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Feast your eyes on the ‘An Ceiling Fan’ of the 2000’s!
This is actually my very first CMC ceiling fan, but it also isn't. For now, let's enjoy the fruits of my first full restoration of a CMC ceiling fan, and the story of how it got to this state!
September 4th 2020, was the exact date I got my very first ceiling fan. It was a 48" CMC ceiling fan with the blades cut a bit short by the previous owner. I still fully remember my disappointment when it didn't spin when I plug it in, it only moved just a bit & jammed up. Being unfamiliar with how ceiling fans work at the time, I decided to open it up & check if I can fix the problem. Now I can see that the only thing needed doing was replace the bearings, but back then I wanted to fix it myself so badly that I started tinkering with the wiring & windings, that's when I accidently snapped a part of the windings. If that’d happened today, I would've soldered the snapped winding together, but because I knew nothing back then, I got mad at myself & cut more of the windings so that I "can't use it". The next day, I went out & bought a Yundai Fit ceiling fan to try & see if I can frankenstein that fan to make it work again. Well the rotor did indeed fit on this CMC's motor shell, but something happened during disassembly of that Yundai Fit fan that apparently also busted the windings. I was left with 2 dead ceiling fans & only less than a week to NCFD 2020. That's why I went to Krisbow just so I can have a ceiling fan to show in that particular NCFD.
Just days before NCFD, I happened to get my hands on an NIB CMC motor & decided that it should be the fan to showcase. So I drilled extra holes on my first CMC's blades to make it fit on the new motor, painted it to match the motor's color & called it a day. 2020 NCFD went smoothly in my video, but behind the scenes, I had a dumpster fire in the form of 2 dead ceiling fans I don't know how to fix. The week after it, I went to a friend of mine who works as an electric motor repairman to see if he can rewind the 2 motors, he said he couldn't which left me even more bummed out. Fast forward to March of 2021, when I finally found a guy willing to rewind my 2 dead ceiling fan motors. He didn't do a particularly good job, but it's acceptable enough. Since I no longer have a 48" bladeset for this motor, it sat for awhile without any progress. That's when a fellow collector offered me his National F-560A1 which I bought, and he sent along a bladeset from what appears to be an old GMC ceiling fan & spare canopies. I tried the GMC blades on this motor & it looks awesome, so I decided to continue the project.
Little to no progress happened up till around mid 2022 when I finally painted the motor white, it then sat again because I don't have a downrod & canopies for it. Then my shop got renovated & things spiraled out of control in my health & KZbin departement. When the dust finally settled down, I had TONS of fans waiting to be filmed & countless other projects waiting to be worked on + my college that I have to worry about. As of this writing, I have 36 videos waiting to be posted & around 15 more fans/projects waiting to be filmed which is kind of a great problem to have, but let's not get to that.
So yes, this is a bit of a hodge-podge if I'm honest, but it doesn't matter as it looks bonkers! Performance is also not half bad. For a weak 48" rated motor asked to drive some very floppy 56" blades with barely any pitch, you'd thing this fan moves less air than an ant's breath, but it's actually pretty powerful for what it is! I still don't recommend using it on faster speeds as the motor gets toasty, but even on speed 2 on National's EY149 control, it's already spreading a satisfactory amount of air! Oh and the canopies I'm using for this video came from a Sekai ceiling fan.
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