Converting A Box Fan To Ceiling Fan

[@MarkChristopherpens]

Lucky break finding another damaged fan just laying there on your bench!😁

[@noeldc]

What are the chances?

[@NickFerry]

Luck? Where we are going, we don’t need luck

[@garyfindley3933]

That is some precision disassembly.

[@L3thalBones]

Okay for "entertainment purposes" if someone was looking to do something like this and did want to extend that potentiometer away from the fan motor, is there a specific type of wire to use? Like a specific gauge?

[@RobinDobbie]

I've read the bearings on those don't like to be perpendicular to their intended orientation, but I guess we'll see how long those last!

[@NickFerry]

What kind of bearing is in these?

[@RobinDobbie]

@@NickFerry All the ones I've taken apart use sleeve bearings which don't like it when the shaft isn't horizontal. They do work for sometime that way, I'll sometimes do it to dry out some shoes or something. But actual ceiling fans are cheap/free around here. On my street, people throw away perfectly good ones because they want a modern appearance.

[@jasonlawver9767]

Never fail to crack me up and learn me somethin' at the same time

[@71lemans]

This is perfect. I have a 20x20 garage I just put a wall mount natural gas heater in and I have 10 ft ceilings. Been wanting a small fan to help push some heat back down . Totally doing this. Great video

[@NickFerry]

Let me know how it works out for ya - I’m loving having added these

[@davebauerart]

It works. Nice design on the mounting brackets

[@shaunbarrickman6339]

Always good for a laugh! But great idea

[@NickFerry]

Thanks man

[@Michael-Makes-Stuff]

This is such a BOSS project! I am in awe… So cool! 😍

[@NickFerry]

thanks - sharing is caring ;)

[@jeliarra]

"Your great great grandfather invented lightening." Why did that make me laugh out loud? Taking a swag, it made me feel less old?

[@NickFerry]

If I had to guess, I’d say it was my pure, unadulterated sarcastic satire sprinkled with deadpan that really brought home the lol’s

[@jeliarra]

@@NickFerry Ok Dear Sir, will have none of that! Your going to ruin my agelast reputation! 😋😜

[@NickFerry]

@@jeliarra 😂

[@avagates2039]

Great installation for summer. To use this setup in winter would require the fan to blow in a clockwise position.

[@NickFerry]

Yes and no - yes, that’s ideal in traditional circulation patterns - no in this case, because I mounted them inline with the heater to force the hot air down to my bench & TS

[@genghisbunny]

Nice job. I'll definitely think about this for some old fans in future.

[@coryfenimore7275]

Thank you so much. I had it hanging from chain and the box all around. Now my daughter's room is way more cooler. Thanks for the how to. Rock on

[@NickFerry]

🤘🏼I will - ✌🏼

[@henryclayv2617]

Nice. Next up. How to turn a ceiling fan into a box fan...

[@NickFerry]

I like it

[@JustinBania]

The wind blown glamour shots at the end... Perfection lol.

[@NickFerry]

Haha I aim to please

[@Stanley.77]

Nice! I've thought of doing this, and even tried it out to an extent, but not to the extent and precision that you did; I just made a half-assed test model, but nothing worthy of mounting, like yours! Very, very cool! I still have a box fan from the late 80s, when I was in Jr. high school, from when they still had stronger motors and fuller blades! I reckon I may use the method that you have demonstrated, as it looks like it would work very well, even with my childhood box fan, which probably actually has a bit of "kick"/torque to it! I think the idea of putting the nail into the mounting block, like you had demonstrated, is a great idea!

[@NickFerry]

I’m pretty sure I know exactly what fans you’re talking about from the 80s they were just like a heavy box of metal and yeah I think Macgomery ward made a bunch of them I think maybe even Kenmore - those were some beasts

[@Stanley.77]

@@NickFerry They were the old beige Lakewood box fans, though I think K-Mart sold a blue model. The box fans of the early-mid 1980s didn't even require "feet" as they were big and wide...however, around late 1988/early 1989, they first introduced the (slightly) thinner box with the "attach enclosed feet to bottom of fan" sticker on top, to better accommodate windows, and to save money, no doubt, however I have one of the rare "in-between" models that have the original huge blades on the early slimmer box; within a year or less, all lakewood fans began having (somewhat) crescent-shaped blades. These were sold in the very late 1980s and early 1990s...probably into the mid 1990s. They don't make 'em like they used to! I did, in fact have a mid-80s full-sized box fan -no "feet" required, that I bought at a flea market in the 2000s. Sadly, when I had it in the window, my storm window slid down, blocking the exhaust airflow, and burning out the motor! If I were not moving to another state, I would have kept it, as the front and back grills were in perfect condition, which was *RARE* for the brittle plastic they used in the old grills! This was my one and only complaint about 80s box fans. I knew so many people who had replaced the plastic grills with window screens, as they broke so easily! I do remember my neighbor having a late-1970s/early 1980s Montgomery Ward box Fan with the sharp corners and fancy (but brittle and broken) plastic grill! Haha.

[@greglawrence742]

Loved it! Loved the comment about Great Grandpa inventing lighting!

[@DesignCraftWorkshop]

Haha you're crazy. Really cool job

[@TheChap1012]

Awesome vid Dude. You are very entertaining to say the least 🤣. Nice trick on the ceiling fan. I have two old box fans and got your channel on my YT search. Love your technique 👌.

[@NickFerry]

Awesome, thanks - have a look around & let me know if you have any questions - juice & coffee are in back

[@ivanwalker3391]

Cool as ...... I'm a big fan! Keep 'er lit Bro!

[@NickFerry]

Haha thanks Ivan

[@F.o.s.t.e.r.]

5 Minute Crafts would be jealous.

[@NickFerry]

Best comment for multiple reasons!!

[@robharrod]

Hijinks and shenanigans of the highest order!! Very little digression... Just what I needed!

[@NickFerry]

I love you buddy 👊

[@garyfindley3933]

That is some precision disasseembly

[@FknNefFy]

PVC pipe would be a better dowel and you can run the wire thru it

[@NickFerry]

yes! - i have a fair bit of pvc laying around too - I need you in the shop during beerstorming ideas

[@SawdustmakerLori]

Ingenious.......bet it will help a lot!

[@NickFerry]

It really is - thank Lori

[@mdbohica]

I am so happy to see that your mental health has faired as well as the rest of us during this time... :D

[@NickFerry]

I’m as even keel as even keel can even keel

[@the_real_drwhoroblox1935]

I'm gonna do this with an air king box fan because it has the 3 prong cord. This might allow me to anchor it to an electric ceiling box without the hassle.

[@NickFerry]

Great idea ✌🏼

[@the_real_drwhoroblox1935]

@@NickFerry yea. By the way to clarify though, what I meant by anchoring it is that I might design a harness to fix the fan to the ceiling fan mounting bracket. Also I would splice the cord and connect each wire to their respective wires in the ceiling box.

[@JimE6243]

You're back to being a regular? Love the damage fan bit. JimE

[@NickFerry]

If I have something to anyway

[@MAJTeam-kk3dt]

That is actually creative but can you do the blades longer?

[@NickFerry]

Yes

[@virtualfather]

Great production

[@iceoffire20]

no lie I have been wanting to do this for years I need to make one asap... How did you connect the remote?

[@NickFerry]

Plugged into a switched outlet

[@65Kathleen1]

How did you make it remote?

[@lVl1GGL3]

Perfect ending... 😂

[@FknNefFy]

Wife been trying to figure out how to mount my standing fan …. Meanwhile I have two box fans🤦🏼‍♀️thanks

[@NickFerry]

my pleasure - thanks for the pvc idea

[@Yinz_Kno_Johnny]

I seen you left a comment on jelly rolls new music! So I had to click on your video when you put that fan up on your ceiling I was having all the feels on that part!

[@NickFerry]

Hahahaha - too funny

[@frankkelly2245]

This is genius

[@dboysix26]

So in review, it’s smash smash, bend bend, pop pull…then saw saw??

[@NickFerry]

Or was it the other way round?

[@TheShavingWoodWorkshop]

Just blowing us away with another cool idea :-)

[@JunesMoon777]

OMG, awesome video. Now I know how photographers get that wind effect for their photo shoots😂😂😂😂👍👍👍

[@NickFerry]

And sell all those detangling combs 😂

[@SamZarifYT]

I was surprised by the startup sound!

[@NickFerry]

Weren’t we all?

[@davidmeyer9204]

Thanks Nick!

[@NiccoHel]

I'm not saying you did anything wrong here, but...couldn't you have just mounted the whole box fan up there? Couple of straps over the pipe or something? I say this only because I had a regular household ceiling fan/light in my garage, but I kept knocking things into it, and an enclosure may have prevented a lot of that.

[@NickFerry]

Not being able to get hit in the bean whilst traversing my step ladder (I never knew my real ladder) would be a lot less fun - I needed to remove the enclosure on the first fan & figured a matching aesthetic coupled with less dust collecting ability was in order - I debated leaving the second enclosure and adding a furnace filter which would make a good option as well

[@WildmanTech]

Lookin good!

[@NickFerry]

Thanks Marsh

[@jenng5925]

I could use one of those on my back porch to keep the birds from going to the bathroom on my porch.

[@colinm_pe]

Sooo. Why not just mount the entire box? Ducted fans are more efficient. Although there is that grill on either side..

[@NickFerry]

The weight of the entire box would tip my neighborhood over

[@munkytaint666]

You're a GD wizard, Ferry! -Hagrid

[@jesustoby48]

Hey man! I can't find the video that shows how to make the mount pieces

[@NickFerry]

I believe that - makes complete sense to me

[@Porsche964Guy]

Hey, my great grandfather invented lightning thanks for the shout out 😉

[@NickFerry]

I KNEW IT!!!

[@MickGalt]

channeling your inner Matthias Wandel

[@NickFerry]

No

[@sgsax]

Funny, all of my box fans are broken in some way. 😁 Neat idea! Thanks for sharing!

[@herminioamuniz]

Great video!

[@NickFerry]

Thanks

[@ShepherdsChapelonYT]

Why not just leave the fan in one piece in Mount the whole box to ceiling?

[@NickFerry]

The beginning of the video is where the answer to your question resides

[@AxelTheFanMan5733]

Get a blue box fan and make it into a ceiling fan

[@NickFerry]

Share?

[@AxelTheFanMan5733]

No you should make one

[@NickFerry]

Guess I’m not familiar with blue box fan

[@AxelTheFanMan5733]

I mean the color blue

[@AxelTheFanMan5733]

Lasko B20308 Box Fan

[@griffmade]

and here I am just sitting the fan on the ceiling joists like a dweeb

[@NickFerry]

Hahaha

[@frediefarmer]

Cool

[@michaelsmackdown5861]

That was brilliant bro

[@bagusuthama4873]

This is what happens I he has his @Hpad mode on 0:29

[@NickFerry]

no idea what you're saying but i do have a safety shirt on so...

[@PabloPaster]

This project blows…

[@Kmar2025]

Where in the name of Odin is the rest of you?? Have not been watching that much KZbin lately, but you have slimed down! Half of you are gone!

[@Shylade]

I did that before

[@NickFerry]

Your award and trophy is at the end of the aisle to the left

[@birdbones31]

5:20 their called downrods!

[@NickFerry]

hahahaha - kzbin.info/www/bejne/h2enoaiIh8lpm9k -hahahaha

[@yrralyou]

Very bad idea. Those fan blades turning that fast can cause serious harm.

[@NickFerry]

Outlaw ceiling fans everywhere!

[@yrralyou]

@@NickFerry Be funny if you want, but ceiling fans turn slow for a reason. That is a terrible idea.

[@NickFerry]

I can literally stick my hand in it on high and it does nothing - but hey what would that matter

[@yrralyou]

@@NickFerry Right

[@Cubic_mandelbar]

Ceiling Fan in Ohio 😂

[@NickFerry]

Long time listener, First time caller 😂✌🏼

[@ricos1497]

Seems a little wasteful. Do you think that leftover cage would securely house a small child, say 7 or 8 years old? I don't mind squashing them down a little if necessary.

[@NickFerry]

A little squishing may be necessary - but a think with a little practice….

[@MarkChristopherpens]

First! ;)

[@NickFerry]

And shit, from my brother from another - 👊

[@judmcfeters9054]

No… just say No… 🤦‍♂️

[@NickFerry]

You know you want to… I won’t say anything if you don’t

[@alfredneumann4692]

You will get a neckache.

[@truth-ox3wz]

Wow, that is one cheap looking fan