Steve Rockwell Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 (edited) Has anyone run into this while disassembling a Pancake? It carries the typical data as seen in later base plate instruction sheets: tag designation, L-10074; date of printing, 24 Mar 1906; number of labels printed, 100,000 (and that's huge compared to other runs, to the point of being dubious). The item number 2874X is the greatest puzzler of all... What were they getting at, since the motor frame presumably carried a brass cage denoting pertinent info, it was only years later they would include model number... Perhaps it's an inspector's tag, and the 2874X number is a person's identifier, which is a very unsatisfying low-probability explanation for the high number of tags... I can't find any such number (2874X) applied to a fan, and this is the only listing I found with 2874... no good answers at present... Again, has anyone seen such an item? Edited March 1 by Steve Rockwell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicholas Denney Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 Yes! I actually have seen one of those, and funnily enough I thought it didn't belong, but I left it. Was very thin paper and faded red ink. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Borg Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 I want to say yes also. Trying to recall if pancake or bmy. Will look for pics and post if I locate... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Rockwell Posted March 3 Author Share Posted March 3 (edited) There's another possible explanation for the 2874X number, which might be suggested within this photo of the fan motor... but I have no means to prove or disprove... Edited March 3 by Steve Rockwell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Kim Frank Posted March 4 Share Posted March 4 (edited) I've seen that label on many pancake stators. I just figured it was a catalog or part number in case of reordering. I've seen similar labels on choke coils. Edited March 4 by Kim Frank Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Rockwell Posted March 4 Author Share Posted March 4 That's a better explanation than mine..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicholas Denney Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 Thinking back on this again, it's asking a bit too much of GE to have clarity and coherence in their numbering systems. A key example of this is the Cat. Number of 44986 that they assigned to multiple, dissimilar ceiling fans over the course of about a decade. The number corresponds to a bottom mount, a top mount, and a 6 blade ceiling fan. The only thing in common between these 3 fans is that they were available in 110v 60Hz... absolutely no parts in common! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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