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Straightening ceiling fan blades
On May 16, 12:24*pm, jamesgangnc wrote:
On May 16, 11:52*am, N8N wrote: On May 16, 11:16*am, "Steve B" wrote: We put some fans out on our patio. *Over a few years, the blades have drooped. *These blades appear to be some type of luan, about 3/16" wide. They appear to be either composite plastic, or some form of pulped wood. Can they be straightened? *Maybe put in an oven with some brick weights, and a pan of water to make a steam chamber out of it? *Other suggestions? If I go buy new ones, are there different materials and grades? *The local ReStore, (the one for Habitat for Humanity) has sets of 5 for $3, and I'll take them Wednesday when I go to see if the bolt pattern is the same. *But just wondering if these can be salvaged. Steve I'd be tempted to see if you can get new ones of fiberglass or plastic. *They're typically just a piece of flat stock with three holes drilled in them. *If you're handy and have a source for some suitable stock you can make them yourself. *Or have some made from Damascus steel nate Took a few years to sag. *Flip them and he'll get that again minimum. Making blades is just silly unless you have nothing better to do and all the purchased ones will probably have the same problem eventually.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I've had a fairly inexpensive fan in my kitchen for over 20 years and the blades have not sagged one iota. (I say "fairly inexpensive" because I remember thinking at the time that my wife bought it "This is too cheap to last very long, but I'll make her happy and put it up. Boy, was I wrong!) The blades are indeed some type of pressed material. I know this because I was trying to clean them once and the ultra thin layer of paint started to wipe off and exposed the material underneath. I primed and painted them to make them white again. Maybe that's why they never sagged. Perhaps that would be a good preventative maintenance step to take before installing a fan. |
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Straightening ceiling fan blades
On May 16, 1:40*pm, DerbyDad03 wrote:
On May 16, 12:24*pm, jamesgangnc wrote: On May 16, 11:52*am, N8N wrote: On May 16, 11:16*am, "Steve B" wrote: We put some fans out on our patio. *Over a few years, the blades have drooped. *These blades appear to be some type of luan, about 3/16" wide. They appear to be either composite plastic, or some form of pulped wood. Can they be straightened? *Maybe put in an oven with some brick weights, and a pan of water to make a steam chamber out of it? *Other suggestions? If I go buy new ones, are there different materials and grades? *The local ReStore, (the one for Habitat for Humanity) has sets of 5 for $3, and I'll take them Wednesday when I go to see if the bolt pattern is the same. *But just wondering if these can be salvaged. Steve I'd be tempted to see if you can get new ones of fiberglass or plastic. *They're typically just a piece of flat stock with three holes drilled in them. *If you're handy and have a source for some suitable stock you can make them yourself. *Or have some made from Damascus steel nate Took a few years to sag. *Flip them and he'll get that again minimum. Making blades is just silly unless you have nothing better to do and all the purchased ones will probably have the same problem eventually.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I've had a fairly inexpensive fan in my kitchen for over 20 years and the blades have not sagged one iota. (I say "fairly inexpensive" because I remember thinking at the time that my wife bought it "This is too cheap to last very long, but I'll make her happy and put it up. Boy, was I wrong!) The blades are indeed some type of pressed material. I know this because I was trying to clean them once and the ultra thin layer of paint started to wipe off and exposed the material underneath. I primed and painted them to make them white again. Maybe that's why they never sagged. Perhaps that would be a good preventative maintenance step to take before installing a fan.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - His sagged because he has it on a porch where the humidity probably gets high from time to time. |
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