I’m not a fan – IOTW Report

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  1. I’m a Hunter Fan fan. They still make the “Original” design with a heavy cast iron motor with an oil bath for lubrication. They only turn one way, and you change from “up” to “down” by partially rotating each blade. It seems a like a bit too much work these days (it isn’t), but here’s the deal: there are still some of these “Original” fans running just fine every day and have been since 1890.

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  2. Umm, color me skeptical. I’ve installed enough of my own ceiling fans to question how this could happen, unless there is something unique with the design of this “King of Fans” model.

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  3. What Stirrin said. The house we bought five years ago had ceiling fans in every freaking room. Under the direction of my wife, I’ve deinstalled, repainted, cannibalized, reinstalled a dozen ceiling fans over the past few years. Whoever is putting on the blades of these “defective” fans during installation is causing the problem.

    It’s easy to miss tightening a bolt or two, especially when there are five blades and you’re up on a ladder. This sounds like the “uncontrolled acceleration” caused by the driver stepping on the gas instead of the brake, which periodically plagues the car industry.

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  4. @Irony
    They may not cut your head off, but they can cause serious injury. A friend of my brother suffered a serious cut and concussion when the ceiling fan broke loose and fell from his kitchen ceiling and a blade struck him in the temple.

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  5. @stirrin & @Thirdtwin — Here’s the language of the recall notice:

    Mara Indoor/Outdoor Ceiling Fan may detach due to an isolated manufacturing defect with the assembly of the fan blade’s locking clip to the fan flywheel, where one of the two screws retaining the locking clip is not adequately secured to the flywheel. If this occurs, the blade may detach from the fan during use, posing an injury hazard.”

    That sounds to me like the problem isn’t how the owner attaches the blades but rather a problem one step “upstream” of that. If the owner properly attaches the blade to a gadget and then that gadget comes off the flywheel, it isn’t the owner’s failure.

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  6. This happened to my brother years ago, it wasn’t a case though of a screw coming lose or the wheel being defective, a blade literally broke in half. Nobody was hurt and most of us got a good laugh of a fan blade flying across the room and all thought this was a freak thing.

    Then several years later we had one that the metal part that attaches to the blades and the base of the fan broke in half and had a blade flying across the room. It was a fan less than 6 months old and we had installed many of fans over the years. As it was still under warranty, we took it back to Lowes and discovered that due to so many of them breaking like this, they were refunding the money. I was a little scared of ceiling fans for awhile after that.

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  7. A relative of mine left his condo and let the ceiling fan run, per usual. When he came home, ALL the blades had detached and torpedoed a number of things in his living room. We theorized that once the first blade let go, the unbalance destroyed the others in short order. This episode pre-dates the HD fans by a good ten years and I’ve been checking my blades yearly ever since.

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  8. @Brad: “Looks like the Chicoms might be poisoning Fido again too.”

    It’s their M.O.
    Fido, cats, American opioid users…. how many tens of thousands have Chicom fentanyl taken down in the last 20 years?

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  9. Fans have killed more people than all of the wars of the World, combined.

    The government really needs to do something about ceiling fans!

    Only licensed ceiling fan experts should have access to them and that after adequate training and a waiting period.

    It’s fo da l’il chillens …

    izlamo delenda est …

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