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Evan Atkinson
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Posted: Fri Aug 8th, 2008 07:50 am |
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I'm going to be listing this 1916 GE 2-star 6 wing 16" on eBay tonight. But there's a couple of perplexing things I'd like to try and solve before doing so.
I balanced the blade. Though every wing is running as true as I can get it without a strobe light, there seems to be some 'tapping' going on, as the fan runs. It's slight, but it's there. Thought perhaps by bending the blade back into alignment, I loosened a weak rivet, but it was making the noise before I balanced the blade, it's still there, and while it may not be there initially, after the fan's been running at speed for a short time, the 'tapping" starts. I'm nearly 100% positive it's coming from the blade. Any idea what this is?
Second question is about the cage finish. The blades are brass, but the cage appears to be steel with brass plating over it, and then unoriginal black paint over that. I knew fan makers painted some of the blades and guards gold to slightly simulate brass, but this is actual plating which you can see in more than a few places on the cage. Did GE do this or was it someone's experiment?
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Russ Huber
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Posted: Fri Aug 8th, 2008 08:01 am |
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Second question is about the cage finish. The blades are brass, but the cage appears to be steel with brass plating over it, and then unoriginal black paint over that. I knew fan makers painted some of the blades and guards gold to slightly simulate brass, but this is actual plating which you can see in more than a few places on the cage. Did GE do this or was it someone's experiment~ Evan Atkinson
#1. Copper flashing under the paint
#2. I remember Doug Handley making mention many moons ago of a mix of brass and steel in a G.E. fan cage. I think he said fan cage?  By the way....is Doug still out there?
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Evan Atkinson
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Posted: Fri Aug 8th, 2008 08:07 am |
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So...this cage was copper?!  Or was the copper just an underlayer for whatever was on top...or the paint?Last edited on Fri Aug 8th, 2008 08:08 am by Evan Atkinson
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Russ Huber
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Posted: Fri Aug 8th, 2008 08:17 am |
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Evan Atkinson wrote: The copper flashing was just an underlayer for whatever was on top.
Will Guidry can show and tell copper flashing. 
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Steve Sherwood
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Posted: Fri Aug 8th, 2008 12:47 pm |
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| The noise could be from the oscillator, reassembling the oscillators on these type of fans can be a pain in the @#%$. Any worn gears or even the rotor could cause noise problems.
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Steve Stephens
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Posted: Fri Aug 8th, 2008 04:43 pm |
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| Evan, give Chris Mays a call. He's done a lot of research on GEs from 1915 up and may know about the cage finish.
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Evan Atkinson
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Posted: Fri Aug 8th, 2008 04:57 pm |
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| Thanks guys. I'll do. Really Steve Sherwood? I was working on the fan yesterday for a number of hours and discovered some genius had never put grease back in the oscillating gearbox when they "restored" it some time back. I tell ya..I thought it sounded a little knock-y and hollow! With the addition of grease, it quieted down a lot, but I didn't take the oscillator box apart at all... I thought initially the sound might be coming from the front bell of the motor housing - perhaps the rotor shaft as it went through the front case, but it really sounds like it's the blade... Oh well. It's getting sold as-is.
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