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Post# 888327   7/6/2016 at 01:09 (2,849 days old) by Stricklybojack (South Hams Devon UK)        

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Anybody ever use one of these, how do they work?


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Post# 888331 , Reply# 1   7/6/2016 at 01:23 (2,849 days old) by toploader55 (Massachusetts Sand Bar, Cape Cod)        

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Those are so cool And they move quite a bit of air.

Just keep in mind it was made when things were well built and actually worked.


Post# 888362 , Reply# 2   7/6/2016 at 07:30 (2,848 days old) by fan-of-fans (Florida)        

There's two blades on this model fan, one has a hub and separate blades, the other is a stamped one-piece type. I think it takes air from the grill on top and blows it out the sides. Most fans of this type have the top solid with one blade and take air from the floor and blow it out the sides. The idea being I guess that the air at the floor was cooler than the rest of the room, and blowing out the sides was less likely to create a draft.

Post# 888369 , Reply# 3   7/6/2016 at 07:52 (2,848 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI)        

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I love those fans & somehow, I can visualize having one for a relatively short time--it was woodgrain, and the cord one it surely could have benefitted from replacement... (Mom must have made me get rid of it, as in donating it to the type of place that I'd just bought that one at...!)

 

Then again, I might be getting it mixed up with a silver-metal box fan, the neighbors across the street were throwing away, also w/ a worn power cord & the switch had a bad short in it, as it worked rather intermittently, so we put it on our lawn for the garbage man, afterwards (though someone really handy probably might have saved it that time)...

 

 

 

-- Dave


Post# 888381 , Reply# 4   7/6/2016 at 08:51 (2,848 days old) by yOGITUNES (New Jersey)        

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I have two, these are spectacular.....sort of the equivalent of a ceiling fan, in reverse locations....

placed under a coffee table or dining room table, provides a great breeze for your undercarriage.....

sort of reminds me of cars when they had a vent under the steering wheel to provide a cool breeze up the leg opening of your shorts....

the one posted I a unique design as pulling air from the top.....my opinion, way over priced....


Post# 888561 , Reply# 5   7/7/2016 at 20:02 (2,847 days old) by appnut (TX)        

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One of my grandmothers had one of these when I was about 4 or 5 years old. 


Post# 888631 , Reply# 6   7/8/2016 at 16:13 (2,846 days old) by dynaflow (rockingham nc)        
still

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use mine in the bedroom

Post# 888710 , Reply# 7   7/9/2016 at 07:32 (2,845 days old) by kimball455 (Cape May, NJ)        

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I have a Kenmore version of the fan. It is a bit unusual in that it has 4 speeds, an ultra low for sleeping. They were the precursor of the ceiling fan. Pre AC all kinds of innovate fan designs were on the market. The idea was, as mention earlier, to move cooler air from the floor around the room. On high they move an amazing amount of air. Here is a link to the Antique Fan museum.

This week in Cape May you need all the cooling you could come up with.

Harry


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Post# 888804 , Reply# 8   7/9/2016 at 20:47 (2,845 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)        
As mentioned by others

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These can move a lot of air and best they are not ugly like ceiling fans.


Post# 888818 , Reply# 9   7/10/2016 at 00:24 (2,845 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI)        
One of those floor-mounted Canister fans!

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Wonder if it will cool off a room like this one:

 

I really love that light fixture that I got at an antique store many years ago, that used to hang over my mother's kitchen sink, but I  moved it here...  

 

This room is between two other rooms so it gets very stuffy & it doesn't help that stuff like my records are in here...  I don't have another room to put that light in, if I intend to keep it ceiling-mounted, and a ceiling fan would be expensive and hard to install...

 

Especially if I want to change the light switch if I want a ceiling fan with a light on it, or I was entertaining hanging up a wall-mounted lamp that I have, which attaches to a shelf bracket-frame (it came with a real small one that got lost) and it needs to be re-wired with a new cord as well... Then I could settle for a plain fan without a light, then...

 

Really want to keep the room the way it is, but I want a real quiet fan that will do a good job to circulate the air in there...

 

 

-- Dave


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