1930's Table Fan Restoration
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- čas přidán 3. 10. 2019
- I found this table fan at a flea market. The brand is Use-Apel. Based on the design and the bakelite, I think it was made in the 30-40s. It was broken in half and needed a restoration. As I coudn't polish the cracked bakelite, I chose a metallic red paint :)
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I have no idea how many fan restorations of different standards I have seen, some have ended up looking pretty amazing. Yours was easily in the worst state to begin with.
Okay, not everyone has a 3D printer, or even a sand blaster, but that doesn’t take away from your standard of work or attention to detail. Nor does it take away from your foresight to know you can fix it, and fix it well.
An outstanding restoration and a very enjoyable and enthralling video. Very well done indeed.
There are 2 part plastics and epoxy which can be shaped and when cured as very hard. Just an alternative. Or turn the piece on a lathe.
I love seeing these fans getting restore great job.
The quality of your work always manages to catch me off guard. Great job!
Splendid restoration, excellent videography. A pleasure to watch. Very well done, indeed.
It actually ran and looked good at the end, better than some others I’ve seen.
The fan looks absolutely gorgeous!
The new and very beautiful fan you now have is going to look stunning sat on your desk xxxx
I loved this restoration. Excellent job as always. Thank you for sharing your post. John
Now, that, my friend, is how you restore a fan! I haven't watched any other video of yours yet, but have subscribed simply on the strength of this one. Wonderful work. Better than many other fan restorations I have seen.
Superb restoration ! Love the antique potato repair ! Thanks for sharing!😊🇨🇦
It came out beautiful. Amazing restoration.
This is one of my all time favorite restores!
It’s sad that over the decades people have thrown away vintage cool antiques when there’s always a way to Restoration and make them working again well done.
Shawn Little and people really want to get their hands on things to restore
I bought an old 1943 black fan back in 1974 for $5. Restored it & used it every night for 45 yrs until someone took it. Just got a big green 3 speed oscillating fan to restore to replace it. What fun!
Really nice work. Pretty to watch. Thank you.
Nice job! Very well done.Thanks for sharing.
It's beautiful! Very fine work.
Good job, love the old fans
Easily one of the best restaurations I've ever seen
Cool restore. Beautiful fan.
Beautiful restoration!
Very well done, excellent job on the repairs
Very nice repair/restoration!
Wow 😮Amazing restoration! Well done 👍 I am in awe... great workmanship and attention to detail! Stunning! T-Wrecks
Marvelous job!
Nice work. Made it look new and very nice. Thumbs Up!
Absolutely gorgeous!
There is a product made by mohawk called Lacquer for Brass. We use it on piano brass prevents it from tarnishing.
Thank you for the tip, i'll have to try this on future projects :)
Amazing work!🔧 Awesome!😁🔧
Dude that's badass bro, looks awesome.
Beautiful job!
Ni cuando salió de la fábrica se veía así. Eres un crack.
Very good never saw restoration like this before
Good job! I like that you showed cleaning the motor most skip over that!!
Amazing. This is art
Hi FTR 👋👋👋 good to see you 🤝🤝🤝 very good restoration desk fan👍👍👍 and color picked up good 👍👍👍🔥🔥🔥
you are a great artist 👍👍👍👍👍
Beautiful! 👍👍👍
Wow 😮a nice restoration
You deserve many, many more subscribers! Great work.
You are a very beautiful creative artist
Najlepsze odnowienie jakie widziałem, szacun.
I like to see old things getting restored as it show how poorly our moder ones are made. In the past days things were possible to disassemble and assemble, today everything is glued together.
Ah but if modern stuff could be repaired easily how would we be forced to buy new products every 2 years or so after the carefully engineered failure points break down and render the product unusable?
@@Thematt11 Yea sad true, not long ago i needed to replace cable on hairdryer, open this thing took me 2 hours and still there are pernament scratches as its made to be never opened.
Found out Batteries + has a way to open tablets to replace the battery, & reseal them. I use my older ones to play bird videos to entertain my birds. They got theirs & i got mine. 😄
Excellent!
good job!!!
Bravo monsieur 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Nice!❤️
Fun fancy fan.
Dig all the brass.
What's the name of that model? the knuckle buster? or the home finger amputation kit? Nice work on the restoration - it looks amazing.
Thank you ! I think it's called the nail shredder !
Ml ppp
Отличная работа.
Une très belle restauration de qualité. Allez, je m'abonne.
I didn’t realize that people repaired potatoes back in the old days.
Смотрел фильмы...и как же таким можно человека убить?!
Have you ever thought of an auction where us followers can get a chance to buy you restorations. That fan would look nice on my wife’s office desk.
Two things that I see as most important is that the fan blades have identical rake and that the blades are perfectly balance, if you did this off camera then it was a good project.
