3. Buy the Kanthal wire seen above and measure out 3.5 feet and wrap that around a piece of PVC pipe without allowing the wire loops around the PVC to touch. Tape each end to the PVC and put your ohm meter on each end. Test for resistance. Cut the wire until you get 50 ohms or so by touching each end with your ohm meter. 4. Remove the wire from the PVC pipe and put a small loop in the wire at one end and wrap that around the first position of the choke coil. 5. Slowly start pulling the wire around the tower holding the wire against each leg of the tower to keep it in place before moving around the next leg of the tower where you will hold it in place with your finger (or thumb). 6. Continue until you get to the end of the wire which you will need to attach to the copper wire that is looped around the top of the tower. You won't be able to solder the Kanthal (it won't adhere to Kanthal like it does to copper), so you may have to make a small loop of copper wire to twist around the copper loop where you can attach the Kanthal. In my case, the Kanthal ended right where the copper loop was vertical. 7. Retest the ends of the Kanthal wire to assure that you have about 50 ohms of resistance. 8. Connect the tower to the fan without reinstalling it first and test that the resistance of the new wire still yields 50 ohms. The Kanthal will briefly smoke when it heats up for the first time, but only briefly so don't be alarmed. 9. Reinstall the choke coil when you are satisfied that the second speed is what you want. You can always remove a turn of the Kanthal, if the RPM's of the motor are too slow. 10. While you are doing this, you might want to consider changing out the parts behind the removeable door with Darryl Hudson's kit. Below is the original arrangement: Below is Darryl's replacement: