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6" Western Electric


Bobby Gaines

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Found this little guy a while back, No blade , no cage and no power cord. I fingered if was a lost cause but when I took it apart the armature looked great and the brushes like new. So I went to work on it. When I got it running the rotation was CC so I started looking blade for CC rotation then I realized that the rotation could be switched by rotating the brush contacts. Added a brass toggle switch on the back and cut a GE blade down to 6". Then made a little brass cage for it. I did put a 1/2 wave dido in the base to slow it down some .

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2 hours ago, Bill Dunlap said:

Nice. If you score another one of these, I've got the parts to repair these, like armature and field coils.

Thanks Bill I will keep that in mind!

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Thank all you guys for the nice comments. Sometimes I find these little fans all trashed out and even though they are not worth much I the need to bring them back some of their glory.  

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