I checked the blades after polishing but there was little to no correction needed, it turns without vibration !
Lindo...amei 😍😍😍😍
Bela restauração.
Nice and shiny finger-cutter))
1930s safety standards ^^
Do not poke it 🔜🏥
That is one COOL brilliant job my friend, have a nice day !!!.
From Stark Industries - Iron Fan. Very nice resto.
Thank you ! I wasn't expecting brass blades when I chose the paint ^^
Не,ну это лайк однозначно 💪👍
We had a fan with just about as much space to stick fingers. I would do silly things but it was always obvious I could get hurt. Didn't need 1" max size holes.
Wow 🤩
Nice work. I am bilong from india
Still getting over the fact that you painted over that original dark red bakelite... but I guess the base was too damaged. Good work.
Danke!! Beste Wünsche aus Deutschland!
Good. Ty.
Nice job. The wife would like the red. I would have staid with black.
Very nice and well done job, but you should not have filled with plastic nor painted the bakelite parts, it's possible to restore them to the original shape by taking (extrating) bakelite powder from the internal side of the parts (that won't be seen), mixing this powder with epoxi resin and you would have instantaneous
and color matched "original" bakelite to be filling the gaps and cracks!!! After a good sanding, it would have looked brand new!!!! 💝💝💝
Il est trop beau se ventilateur
perfect
Glad to see you bust out all the toys. CR-10 army represent! (Pounds Chest)
This time it is to make something useful instead of my 3568th keyring ^^ !
@@forgottentoolsrestoration1786 Ha, I just printed a batch of pumpkin keychains 20 mins ago.
Great job man, Sub'd... I am going to start a similar project soon, 1930 General Electric fan, only problem is, mine is missing the grille... so I'm gonna have to make one... 😬
Thank you ! Good luck, it will be hard if there are a lot of curves !
Find a metal working friend to recreate one, maybe?
Look up antique fan collectors association forum, the people on there probably would have a spare. I got a good stator for free from a member for a 1930s ge quiet blade fan
WOW!
I wish the bearing on my 1950 fan were as easy to fix, the fan has a slight chattering noise and its driving me crazy
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Great job! What camera do you use to record videos?
Thank you, Canon G7X :)
Wonderful. My modest peck on it, add a tape everywhere you cut this kind of cloth wire, as it easily unravels with time from the cutting points .
Hermoso
Wow
Did you just paint bakelite????
Vai durar vários anos.
Vwat is "antique potato", please?
Iron Man would love it!
😲😲😲👏👏👏
Maybe i has seen that fan in a jumpscare game
Tony Stark would love it.
Carbolite should not be painted; it is interesting for its texture. Only peel and polish a little. The place of gluing would be visible, but it is also interesting if done carefully. And the color of the paint of metal parts is foreign to that time, unhistorically.
You are well done that restored the bearings.
You did well that you did not use a modern plastic wire as many do.
Well done, you saved the old electric plug.
The fan is of course very picturesque, but it is better to keep young children away from it, fingers feel sorry.
Very dangerous thing! The child can stick a finger between the roller rods and stay without a finger. And the cat will blow there the paws necessarily! Is it from the USSR?
Очень опасная штучка! Ребёнок может всунуть палец между прутьями решётки и остаться без пальца. А кот сунет туда лапу обязательно! Это из СССР?
Beautiful but dangerous
@7:45 antique masking tape
This fan is neat, but it will chop your fingers clean off.
я смотрю раньше о безопасности вообще не думали. защиты на лопастях вообще никакой нет. дети без пальцев останутся, да и взрослые тоже
Bakelite should look like bakelite 😒 ..but wow, excellent restoration. 🧡
Sadly, it was too damaged to be polished :/
@@forgottentoolsrestoration1786 I know. You're right. Beautiful job when it was finished and I'd got over my bakelite tantrum! 🧡
6:20 Why wouldn't you just print a whole new base?
It is possible, but it won't be like giving another life to an 80+ years old main part :)
@@forgottentoolsrestoration1786 True, and you obviously enjoy the challenge.
The baby knocked it over and broke it.
While the work done on this was great, calling it a restoration is false. A restoration is bringing something back to original and that fan was never that nice originally. It was basic, black and function over form. You've done a very well performed resto-mod.
Thank you :) I was forced to paint it since the bakelite was too damaged for polish
@@forgottentoolsrestoration1786 yes, I gathered as much but you didn't just go back with the sad black color or just clean up the fan blades, instead you went with an eye catching red and put a high polish on the blades. Very well done. Way beyond a mere restoration.
I’ve seen some fans done in the past but this one should have been the original coulor it was made as the stile and the year of it made doesn’t match the coulor red as they were all made in brown hard plastic not red.
And that would make it valuable?
Colour and style , just saying
This is not a restoration by any stretch of the word. The final product, while attractive, barely resembles the original state.