Re-Conditioning a 10” Oscillating Emerson Jr. (1929)

[Darwin Costello]

Great article!  I just spent the last 1/2 hour printing it out.  Excellent suggestion on putting it in the magazine.  
 

Thanks so much! 

[George Grant]

Darwin - 
Thank you, and I hope the printout proves useful. But man, half an hour to print the post? Maybe I've completely forgotten but that seems to be dot matrix speed! 

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Scanning back through the original post, I have updates but will only include these (2):

1. Plastic Washers
The plastic washer on the tilt knuckle failed, but that was not unexpected. Of course, the best application for plastic washers is on parts that don't move.

The motor on this fan is deceptively heavy, so when the wingnut is loosened and I don't have a firm grip on the motor, it flops over in an instant and with no warning - (making a disturbing heavy thud). While it lasted the plastic washer provided a bit of control over the flop so perhaps I'll try installing a leather washer to see if that works better and lasts longer. Not sure if the leather on my old work boots are the right thickness. We'll see.

2. My Experience - Electrolysis vs. Evapo-Rust
I was late in discovering the effectiveness of Evapo-Rust, which was after the original post. I still like electrolysis and will continue to use it for some projects such as large pieces, but it has one drawback in comparison to Evapo-Rust - and that is it only works where there is a line-of-sight to the electrodes. So there will be little, partial, or no rust removal on any surface not directly facing an electrode. Of course that means electrolysis won't remove hidden corrosion such as inside a rolled edge or inside a tube (like a Coleman lantern burner tube).  

On the other hand, drop a part into Evapo-Rust and the liquid (water consistency) removes rust from every surface it can reach.

Note: Evapo-Rust has almost no odor, is safe on skin in my experience (though the mfr. suggests gloves) and can be re-used over and over again until it stops working. But keep it covered as it does evaporate. It is an 'ENVIRONMENTALLY SAFE, WATER BASED CORROSION REMOVER' and 'does not harm paint but you should avoid paints with oxides'.
Technical Data Sheet: https://biosolutionsllc.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Mark-Lackner-Evaporust-TDS-2018-05-01.pdf

[George Durbin]

On 8/22/2023 at 3:36 PM, George Grant said:

Wow. What on earth are you going to do with all those fans, George? Are they all 'projects' that you're getting to a little at a time? Or do they already mostly run as intended, and that's good enough? And if you plugged them in all at once, would you be reading this in the dark, on your cell phone?

A great article worthy of THE AFCA magazine! I tried plugging all of them once blowing in the same direction and NOAH contacted me saying I was slowing the rotation of the earth and to cut it out or I would be getting a visit! Those NOAH guys are way to serious about things like that! 

[Darwin Costello]

On 9/24/2024 at 8:22 PM, George Grant said:

Darwin - 
Thank you, and I hope the printout proves useful. But man, half an hour to print the post? Maybe I've completely forgotten but that seems to be dot matrix speed! 

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Scanning back through the original post, I have updates but will only include these (2):

1. Plastic Washers
The plastic washer on the tilt knuckle failed, but that was not unexpected. Of course, the best application for plastic washers is on parts that don't move.

The motor on this fan is deceptively heavy, so when the wingnut is loosened and I don't have a firm grip on the motor, it flops over in an instant and with no warning - (making a disturbing heavy thud). While it lasted the plastic washer provided a bit of control over the flop so perhaps I'll try installing a leather washer to see if that works better and lasts longer. Not sure if the leather on my old work boots are the right thickness. We'll see.

2. My Experience - Electrolysis vs. Evapo-Rust
I was late in discovering the effectiveness of Evapo-Rust, which was after the original post. I still like electrolysis and will continue to use it for some projects such as large pieces, but it has one drawback in comparison to Evapo-Rust - and that is it only works where there is a line-of-sight to the electrodes. So there will be little, partial, or no rust removal on any surface not directly facing an electrode. Of course that means electrolysis won't remove hidden corrosion such as inside a rolled edge or inside a tube (like a Coleman lantern burner tube).  

On the other hand, drop a part into Evapo-Rust and the liquid (water consistency) removes rust from every surface it can reach.

Note: Evapo-Rust has almost no odor, is safe on skin in my experience (though the mfr. suggests gloves) and can be re-used over and over again until it stops working. But keep it covered as it does evaporate. It is an 'ENVIRONMENTALLY SAFE, WATER BASED CORROSION REMOVER' and 'does not harm paint but you should avoid paints with oxides'.
Technical Data Sheet: https://biosolutionsllc.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Mark-Lackner-Evaporust-TDS-2018-05-01.pdf

I screen capture and printed the photo in color.  Your article was definitely worthy of color print.  A 1/2 might have been a slight exaggeration, but I was reading it as I printed.  Thanks again. Dar