Ceiling fan advice

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Even if the fan is not reversible (good possibility with a 1979 fan) DO NOT REPLACE IT!! It has already lasted longer than all but the most expensive "new" fans will ever think of lasting. I put up a new ceiling fan in our stove room (basement living room), and as soon as I can find an older one to fit the location, it is coming down. It hardly moves any air and buzzes like a razor. As posted above, you may be lucky to have a Hunter original, which will likely last another hundred years or so, as long as you keep it oiled.

Yeah.. I'm not going to replace it. I put oil in it every few years. It works beautifully and does a nice job keep us cooler in the summer too.
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You have nice bikes I am still riding my 30 year old Yamaha's. My street bike is a Virago and my dirt bike is an IT490.
Both bikes run awesome so I haven't had the urge to upgrade yet. Maybe one day I will.

I'm jealous of your Fireview, but I'm not selling the Valkyrie to get one! :) ...and the HD EGC is sweet too. Spring will be here soon, and I am just recetnly retired so everyday is Saturday. :)
 
What are you trying to do with the ceiling fan? If you need to move heat out of the stove room to other rooms, It may work better if you have a small, low-speed fan on the floor just outside the stove room, blowing cool air back to the stove. Sometimes the ceiling fan will disrupt the natural convection out of the stove room, whereas the fan on the floor enhances it. The hot air will stay higher, not roasting you out when you are seated in the stove room. The speed of the floor fan has to be low or it will disrupt the natural convection...

I bought one of these to push colder floor air from my back rooms down a short hallway into the main living area and it does a nice job getting warmer heated air back into the two back rooms off that hallway.

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OH...I'm betting that, if your fans are circa 1979, they don't have the switch that reverses the blade direction. I have a cabin built in the 50s with a fan that has no such switch. If anyone knows how to deal with this situation, would appreciate some advice.

We have one in our dining room like this, came with the cottage. We just don't use it in the winter :p
 
Yeah.. I'm not going to replace it. I put oil in it every few years. It works beautifully and does a nice job keep us cooler in the summer too.
You can make that "reversible" by replacing the blade "irons" with adjustable ones.
 
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I have a setup similar to yours, a cathedral ceiling in the stove room that is open to a balcony on the second floor, I have ours blowing down. My dad was telling me about something he read that I should reverse it in the winter so the hot air is sucked up and comes back down the walls. Long story short, I reversed it for a day, then switched it right back. The heat was sucked up all right, but never came back down.
 
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You could try contacting the Hunter fan company, (have the model number handy), and see if they still make parts for that fan, from the pictures, yours appears to be either a 36" or 42", so parts may be scarce, if they even made reversible irons for that fan.
 
Actually, I just took a second look at your picture, and you *may* already have revers-air irons. Could you post a better picture of the blade irons? I think I see the pivot point where they would turn, to reverse the airflow.
 
You could try contacting the Hunter fan company, (have the model number handy), and see if they still make parts for that fan, from the pictures, yours appears to be either a 36" or 42", so parts may be scarce, if they even made reversible irons for that fan.

Thanks Dustin, a phone call is worth it. I'll give that a try.
 
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