The house I grew up in had this fan. I remember every time it got turned on the whole house shook. It was loud but did a great job of moving air. During the summer it got used alot so I can never forget the sound of it running.😊
As a Stephen King fan I now imagine an oversized fan like this randomly surprise-appearing behind doors without protection grill, for example when you go to the toilet at night.... :D The concept is awesome, I never heard of a house fan so far. Computer builders really appreciate this house fan ventilation concept inside the tower, and in houses that´s even better because it forces the cool summer night air in without the cost of air conditioning.
These are not found in all parts of the country, it depends on the climate. Unless you have cool dry nights, these aren't very useful. We used to have that around here, but not so much the last few years.
oh man my parent's house has this. There's nothing that brings more summer nostalgia than this fan shaking the whole house, sucking in cool night air from all the open windows. Heaven.
The house I grew up in (built in 1969) had this exact same fan. I always thought it was really great, and on a spring/fall day there was no need to run the AC in Georgia. Things stayed plenty cool with it running. The only downside is that it would slam doors and ours only ran at one speed, which was full blast lol. So that was LOUD.
Ohhhh....I bought an older house about two years ago. And I noticed it had two switches in the hallway. One for the hall light and the other mysterious switch I didn’t know what it was at that time. I didn’t notice it when I was looking at the house before purchasing it. One day I was curious and turn on the mystery switch in the hallway. I almost shit my pants. I thought my roof was opening up. Lol. It’s just an attic fan. Guess I didn’t notice the strange square shaped thing in the hallway either...hahaha...wonder what other secrets my house has....🙂
I agree, too much central air units replacing these fans. My parents bought our house (which my mom still owns) in 1983, and the previous owners had installed this exact same fan. It is still running very well nearly 35 years later. My mom did install three wall unit air conditioners, but she does not use them very often. However she uses the fan a lot.
That's funny..I said holy shit when he turned this bad boy on.. Thought I was gonna get sucked threw my phone..lol..You could fly a small plane with that thing...lol
I had one of these in the house I grew up in (born in 82, our house was from the 30s), I used to love playing with this thing, feeding it strips of paper 😂
I moved into a different house recently and just figured out that it has one of these. We had someone doing drywall work and some painting upstairs. I came home from work that night and stood in the doorway wondering the 5 why’s about this otherworldly fan noise reverberating through the house. My jaw must’ve hit the floor when I wandered upstairs and saw the open shutters in the ceiling. Very cool. And funny that I had no idea, but the older gentleman doing the drywall knew enough to figure it out.
My house has one these, When i turned it on out of curiosity (without any windows open) It made a very loud humming sound, It was so incredibly strong that it opened one of the doors in the kitchen. Amazing
I was scared of these as a kid. I went over to a friend of my parents house and they had one upstairs. I wanted to play in one of the bedrooms which you had to walk under this fan to get there. I ended up getting my dad to come and shut it off. I was maybe 8 years old back them. Now I just say crank it up. Weird how when you're young you're scared of some things then you outgrow it.
My aunt had one of these, and I was afraid of it as a kid. Her hallway was kind of dark, so I couldn't see the fan up there, just blackness between the metal shutters, but it was loud, and I knew those big blades were spinning in the darkness. I attribute the fear to the fan scene in Willy Wonka. When we bought our first house, which was built in the mid '50s, it had one installed, which looked old enough to be original to the house. I never turned it on, mainly because I wasn't sure how safe it'd be to operate an electrical device that old, but maybe a little bit of it was the fear I had of these things as a little kid.
Resurrected the 1960’s Hunter whole house fan in my attic that was abandoned since 1997. The belt was completely perished and the motor needed a front bearing but the project was totally worth it. Took a standard A62 drive belt and the bearing was a common part, hardest part was pressing the old one out. Love the fan though, turns nice and slow to stay quiet but moves tons of air. Mine is either on or off though, no time control or variable speed.
These are great for cooling if you live in an area that cools off outside at night. The project you did was time and money well spent, that repaired until will be far more reliable and perform better than any unit you can buy today. All the ones of today are high speed and very noisy.
I have a very similar Sears fan, and it is a warm, muggy Spring day, and it isn't working just a sad click when I turn it on. Such a economical sway to cool my home.
The variable speed on this one is great, full speed is hardly ever needed with how powerful it is. These will keep going for many years to come, very good quality motors were used.
Omg I just bought a house in VA 2 months ago has this old Sears set up. But home inspection said it was disconnected and had been used in some time. Now I'm done unpacking I wanna get up there and get this old girl running..Keep the videos or advice coming...lol
If you can get it connected, make sure both shutters are free and able to open, put some oil into the fan bearings and the motor bearings every few months, keep a good belt of proper specification on there, and it will run just about forever.
So I don't know if anyone else experiences this, but I have a weird phobia of in-built fans. Like the ones above the stovetop. Looking at these kinds of fans unsettle me. I don't know why.
I'm a grown woman and I have an attic fan in my house. Every time I have used it I still feel scared for some reason. Just looking up at that big black void and seeing those big blades turning gives me the creeps. It's almost like a mouth opening up and it will suck you up and chop you up. I know that my fear is silly, but I can't help it..
There was one the basement of a 1932 house I bought years ago. The propeller went out on my Cesna so I put the fan on there and it's been flying the plane all this time. 😉
I have a sears whole house fan. Not sure which exact model, but it's similar to this. There's a one piece controller with both knobs side by side instead of 2 separate knobs. One of the knobs is cracked and won't turn the potentiometer any more, so I take it off and twist with plyers. I rarely use it any more since I don't want all the outside pollen in the house. If I could find a replacement knob, I would get it or if I could just replace the whole controller, I would. Problem is I would have to find something compatible that covered the existing hole.
We had a belt driven one in a vacant house on the farm when I was a kid. I vividly remember being nine years old and turning it on and a wasp nest dropped out of the thing
Judging from the size of the shutter and the length of the blades, I would say that it is a 30 inch fan. Belt drive whole house fans come in four standard sizes 24, 30, 36, and 42 inch. The 42 inch is a Really BIG fan and are only used for large homes. The other sizes are depending on house square feet and CFM needed to be moved.
I would guess 30 or 36.. The fan was installed when the house had no air conditioning; being the only source of cooling it was certainly not undersized..
As a child, my aunt and grandmother had these in their homes. I was terrified of them because they were loud and I thought I was going to get sucked up into the fan 😂
Dude, I could've very easily written this comment! My grandma's house thankfully didn't have one but my eldest Aunt sure did and I hated it! Strangely enough, I wasn't TOO bothered by the thing when it was ON. The problem was when it was OFF and they left the vent open , so you could see these big four blades staring back you at from this big dark void. Now that I think about it, the vent on hers was painted over so much, it had to be open and shut manually; the fan wasn't strong enough to pull it open at that point, so sometimes it'd be left open while the fan wasn't on and to my childish mind it was just....wrong LOL.
Hello I have the same one this year when I went up to attic to install into it’s square and turned it on when I got down to room I hear like a low rattle like if the fan belt is loose. Not sure but i believe it’s original to the home a 1950 one level home. Have you had such a noise?
We installed ours in 1982 or so and it has made life liveable. Ours is MUCH louder than this. It reminds me of a helicopter! LOL! We got it at Sears Surplus for about $200 back then. The only problem we've had was that the switch went out and had to be replaced. We did some remodeling not long after and something fell on the vents and they have been rattling more and now one of the louvers broke and is now hanging. Not good.
@@JordanU Yes! Fixing the louver that broke free I see that it does need replacing. I need to make sure it is the right fit though. Several louvers are not hooked in as much as they were - the holes in the louvers have split, letting them come loose from the rivets. It's either take it down and add washers to each hole and then screwing the back together or replace it. What a pain either way.
We have one in our house that I installed about 25 years ago. i love it. It saves a lot of run time on the central AC. One thing I learned right away, you MUST open some windows when you run it. Otherwise, it may suck fumes from the (gas) water heater running. Someone else in the household turned it on and did't check for some open windows. Would I install one again? Definitely!
In my house I first have to open windows in attic and then down in the main house then turn on the fan switch. I use to have a speed control but when I called electrician he said the fan switch burned out because the motor is to powerful for the switch. So he ended up putting a on off switch that can handle the load.
damn I didn't even know these existed. this would have scared the crap out of me when I was younger. I always had a weird phobia type things about fans, especially big ones. Not anymore though
I have to agree, I don't have a fan phobia but something about a vintage heavy metal blade twice as big as a large portable box fan staring down at you from the ceiling is kind of unsettling. Perhaps because sometimes things that look like that are enemies in some video games.
I see a lot of comments about how loud it was. Almost the only noise ours makes is the air rushing thru it. VERY little motor noise but ours is direct drive so no belts or pulleys. BTW- Ours has a variable speed control.
Are you sure you don't have that backwards? Our direct drive model has practically no motor noise at full speed & at slow speed NO motor noise. @@JordanU
We just moved and my house was built in 1948. The landlord says the original fan is in the attic but he cut the power to it. He said they are amazing devices and ours is massive. I'm hoping to see it one day.
My attic fan looks exactly like that one. I thought it was a Craftsman for some reason but Sears definitely. My dad installed it before 1977. I had an electrician replace the motor but it still needs a fan. He took the broken one and never came back so I don't have a width. The circumference around pulley to motor is 60" total, 8 think. If you know the size of the belt on yours it would save me so much time. I even have the same timer/power switch, but it's only one speed.
My grandmom has a fan like this in her house.. But im scared to go in her attic no one has been inside her attic in decades i thought the fan was in the whole attic, had blades that could chop off someone head off just peeping inside. Also because she naled the windows shut, After my pops died, When my pops was alive they would open all the windowns and let air flow through and cool the whole house. I was always afraid to even look at the attic cause in Louisiana she talked about vudoo, snakes and stuff so I never dared to go look.. But this bring a lot of clarity to everything she said she, crazy enough, but to be honest I dont even know if their is another acces pont to her attic.......? Its doesnt even look like this, It's just a sliver blade hallway cilling. I always wonderded what that was? now I know now... A small farm house in the middle of nowhere..... Way before my time 1990... The house is basically a time capscaule to me ... I get chiils just thinking about it...?
@@o0OBillO0o I've tried and tried,can't get the proper switch that will let the fan run at it's full potential. Tried contacting sears, emerson,nidec etc. and none can help. Very frustrating.
@@jimm2031 www.grainger.com/product/TORK-120VAC-Electromechanical-Wall-45EM03 or look at this www.grainger.com/product/DAYTON-2-Speed-Belt-Drive-Whole-House-1LXN8 and order a new timer from Grainger.
I'd like to put a predator or honda clone 212cc or even a 420cc on one of those big vintage whole-house fans. lol I wonder if it's potentially dangerous in that the fan blades might come apart from the high rpm? I would also probably make the belt really tight and add on a strong belt tensioner like from a car to prevent slippage. LOL, I have a bunch of crazy project ideas.
These blades were built very well, they'll withstand conditions above the intended use case, but you'll probably be pushing the boundaries with that much power.
alexthebro 265 We had a Whole house fan in our old house when I was a kid and yes I would throw paper into it or toilet paper tissue. I’m convinced that there still a pile of chopped up little pieces of paper in the attic to this day LOL
Not if you live in a very hot (as it gets over 90 F) and humid environment (The South East U.S. for example), still better than nothing though. They are nice once the humidity drops though.
@@JordanU did it in caps because it was in caps on the sticker...but was kinda debating wether to do it or not...so i did. not because i was angry or mad just fyi. I guess you already. knew that?
I have a Sears fan of same vintage and it recently quit running and have been researching the Googles to find parts for it. During troubleshooting I found that while there was power downstream of the switch, there was no power at the hookup connection on the fan motor. Went into the attic to trace the wiring and found a device such as shown in your video on a rafter above the fan wired between the fan switch and the motor. There was power up to this thing, but dead on the fan motor side. Device had an on/off switch on it that had failed. Put a jumper across it and the fan came on. This thing seems to be intended to enable automatic starting of the fan when the attic space reaches a certain temperature and also has a thermal trip switch in it to shut the fan down in event of fire. The device is a Sears part no longer available. I can use the fan without the thing, but will be looking for some sort of alternate device to wire in for fire safety.
You may be able to adapt a fan and limit switch that is intended for a warm-air furnace, if this type of switch has the range of temperature settings that you would need. These are typically used to start the furnace blower after the burner has warmed up the heat exchanger, and stop the blower some time after the burner is cut off by the room thermostat. This function could be used to turn the fan on and off for normal operation. The other function of the fan and limit switch is to cut off the burner if the interior of the furnace gets too hot, as it would in the case of a blower failure. This could be wired in series with the other portion of the switch to cut off the attic fan in case of fire.@@ralphjones6165
These fan cause mom to be angry because... Son: I wanna my phone(angry in heart) Mom: No unless you do the chores Son: ok(angry in heart) Son: (Tries to close the door slowly) The fan: MY TIME TO SHINE The door: oh no fan dont make me slam... Son: Omg Mom:DID U JUST SLAM THE DOOR FINE YOU ARE GROUNDED
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The house I grew up in had this fan. I remember every time it got turned on the whole house shook. It was loud but did a great job of moving air. During the summer it got used alot so I can never forget the sound of it running.😊
These are quite strong fans, and rather quiet considering the amount of air being moved.
As a Stephen King fan I now imagine an oversized fan like this randomly surprise-appearing behind doors without protection grill, for example when you go to the toilet at night.... :D
The concept is awesome, I never heard of a house fan so far.
Computer builders really appreciate this house fan ventilation concept inside the tower, and in houses that´s even better because it forces the cool summer night air in without the cost of air conditioning.
These are not found in all parts of the country, it depends on the climate. Unless you have cool dry nights, these aren't very useful. We used to have that around here, but not so much the last few years.
oh man my parent's house has this. There's nothing that brings more summer nostalgia than this fan shaking the whole house, sucking in cool night air from all the open windows. Heaven.
The breeze effect. Yeah, it's heaven.
The house I grew up in (built in 1969) had this exact same fan. I always thought it was really great, and on a spring/fall day there was no need to run the AC in Georgia. Things stayed plenty cool with it running. The only downside is that it would slam doors and ours only ran at one speed, which was full blast lol. So that was LOUD.
Thanks for letting me know.
Ohhhh....I bought an older house about two years ago. And I noticed it had two switches in the hallway. One for the hall light and the other mysterious switch I didn’t know what it was at that time. I didn’t notice it when I was looking at the house before purchasing it. One day I was curious and turn on the mystery switch in the hallway. I almost shit my pants. I thought my roof was opening up. Lol. It’s just an attic fan. Guess I didn’t notice the strange square shaped thing in the hallway either...hahaha...wonder what other secrets my house has....🙂
A lot of older houses had these.. They worked great, it's a shame they're all being replaced by central air conditioning..
I agree, too much central air units replacing these fans. My parents bought our house (which my mom still owns) in 1983, and the previous owners had installed this exact same fan. It is still running very well nearly 35 years later. My mom did install three wall unit air conditioners, but she does not use them very often. However she uses the fan a lot.
That's funny..I said holy shit when he turned this bad boy on.. Thought I was gonna get sucked threw my phone..lol..You could fly a small plane with that thing...lol
Best thing for coolhouses in the 50 and 60s makes the cracked windows feel like vents lol
they could probably be used as exhaust fans as well to get rid bad air
I had one of these in the house I grew up in (born in 82, our house was from the 30s), I used to love playing with this thing, feeding it strips of paper 😂
I'm pretty sure some toilet paper has passed through this one over the years.
Haha yeah, I'd blow bubbles underneath it and watch them get pulled into the draft of the fan. Fun times
Still have mine. Going on 50 years. Works awesome.
Excellent equipment.
I moved into a different house recently and just figured out that it has one of these. We had someone doing drywall work and some painting upstairs. I came home from work that night and stood in the doorway wondering the 5 why’s about this otherworldly fan noise reverberating through the house. My jaw must’ve hit the floor when I wandered upstairs and saw the open shutters in the ceiling. Very cool. And funny that I had no idea, but the older gentleman doing the drywall knew enough to figure it out.
I'd be thrilled at such a discovery myself. These are great, a very effective replacement for the air conditioners most days.
I enjoyed it. Well made fan. That thing is a workhorse. I love the benefits of it. As it draws air inside the house
This is an excellent piece of equipment.
My house has one these, When i turned it on out of curiosity (without any windows open) It made a very loud humming sound, It was so incredibly strong that it opened one of the doors in the kitchen. Amazing
These have quite a bit of power to them.
Thats so cool that it is a variable speed, most are just high and low...
I was scared of these as a kid. I went over to a friend of my parents house and they had one upstairs. I wanted to play in one of the bedrooms which you had to walk under this fan to get there. I ended up getting my dad to come and shut it off. I was maybe 8 years old back them.
Now I just say crank it up. Weird how when you're young you're scared of some things then you outgrow it.
Perspectives change drastically as you age..
Yes! there is two of these at my work and on windy days it opens the flaps and it freaks me out still lol
My aunt had one of these, and I was afraid of it as a kid. Her hallway was kind of dark, so I couldn't see the fan up there, just blackness between the metal shutters, but it was loud, and I knew those big blades were spinning in the darkness.
I attribute the fear to the fan scene in Willy Wonka.
When we bought our first house, which was built in the mid '50s, it had one installed, which looked old enough to be original to the house. I never turned it on, mainly because I wasn't sure how safe it'd be to operate an electrical device that old, but maybe a little bit of it was the fear I had of these things as a little kid.
I Was Never Afraid, I love these types of fans
Dude vents scare me still as an adult xD
Resurrected the 1960’s Hunter whole house fan in my attic that was abandoned since 1997. The belt was completely perished and the motor needed a front bearing but the project was totally worth it. Took a standard A62 drive belt and the bearing was a common part, hardest part was pressing the old one out.
Love the fan though, turns nice and slow to stay quiet but moves tons of air. Mine is either on or off though, no time control or variable speed.
These are great for cooling if you live in an area that cools off outside at night. The project you did was time and money well spent, that repaired until will be far more reliable and perform better than any unit you can buy today. All the ones of today are high speed and very noisy.
I have a very similar Sears fan, and it is a warm, muggy Spring day, and it isn't working just a sad click when I turn it on. Such a economical sway to cool my home.
Do you have a good belt on it? Never had any trouble with this one.
We have that exact same fan. It's been running well for 35 plus years.
These were very well made fans..
Great vintage fan made by Sears and Roebuck
Yup
I need to clean mine!
I wish mine had a speed control with more than two settings. It really runs smooth for its age as well.
The variable speed on this one is great, full speed is hardly ever needed with how powerful it is. These will keep going for many years to come, very good quality motors were used.
1:18 those blades are basically staring in your face. It would be scary to look at those blades in the dark, unless the fan is on.
Darren78 right
Yes! I hate these things how the flaps open and nothing but blackness behind them. Lol
Omg I just bought a house in VA 2 months ago has this old Sears set up. But home inspection said it was disconnected and had been used in some time. Now I'm done unpacking I wanna get up there and get this old girl running..Keep the videos or advice coming...lol
If you can get it connected, make sure both shutters are free and able to open, put some oil into the fan bearings and the motor bearings every few months, keep a good belt of proper specification on there, and it will run just about forever.
Thank you
So I don't know if anyone else experiences this, but I have a weird phobia of in-built fans. Like the ones above the stovetop. Looking at these kinds of fans unsettle me. I don't know why.
I'm a grown woman and I have an attic fan in my house. Every time I have used it I still feel scared for some reason. Just looking up at that big black void and seeing those big blades turning gives me the creeps. It's almost like a mouth opening up and it will suck you up and chop you up. I know that my fear is silly, but I can't help it..
Hey, ima 21 yr old young man and terrified of bees and yellow jackets. We all have fears
I bet you're scared of pool drain suction too and loud scary fan noises
Syntax plays Lindsay graham baker
That doesnt make sense..
had exact model at grandparents house, same switches and everything
There was one the basement of a 1932 house I bought years ago. The propeller went out on my Cesna so I put the fan on there and it's been flying the plane all this time. 😉
These were very good blades.
I have a sears whole house fan. Not sure which exact model, but it's similar to this. There's a one piece controller with both knobs side by side instead of 2 separate knobs. One of the knobs is cracked and won't turn the potentiometer any more, so I take it off and twist with plyers. I rarely use it any more since I don't want all the outside pollen in the house. If I could find a replacement knob, I would get it or if I could just replace the whole controller, I would. Problem is I would have to find something compatible that covered the existing hole.
Wow, that actually spins down really fast! It’s almost instantaneous once you turn the knob to OFF!
That's typical with belt-drive equipment.
It didn't take long to reach full speed. We had a whole house fan in our house as a kid. What a beast.
The motors in these have a lot of power.
We had a belt driven one in a vacant house on the farm when I was a kid. I vividly remember being nine years old and turning it on and a wasp nest dropped out of the thing
Jack Casey Was the wasp nest Alive?
That could have been scary.
I would have run though the wall
Yes the nest was alive.... good thing the Jeep can make a fast getaway lol
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The belt drive is interesting, especially that motor. I can't wait to see it. Can you please show me the belt drive in the attic when it is clean?
It's not my attic to clean, so unfortunately I don't know when/if I'll be able to get up there and capture a better video..
That thing has some good pickup I mean crank it up and its at full speed. What's the specs on the motor?
I lived in an apartment temporarily when i was really young. In the laundry mat there was one of these things. And it always gave me the creeps
Thanks for letting me know.
Judging from the size of the shutter and the length of the blades, I would say that it is a 30 inch fan. Belt drive whole house fans come in four standard sizes 24, 30, 36, and 42 inch. The 42 inch is a Really BIG fan and are only used for large homes. The other sizes are depending on house square feet and CFM needed to be moved.
I would guess 30 or 36.. The fan was installed when the house had no air conditioning; being the only source of cooling it was certainly not undersized..
As a child, my aunt and grandmother had these in their homes. I was terrified of them because they were loud and I thought I was going to get sucked up into the fan 😂
Thanks for letting me know.
relatable
as a tall person I can confirm this happens to me all the time
Dude, I could've very easily written this comment! My grandma's house thankfully didn't have one but my eldest Aunt sure did and I hated it! Strangely enough, I wasn't TOO bothered by the thing when it was ON. The problem was when it was OFF and they left the vent open , so you could see these big four blades staring back you at from this big dark void. Now that I think about it, the vent on hers was painted over so much, it had to be open and shut manually; the fan wasn't strong enough to pull it open at that point, so sometimes it'd be left open while the fan wasn't on and to my childish mind it was just....wrong LOL.
I wonder what it looks like from the attic very vintage unique fan
I have some photographs of it from the top somewhere, I think they're old enough to be on paper though..
That fan is cool
Thanks..
Hello I have the same one this year when I went up to attic to install into it’s square and turned it on when I got down to room I hear like a low rattle like if the fan belt is loose.
Not sure but i believe it’s original to the home a 1950 one level home.
Have you had such a noise?
we had an fan like this quiet an kept the whole house cool
These were great fans.
We installed ours in 1982 or so and it has made life liveable. Ours is MUCH louder than this. It reminds me of a helicopter! LOL! We got it at Sears Surplus for about $200 back then. The only problem we've had was that the switch went out and had to be replaced. We did some remodeling not long after and something fell on the vents and they have been rattling more and now one of the louvers broke and is now hanging. Not good.
The shutter can be replaced, it is not part of the fan.
@@JordanU Yes! Fixing the louver that broke free I see that it does need replacing. I need to make sure it is the right fit though. Several louvers are not hooked in as much as they were - the holes in the louvers have split, letting them come loose from the rivets. It's either take it down and add washers to each hole and then screwing the back together or replace it. What a pain either way.
I remember growing up with a Reed fan.
Thanks for letting me know.
We have one in our house that I installed about 25 years ago. i love it. It saves a lot of run time on the central AC. One thing I learned right away, you MUST open some windows when you run it. Otherwise, it may suck fumes from the (gas) water heater running. Someone else in the household turned it on and did't check for some open windows. Would I install one again? Definitely!
These are great for cool summer nights.
I just scored an emerson from 1951 looks similar to this and it is as quiet as a church mouse
Nice!
I have a whole house fan with a regular light switch and 2 speed control but they are mounted on the same box and is right under the fan
Thanks for letting me know.
In my house I first have to open windows in attic and then down in the main house then turn on the fan switch. I use to have a speed control but when I called electrician he said the fan switch burned out because the motor is to powerful for the switch.
So he ended up putting a on off switch that can handle the load.
Thanks for letting me know.
I wish our apartment had a Whole house fan With 5 speed controls
Very cool fan Jordan my👍
Thanks..
1:25 Caution automatically operated device turn switch off before working on or near this fan.
Thanks
There’s gotta be a story as to why they included that label.
It's lawsuit prevention, you'll find common sense warnings like that on almost anything now..
That is true, with how stupid some people are. It says a lot if someone doesn't know your not suppose to work on a fan with the blades spinning.
damn I didn't even know these existed. this would have scared the crap out of me when I was younger. I always had a weird phobia type things about fans, especially big ones. Not anymore though
A number of people have reported that. I believe this is only a 36" model, there are larger ones out there.
I have to agree, I don't have a fan phobia but something about a vintage heavy metal blade twice as big as a large portable box fan staring down at you from the ceiling is kind of unsettling. Perhaps because sometimes things that look like that are enemies in some video games.
I see a lot of comments about how loud it was. Almost the only noise ours makes is the air rushing thru it. VERY little motor noise but ours is direct drive so no belts or pulleys. BTW- Ours has a variable speed control.
This one is very quiet as well, nothing but air noise. It is belt drive, which is usually much quieter than direct drive.
Are you sure you don't have that backwards? Our direct drive model has practically no motor noise at full speed & at slow speed NO motor noise. @@JordanU
Direct drive fans can be quiet, but typically a belt drive is the quietest design as no motor noise is transferred to the blade.
crazy slow low speed! something else.
They sure don't make fans like this anymore..
Does running on the lowest speed for long periods of time provide sufficient cooling for the motor?@@JordanU
@@johncantwell8216 As long as enough windows are open for good air flow it should be fine.
Awesome!!!....Love Me some Fans
Nice Fan
I have one too but it squeals on high...does these type of whole house fans need to be oiled?
Yes, these need to be oiled regularly.. There are oil ports on the fan's shaft as well as on either side of the motor..
We just moved and my house was built in 1948. The landlord says the original fan is in the attic but he cut the power to it. He said they are amazing devices and ours is massive. I'm hoping to see it one day.
Why was it disconnected? One could save a lot of money running these in the evening/night rather than the air-conditioners.
@JordanU I have no idea. He said it's belt driven and has issues and needs a mechanic. It is a fire hazard
My attic fan looks exactly like that one. I thought it was a Craftsman for some reason but Sears definitely. My dad installed it before 1977. I had an electrician replace the motor but it still needs a fan. He took the broken one and never came back so I don't have a width. The circumference around pulley to motor is 60" total, 8 think. If you know the size of the belt on yours it would save me so much time. I even have the same timer/power switch, but it's only one speed.
* it doesn't need "fan", it needs a new belt.
i think that this may've been what was used on the set of imagination movers or so...along with apparently another 4 blade skinnier model too, or so
That doesn't make sense.
How did you get that timer? It didn't show sears on it.
I don't know where the timer came from, probably from Sears also..
My grandmom has a fan like this in her house.. But im scared to go in her attic no one has been inside her attic in decades i thought the fan was in the whole attic, had blades that could chop off someone head off just peeping inside. Also because she naled the windows shut, After my pops died, When my pops was alive they would open all the windowns and let air flow through and cool the whole house. I was always afraid to even look at the attic cause in Louisiana she talked about vudoo, snakes and stuff so I never dared to go look.. But this bring a lot of clarity to everything she said she, crazy enough, but to be honest I dont even know if their is another acces pont to her attic.......? Its doesnt even look like this, It's just a sliver blade hallway cilling. I always wonderded what that was? now I know now... A small farm house in the middle of nowhere..... Way before my time 1990... The house is basically a time capscaule to me ... I get chiils just thinking about it...?
My nana has a 1982 hunter one.
That's neat..
Where do you think I could get 1/one and where did you get it ???🤔🤔🤔also what size belt does it take I case I get 1/one I’ll know the size belt???🤔🤔🤔
1/one? I don't know what the size of the belt is, it hasn't been changed in many years.
Very vintage and cool. It's from 1977 :)
Thanks for the information..
my grandma has this one but hers has a different control and the blade is the old emerson green her's has a two speed rocker switch
she never uses It though but the belt is still mint and I turn it on every once in a while so it doesn't lock up
This one doesn't get used regularly anymore either, but it got them through many hot summers before they had an air conditioner..
my soul left my body when the shutter got open
Could you please supply the part number for the variable speed switch? Thank you.
I don't know what the part number is, I'm sure it's long been discontinued regardless.. It was purchased somewhere around 40 years ago..
Prob Sears Attic Fan 7xx.638000. Where xx is some combo of numbers. Try it in a google search.
@@o0OBillO0o I've tried and tried,can't get the proper switch that will let the fan run at it's full potential. Tried contacting sears, emerson,nidec etc. and none can help. Very frustrating.
@@jimm2031 www.grainger.com/product/TORK-120VAC-Electromechanical-Wall-45EM03 or look at this www.grainger.com/product/DAYTON-2-Speed-Belt-Drive-Whole-House-1LXN8 and order a new timer from Grainger.
@@jimm2031 also www.intermatic.com/ or www.zoro.com/tork-spring-wound-timer-range-0-to-12-hr-c412h/i/G0965139/
this is interesting. ive never know this exist
These were far more common before the popularity of central air conditioning.
Yeah
I subscribed
Thanks..
ohh GOD! how fast did those louvres open up ?-i mean really? 2:00-2:03
My uncle had this at his old house and he sell it
OK
I'd like to put a predator or honda clone 212cc or even a 420cc on one of those big vintage whole-house fans. lol
I wonder if it's potentially dangerous in that the fan blades might come apart from the high rpm?
I would also probably make the belt really tight and add on a strong belt tensioner like from a car to prevent slippage.
LOL, I have a bunch of crazy project ideas.
These blades were built very well, they'll withstand conditions above the intended use case, but you'll probably be pushing the boundaries with that much power.
@@JordanU finally a fan that will actually cut off your finger and not an electric motor with zero torque.
Have you ever had the urge to want to throw stuff up in it while its running?!
No..
Toss a large eraser up into the blades and run for Cover 😀
alexthebro 265 We had a Whole house fan in our old house when I was a kid and yes I would throw paper into it or toilet paper tissue. I’m convinced that there still a pile of chopped up little pieces of paper in the attic to this day LOL
I was at a friends house many years ago and we shot dozen of nerf darts in their whole house fan
was just about to maybe ask the size...but you dont really know, but ok/its ok...or so
That doesn't make sense.
Better than HVAC! :)
I agree..
Not if you live in a very hot (as it gets over 90 F) and humid environment (The South East U.S. for example), still better than nothing though. They are nice once the humidity drops though.
HVAC will work better, as it is quieter and on really hot days, this won’t provide the cold air than HVAC would
@@fanshvacandmore14 There are ducted whole house fans that are also quieter and are used when there is cold air outside
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i have one in my house i live in now
and one in my first house
That's nice..
yeah my friend has one too
That's nice..
CAUTION AUTOMATICALLY OPERATED DEVICE TURN SWITCH OFF BEFORE WORKING ON OR NEAR THIS FAN
OK then
@@JordanU did it in caps because it was in caps on the sticker...but was kinda debating wether to do it or not...so i did. not because i was angry or mad just fyi. I guess you already. knew that?
@@lennongroover4189 You don't make sense.
I have a Sears fan of same vintage and it recently quit running and have been researching the Googles to find parts for it. During troubleshooting I found that while there was power downstream of the switch, there was no power at the hookup connection on the fan motor. Went into the attic to trace the wiring and found a device such as shown in your video on a rafter above the fan wired between the fan switch and the motor. There was power up to this thing, but dead on the fan motor side. Device had an on/off switch on it that had failed. Put a jumper across it and the fan came on. This thing seems to be intended to enable automatic starting of the fan when the attic space reaches a certain temperature and also has a thermal trip switch in it to shut the fan down in event of fire. The device is a Sears part no longer available. I can use the fan without the thing, but will be looking for some sort of alternate device to wire in for fire safety.
You may be able to adapt a fan and limit switch that is intended for a warm-air furnace, if this type of switch has the range of temperature settings that you would need.
These are typically used to start the furnace blower after the burner has warmed up the heat exchanger, and stop the blower some time after the burner is cut off by the room thermostat. This function could be used to turn the fan on and off for normal operation.
The other function of the fan and limit switch is to cut off the burner if the interior of the furnace gets too hot, as it would in the case of a blower failure. This could be wired in series with the other portion of the switch to cut off the attic fan in case of fire.@@ralphjones6165
make a another video about it
I will eventually,, but probably not soon..
but why
but why
Because that's what I've decided to do..
because he said so...
and where did this come from?🤔
Where did what come from?
@@JordanU the fan
like where was it bought from
@@lennongroover4189 Sears products were sold at Sears...
These fan cause mom to be angry because...
Son: I wanna my phone(angry in heart)
Mom: No unless you do the chores
Son: ok(angry in heart)
Son: (Tries to close the door slowly)
The fan: MY TIME TO SHINE
The door: oh no fan dont make me slam...
Son: Omg
Mom:DID U JUST SLAM THE DOOR FINE YOU ARE GROUNDED
cheaper than a fan coil unit.
OK
2:01 on
3:31 off
What about it?
So pet parakeets and conures are not part of the family at this house.
There are no pets in this house..
My name is Emerson
OK
I really want to like let it suck up papers and stuff...
I don't, because if it breaks we won't be able to get another one that's as good..
From 1977
That sounds about right..
Does this fan still work?
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That doesn't make sense..
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That doesn't make sense..
this is scaree
What is?
Why
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