Vintage fans

[EatenByLimestone]

For some reason I think vintage fans are cool.

This winter, one of my fans/heaters at the cabin had the heater part quit. The fan worked fine. Ok, should be an easy troubleshoot. I grabbed a multimeter and started testing the heating circuit. I couldn’t find the break. I called another set of eyes over and ran through my findings. We looked over everything we could see and found no breaks. We ended up plugging it in. He saw a spark below the heating coil. I pulled it apart and found that the cloth wires frayed under it. Probably just a little bit of rubbing every year since the 50s, lol. Since it was rubbing against metal, I guess it’d still have continuity some times.


I’ll get it fixed tomorrow. I can’t find my spool of stranded wire I know is in the shed from when I was wiring the boat.

 

[EatenByLimestone]

Went out and looked again and found my spools. Red and black. That’s not going to help the next one to tear this apart! I went down a few cabins and they had an old spool of green. Still not the best, but better than 2 whites that were there first and better than the red/black combo that could have replaced it.

 

[Whitenuckler]

For some reason I think vintage fans are cool.

This winter, one of my fans/heaters at the cabin had the heater part quit. The fan worked fine. Ok, should be an easy troubleshoot. I grabbed a multimeter and started testing the heating circuit. I couldn’t find the break. I called another set of eyes over and ran through my findings. We looked over everything we could see and found no breaks. We ended up plugging it in. He saw a spark below the heating coil. I pulled it apart and found that the cloth wires frayed under it. Probably just a little bit of rubbing every year since the 50s, lol. Since it was rubbing against metal, I guess it’d still have continuity some times.


I’ll get it fixed tomorrow. I can’t find my spool of stranded wire I know is in the shed from when I was wiring the boat.

That is high temperature wire. The last time I used some was for wiring the electric heater for my smoker egg. I had to order it.

 

[EatenByLimestone]

Oh. Well that could change things. Can you provide a link to it?

 

[Whitenuckler]

Oh. Well that could change things. Can you provide a link to it?

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0B79WRRQ2?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_7&th=1

PATIKIL 9.8Ft 13AWG High Temperature Wire, -60-350 Degrees Celsius Mica Glass Fiber Electronic Wire Insulated Heat Resistant Electronical Flexible Cable for Lamp Boiler Heater, White​

 

[EatenByLimestone]

Will look into it! Thank you!