attic fans????

[jasonl]

That was an improvement

When he made men, He put the playground IN the sewage system. Surely not code.

 

[kevinpreston8]

Jason...

It was THESE that were in my auditorium.

Not as scary as fans, but odd indeed. I know these came in various sizes. I looked at a 50's house that had tiny ones, and the ones in our auditorium, as I mentioned, were massive. Thoughts?

 

[jasonl]

OH yeah. I love the way those look, but when I was 2 or 3 years old, I didn't.

 

[peterh770]

For me, it is just a phobia. I have great bladder control because of it. Something about that black hole in the ceiling with that grill around it and the enclosed space.

When I went with Jimmy and Greg to the Great and Holy Appliance Burial Ground in Aberdeen, ND, we checked into a little mom & pop hotel that charged $29 a night, if I remember correctly. When I got to my room, as soon as I was in, I noticed a cord hanging down in the middle of the bathroom across the hotel room. I immediate knew I was in trouble. I barely survived the weekend, and openly cursed the Terror in the bath every chance I got.

Whole house fans aren't bad; I think the fear most kids have is that they will get sucked up into it. Big and noisy, the louvres open and up you go! Never to be seen or heard from again.

Note to self: call Steven King

 

[tolivac]

At the Tx site I work at the blower rooms have large screen guards over the Blower intake openings-you feel your body actually being sucked to the fan as you walk by it-could imagine if that guard WASN't there-and an arm or peice of clothing got into the fan-its being turned by a 15Hp motor.On rare occasions you have to go into blower rooms if the intake shutters don't open-and the transmitter is overheating.You then have to open them by hand and jam a wood block into them to keep them open or disconnect the air cylinder that open-closes the shutters.

 

[mrtide]

Those attic fans were scary to a kid

Namely me. With the roaring motor and the sudden opening of the louvers (thrash!). Lived with one down south the first 7 years of my life, but it's all us po folks had. Actually in the 50's, we had a window unit made by Westinghouse plugged into a 110. We only ran it when company came. Our neighbors had a central AC that had an old wooden cooling tower where the coils were bathed in water sprayed through a pipe which reached up to the top of the tower. The tower had a pump and a float at the bottom of the tower. The other next door neighbors had a gas AC which was gigantic and I doubt it is used now as repair parts are hard to come by. As you can tell our neighbors had more money than we did, but we had a good life back in the olden days. This was a suburban locale, out of the city, but not really in the country.