I remember you guys talking about exhaust fans on here a good while back. Well, today, I helped my parents clean some stuff out of the attic and I found this old window fan that's at least as old as I am . It may be just an old fan, but there's a bit of sentimental value to it. We didn't have air conditioning in the house until at least 1986 or so. To cool off in the summer, we retreated to the basement. During the summer, this fan ran 24-7 in the dining room window upstairs to keep the house comfortable. At night, when it was time to go to bed, the cooler outside air would be drawn in by it.
I remember going to sleep as a kid serenaded by the humming of this fan, accompanied by the chirping of crickets and katydids out my back window which overlooked the woods behind the house. The cool breeze of a summer night that was drafted in by the fan felt great and I would quickly drift off to sleep after a long day of doing all sorts of summertime kid stuff! One of the other fun things I remember about it was walking up to it and talking to it, enjoying the "robotic" sound that it would make out of my voice when it got chopped up by the fan blades
I installed the fan in my spare bedroom and turned it on this evening. It didn't take long for it to draw in the cool outside air, and that unforgettable hum gave me flashbacks of relaxing in the bed as a kid at night thinking about all the fun stuff I got into that day. It's also truly amazing that despite all the useage this fan had over the years it still runs like the day it was purchased...they really built things to last back then! Dad mentioned he had paid a lot of money for that fan when he bought it...he got what he paid for, that's for sure! The fan has a 2-speed reversable General Electric motor in it and a thermostat to switch it off if it gets too chilly
I remember going to sleep as a kid serenaded by the humming of this fan, accompanied by the chirping of crickets and katydids out my back window which overlooked the woods behind the house. The cool breeze of a summer night that was drafted in by the fan felt great and I would quickly drift off to sleep after a long day of doing all sorts of summertime kid stuff! One of the other fun things I remember about it was walking up to it and talking to it, enjoying the "robotic" sound that it would make out of my voice when it got chopped up by the fan blades
I installed the fan in my spare bedroom and turned it on this evening. It didn't take long for it to draw in the cool outside air, and that unforgettable hum gave me flashbacks of relaxing in the bed as a kid at night thinking about all the fun stuff I got into that day. It's also truly amazing that despite all the useage this fan had over the years it still runs like the day it was purchased...they really built things to last back then! Dad mentioned he had paid a lot of money for that fan when he bought it...he got what he paid for, that's for sure! The fan has a 2-speed reversable General Electric motor in it and a thermostat to switch it off if it gets too chilly
