GE original instructions

[Terry Plata]

My wife's hairdresser has this amazingly original early GE collecting dust on a top shelf but not interested in selling! Even though I was not able to sneak this out of her house I was able to snap a few photos. Interesting that number one direction is to remove the bottom plate and connect a power cord!

Terry P

[John Landstrom]

Wonder if it’s securely attached.  If you could talk her into letting you have another peek and it’s almost free of the base plate maybe she’d let you copy it.  (Flattened out of course).  I’m sure someone here has the talent to reproduce it on vintage paper.   Be a nice addition to anyone’s fan of that era.  
 

Or you could just send me her address and deny all knowledge when it turns up missing……and you buy it on ‘stolen-bay’.    
 

Nah….I’ll just look in awe at something I’d love to have and restore.

[Kim Frank]

That's a nice example. A bit of cage straightening and cleaning is all that's needed.

[Terry Plata]

John, I will be back at her house in late November and try to set up a better shot. Is that the sale price printed in faded blue? $12.00???? I'll take it! But that was a bunch of money back in the day when labor was paying like a dollar a day.

[Terry Plata]

Kim, I just about freaked when I saw that fan just sitting there. This thing is NICE. I offered $100 on the spot, no go. She has never plugged it in!!! Warning, don't go over there, she has a watch kitty protecting the premises. You could get rubbed to death.

[Steve Rockwell]

35 minutes ago, Terry Plata said:

John, I will be back at her house in late November and try to set up a better shot.

          

 

                                       

 

       

 

[Doug Wendel]

About 1998-2000 or so I recreated the instruction lables for several of the GE fans -- BMY, 2-star, 3-star, and a couple of others.  They were perfect -- fonts, kerning, spacing, totally identical to orginal.  I created them using a c.1997 version of Microsoft Publisher.  At some point I made PDFs of them and gave those away.  Getting back into fans after all of these years, I still have the MSPublisher files, but for some reason I didn't keep any PDFs.  Now I can't open the Publisher files as the program has been discontinued for decades.  I've seen someone selling prints of my labels on eBay.  Does anyone out there still have copies of the PDFs that they would be willing to email to me?

Edited October 24, 2023 by Doug Wendel

[Jim Henderson]

I thought Antique Fan Parts offered  reproduction instruction  labels for GE BMY/SMYs?

[Terry Plata]

Attached is a shot of the tag on that GE. The serial number is barely legible. Better pictures upon my next vist in December. Stand by!

[Terry Plata]

Looking at the original photo, zoomed in the serial number looks like 310863. If anyone finds that new copy of the instruction sheet I would like a couple. I have a two star and a brass bell that could use them.

Thanks,

Terry Plata

Edited October 25, 2023 by Terry Plata

[Stan Adams]

Terry, you mentioned it instructed you to connect the cord, early fans did not come with a cord. The electrical company selling them or the electrician would install a cord when they wired it in for you. Not sure when cords became standard equipment, but the early ones did not come with it.

[Lane Shirey]

16 hours ago, Doug Wendel said:

About 1998-2000 or so I recreated the instruction lables for several of the GE fans -- BMY, 2-star, 3-star, and a couple of others.  They were perfect -- fonts, kerning, spacing, totally identical to orginal.  I created them using a c.1997 version of Microsoft Publisher.  At some point I made PDFs of them and gave those away.  Getting back into fans after all of these years, I still have the MSPublisher files, but for some reason I didn't keep any PDFs.  Now I can't open the Publisher files as the program has been discontinued for decades.  I've seen someone selling prints of my labels on eBay.  Does anyone out there still have copies of the PDFs that they would be willing to email to me?

Doug, I’ll have to dig, but I might at lease have the images of your reproduced instruction sheets. I’ll look over the weekend. 

[Steve Rockwell]

     Terry,   That won't be a "310" at the front, which number would be pre-BMY... And of course, brass profile struts side-mounted push the date of inception further back than the first flocks of the new non-Pancake motors...

 

   Doug, is this one yours?

     I plucked that image 13 Jun 2016, can't say when it was posted in the Old Forum...

 

     I'm curious about Terry's date lower-right date just for the sake of linking serial number to it, but the text in this image is consonant if not identical... I have some other original pics, but for the sake of some version of correctness, we ought to get the original printed date... and yes, Jim, I recently noticed labels among AFPs offerings..... 

[Doug Wendel]

Yes, that looks like mine.  Thank you.  I made several variations based off originals and used the dates in the lower right corner that I found on the originals.

I just went to AFP site and looked at his labels.  Those first three GE labels they are from my artwork.  I distinctly remember the 3-star label having the hole in the center and making that template to cut it out.  I bought a specific large hole punch, in fact.  I'd stil love to find PDFs of all three labels.  I also made a 24xxx Emerson instruction label back in the day, lost to the obsolete software as well.

[Lane Shirey]

Call Chad, I’m sure he’d send you the pdfs since he “borrowed “ your artwork. 

Edited October 25, 2023 by Lane Shirey

[Terry Plata]

My next visit to "the fan" will be on December 7th and I guarantee more time will be spent inspecting that GE especially the serial number. But since we now have Doug's clear instruction sheet no need to spend time there. I know it's a long wait but stand by.

Terry

[Steven P Dempsey]

This SMY had (most) the original paper instructions on base, sold