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Finally got a chance to add this to my collection.  Seems most of my fan are found on a bed truck.  Too bad they did not make a 16 inch Kidney fan.

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1 hour ago, Louis Luu said:

"Too bad they did not make a 16 inch Kidney fan."

 

*Cough *Cough
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2 minutes ago, Alex Koh said:

*Cough *Cough
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Sorry....I meant 6 blade.  I do have the 16 inch 4 blade.

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Just now, Louis Luu said:

Sorry....I meant 6 blade.  I do have the 16 inch 4 blade.

Wait they didn't make a residence 16in?

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2 minutes ago, Alex Koh said:

Wait they didn't make a residence 16in?

Not for the Kidney fan.

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     Louis' tag reads [edit:should] 146079.    Some of them were also stamped Q3, some not.....

 

            Correction: It may not carry the 146079 designation either, just serial number, volts & cycles...

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     Absolutely fits in the range of known (to me) 16-inch collar residence fans...

 

   As for the kidney question, depends what you consider to be a kidney fan...

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     Personally, I prefer the version with the handle cast in the frame, but "kidney fan" often seems to refer to the earlier loops without handle.

     I have never seen one a kidney residence in 16-inch size though...

 

   In the recent AntiqueFanParts Don Eckerson Sale there was a collar fan with a handle-- it disappeared from the listing, apparently denoting sale. Though the handle appears to have been from a pre-payment fan (due to its being stamped with a number) there were, for a very brief time it appears, collar fan motor frames which were tapped to accommodate such a handle, and that I believe is a true rarity...

 

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I believe kidney oscillator refers to the shape of the gearbox regardless of whether  the fan has a handle or not.

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1 hour ago, Steve Rockwell said:

   

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  I have never seen a kidney residence in 16-inch size though...

 

 

 

Me either. Electrical trade even supports them.

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16 minutes ago, Russ Huber said:

Me either. Electrical trade even supports them.

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I will add, the Electrical Record prints what the manufacturer sends to them. The ticket would be finding 1914 electrical trade actually supporting them on the market. Images would be nice along with that.

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On 7/11/2023 at 9:18 AM, Steve Rockwell said:

     Absolutely fits in the range of known (to me) 16-inch collar residence fans...

 

   As for the kidney question, depends what you consider to be a kidney fan...

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     Personally, I prefer the version with the handle cast in the frame, but "kidney fan" often seems to refer to the earlier loops without handle.

     I have never seen one a kidney residence in 16-inch size though...

 

   In the recent AntiqueFanParts Don Eckerson Sale there was a collar fan with a handle-- it disappeared from the listing, apparently denoting sale. Though the handle appears to have been from a pre-payment fan (due to its being stamped with a number) there were, for a very brief time it appears, collar fan motor frames which were tapped to accommodate such a handle, and that I believe is a true rarity...

 

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I was the one that bought that fan from Chad,  where did the first picture come from?  I believe Louis's 12 inch 6 wing also had the holes to have a handle.

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     Congratulations on your purchase. What do you think about the pre-payment-fan-handle theory? That's a GE photo. You're correct about Louis' fan being drilled and tapped, though that is a surprising circumstance for such an early example -- which came from the beginning the collar production line, low serial number 919458. That fan is also surprising for being a first batch residence fan, but with handle holes !!?!... The factory photo I posted carried number 934220 compared with your 934208 in Chad's image, and it makes sense they are close to each other, whereas Louis' is something of an anomaly... At present, these three are the only tapped fans of which I'm aware; 934220 is a standard 4-wing GE 75423, and it will be interesting to learn whether your fan is a 78777 slow motor residence in fact.....

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