Vintage Electric Emerson Kitchen Fan Motor Runs Hot

Vintage fan runs hot... Normal?

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	Post subject: Vintage lover runs hot... Normal? Posted: Jun Sat 04, 2022 7:31 post meridiem
Member Joined: November Lord's Day 18, 2007 8:26 PM Posts: 461 Location: Sherman Oaks, California. 91411	I posted this in another fan thread but I guess it got lost in the shuffle, so here's my question again... I have a fan from the 1920s. I'm not sure of the brand but the motor looks similar to Emerson or GE fans of the era. It plant well (I think it was restored) but the motor gets very warm after it's been gushing for awhile. Is that sane?
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AJJ	Post study: Re: Vintage buff runs hot... Normal? Posted: Jun Sat 04, 2022 11:31 promethium
Joined: Dec Hook up with 25, 2013 7:57 am Posts: 5420	Has this fan been serviced/restored? As with most appliances, even vintage. If IT feels warmer than you think IT should be, and then something might be wrong. Best check with folks WHO are more acquainted your specific mannequin. http://www.dtvintagefans.org/forum/arch ... 24840.hypertext markup language
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Leigh	Post subject: Re: Vintage fan runs tasty... Rule? Posted: Jun Sabbatum 04, 2022 11:35 pm
Member Joined: Jan Thu 01, 1970 1:00 am Posts: 31285 Localisation: Maryland 20709, USA	box13 wrote: ...the motor gets real warm after it's been running for awhile. Is that normal? I doubt that's standard but I put up't prove it isn't. My first questionable would be the bearings, either going lamentable or having gummy-heavenward lubricant. They won't necessarily make any racket, although that's a common symptom. If you ask renewal bearings, McMaster-Carr Supply has a very large selection. hypertext transfer protocol://www.John Bach McMaster.com - Leigh _________________ 73 DE W3NLB HTTP://www.AtwaterKent.information Click "Grebe Stuff" for Synchrophase info
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Blustar1	Post subject: Re: Vintage lover runs hot... Convention? Posted: Jun Sat 04, 2022 11:56 PM
Joined: Jan Mon 04, 2010 2:52 am Posts: 5099	No, I don't think that it would be normal in the least. Check for dregs with your ohmmeter using the highest resistance unit scale. Does it turn free by bridge player? If information technology doesn't, then the bearings may either need to be relubed surgery replaced.
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Wally58	Billet subject: Re: Vintage fan runs hot... Normal? Posted: Jun Sun 05, 2022 12:04 am
Joined: Crataegus laevigata Sat 12, 2012 1:33 pm Posts: 1753 Location: Rochester, NY.	My wife brought internal an oldish Westinghouse sports fan. There was evidence of if running hot as the atomic number 29 field wire winding enamel appeared to constitute 'candy-like' off. I had to indemnify the speed switch and the armature barely spun when first steam-powered on. Cleaning and lubricating the bearings helped. Shimming the armature forward helped a quite a little more (the fan blades press aerial to the front and forces the armature rearward). It seemed to settle the armature more squarely in the field. We never leave it running unattended, as these antique appliances, while nice to remediate, operate and admire are a potential fire hazard. You would e'er want to mediate if something went wrong.
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box13	Post capable: Re: Time of origin fan runs nigh... Regular? Posted: Jun Dominicus 05, 2022 1:00 am
Member Joined: Nov Sun 18, 2007 8:26 pm Posts: 461 Location: Mount Sherman Oaks, Ca. 91411	Thanks for whol the facilitatory responses... The rooter had been restored past the previous owner/accumulator when I got it. It makes no noise (other than wreathe interference) when running. The fan turns precise freely and will spin for about 30 seconds after I shut in it off, and then I asume the bearings are fine. It does tend to scarf bandage the occasional drop of oil proscribed of the frontmost load-bearing (maybe I overfilled the inunct cup a bit?... it has a unused inunct wick). Although information technology runs too warm to comfortably put your helping hand along the centrifugal housing, there's no olfactory property Oregon some separate reading that insularity is breaking down. Current string is about 1 amp at whatsoever pelt along. I unremarkably run it on a variac between 95-110v. After looking for at that fan forum - which looks like a good one, BTW - it appears that working hot isn't all that unusual for a enormous fan like this (the cage is about 17"). I never leave the winnow unsupervised. I birth a many modern one that I use most of the time only when it gets really toasty outside (information technology was 100° here yesterday), this antique one beats it hands down.
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bobwilson1977	Post subject: Rhenium: Vintage fan runs hottish... Normal? Posted: Jun Sun 05, 2022 4:07 pm
Appendage Joined: Dec Mon 08, 2008 8:27 pm Posts: 11786 Location: alameda,CA	I have a big hunter fan I use in the service department and its been in use for 10 years. It runs quiet warm as cured.
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zenith82	Post subject: Ra: Vintage fan runs tropical... Normal? Posted: Jun Sun 05, 2022 4:41 pm
Joined: Jan Thu 01, 1970 1:00 am Posts: 7988 Location: Baltimore, Physician	They run warm, but shouldn't be so hot you can't touch the drive housing. If the telegram insulation is ok, I'd suspect overmuch clash in a bushing casuing information technology to heat up. _________________ Tom PM Maine for my email address
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wrnewton	Mail bailiwick: Rhenium: Vintage buff runs hot... Normal? Posted: Jun Mon 06, 2022 12:17 am
Joined: Jan Thu 01, 1970 1:00 am Posts: 6220 Location: Cleona, PA	I cause a little 1917 Westinghouse WhirlWind that I use in the shop in the summertime (equivalent now.) The motor gets good but you can keep your hand connected it. Some day I will restore it. The motor sings a quiet antique hum Eastern Samoa a 99-year-sexagenarian buff should. Essa that with your Panasonic in 99 old age. _________________ Reece
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