Is this a good vintage exhaust fan?

[a440]

Bless your heart.
Do you have vents in your bathroom at home?
Do range hoods scare you?
You are around huge blowers all of the time. Your dryers at your mats. Your Central air-conditioning unit. Sounds like it is more a visual thing.
You need to do some hypnosis and see what this is all about. I find it fascinating.
Sorry we scared you. At least you are taking a chance and looking at the thread.
Oh...Does the Nutone scare you more than the Ventrola that Greg posted? Greg's fan looks much more vicious than then Nutone.
Brent

 

[danemodsandy]

Peter:

My pic is the wall-mount kitchen fan. Greg's is the ceiling fan for bath and laundry room use.

 

[tolivac]

The blowers in our transmitter blower rooms out here are VERY scary and DANGEROUS-honestly these things can suck you in like an airplane engine.The fans run with 15Hp motors and turn at about the motor speed-the blades are about 5Ft wide-and other blowers they about 2Ft wide-and generate tremdous suction-fortunately there is a grill over the intake-if you walk by it while its running-it sucks you against the grill.And on the freezing nights--have to make sure the blowwers are off when the transmitter the blower is used with isn't in use.Otherwise the coolant can freeze.And there are other big vintage blowers out here in the HVAC room.One that is easily 10ft high-and exhausts the air from the transmitter cabinets and blows the heat outside or feeds it into the building heating system.I have to check these each of my shifts to make sure they are running properly.And to make sure the boilers are running properly-or it gets kinda cold in here!

 

[leolady]

I'm confused....

Is this fan too lightweight for wall installation over a range? I mean not powerful enough?

Should I look for another one? Thanks for all of your help.

 

[danemodsandy]

Leolady:

Those fans were used in '60s apartment kitchens, mounted in the ceiling over the range (new apartments used to be a lot more basic than they are today). They worked okay as long as you kept them clean. A wall-mounted Nutone fan like the ones shown in this thread's pictures would be much more powerful and work better.

 

[austinado16]

If youdecide not to keep it...

Let me know. I'd love it for in our vintage bathroom!

I have a vintage Vent-A-Hood range hood for sale if you're interested. It's 36" wide and silver. Happy to box and ship it. Dual blower model with fluorescent light built in. Works great and I just removed it from a home that was getting remodeled.

 

[austinado16]

Includes ductwork, and a section of the house wiring so you can see how it's supposed to be wired up, along with the wood mounting strip that mounts to the wall first, and then the hood locks into that before you put in the final mounting screws into the wall and upper cabinets.

 

[leolady]

how do I contact you? help mixfinder!

I kinda like that Vent a Hood. How much do you think it'd cost to get it chromed?

I want a shiny chrome like look to go with the handles of the stove, and Silver Surfer.

I can use the exhaust fan in my bathroom. The whole house is 1930s/40s era and is undergoing a total renovation.

I must confess..........I Leolady am a vintage freak. My whole tiny bungalow house will be vintage cottage with pizazz.

 

[danemodsandy]

Contacting Other AW Members:

Leolady:

When you want to contact another member, you do that via regular email, off this list. To get their email address, you look at the top of one of their posts, where their user name appears. Click on their user name, and their user profile will open as a new page. Their email address will be in their profile. There may be other info available there, too, such as name, age, city, etc., but not everyone makes this info available.

If you don't mind my saying so, a completely chromed range hood doesn't sound like a practical idea. It would look very spiffy, true. But keeping it sparkling and streak-free after cleaning would be a nightmare. There's a reason chrome is used mainly as a design accent. If you'll think about it, stainless steel, which can be polished, is given a brushed finish when it's used on appliances. This is to help hide minor amounts of dust or tiny streaks from cleaning.

 

[austinado16]

My email addy is in my profile...

You wouldn't want one of these chromed, for the above mentioned reasons. And being sheetmetal, the chrome would never be straight, so it would look very wavy and flawed.

If your Chambers is a color....say white....this would excellent powerder coated white, and then have just the name badge, switches, and the round trim "buttons" as chrome and leave it as that. I can have that done for you hear, as there's a powdercoater locally that I use all the time.

If your Chambers is another color, this would look excellent in that color too...sort of a mono-chromatic theme, with just the chrome accents.

Email me if you're interested and we can exchange phone numbers if you want to talk in person. I also have a beautiful chrome front Amana Radarange Touchmatic II for sale.