Union Universal and SMC? 42 inch Hugger Ceiling Fans
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- While I am Not a Ceiling Fan Collector at all , I recently Acquired a Pretty Neat ( and probably fairly Scarce) Union Universal 5 blade 42 Inch Ceiling Hugger Fan , From what I can tell this fan is from the Mid 1980s , it has the antique Brass Finish , 3speeds, its reversible , it came with the light kit and shades , and so far it runs super good , I also take a Brief Look at what I believe is an old SMC U42 that was installed here previously , and we also take a Look at a 1993ish Hampton Bay fan I installed here at my Homestead back in the 1993 Time Frame , I am Not certain if the Hampton Bay is an SMC or Encon Fan If You can Tell what they are Please Comment below thanks
The stencil design on the blades of the first fan are the more ornate stencil.
I knew of a teacher's aide that had one in this finish (with two others in polished brass). The glass shades are not original to this fan (the original glass was frosted and hexagonal in shape, with its own stencil). You definitely got a less common one, since antique brass was less common on these compared to their polished brass counterparts.
As for the "Wal-Mart" fan, did you mean HomeTrends? That was their main house brand for ceiling fans and accessories in the 1990s.
I think as far as I can tell the Shades are probably original to The Union fan as I found another video of one like mine and it also has the exact shades as mine seen in this video ua-cam.com/video/FuIbOlo6glI/v-deo.html I figured out I may have been mistaken about The Dining room Fan being from Wall Mart , its a Hampton Bay "Littleton " with the Black SMC motor It most likely came from Home depot as there is a Home Depot in this area it been so long ago I cant remember exactly where it was purchased sadly enough that fan is now retired the bearings finally gave out in the motor , wall Mart now sells a Mainstays fan that is Basically Identical to this old one
@@NorthernMaineProductionsThat I will agree with. They seemed like a common pairing with antique brass fans of the time.
Also I get the feeling that the other fan looks too new to be a 1993 or so Littleton - the SMC ones of the time had the UB42 styled motor housing (which still had that design as late as 1997), and of course a Hampton Bay logo on the switch housing, unless that was a sticker that fell off.
The Wal-Mart versions of this fan were replaced with the old Armitage style around 2009/10.
@@RRegents About the smc fan I know it was up in 1997 and had been for a few years , Back then my parents owned the house and 1997 was the year I moved out and when I was lugging a bed frame out it was running on high and I hit one of the blades with the bed frame iron and broke one completely off , it ran as a 2 paddle fan for years, Mom and Dad sold the house in 2002 and I was really amazed it was still here when I bought the house back into the family in 2014 , sadly I cannot for the life of me remember where mom Got this fan ?
@@NorthernMaineProductionsSMC's biggest retail customers were Home Depot and Kmart, though there were other retailers that sold their products under house brands as well as the SMC name. I did find a picture of a NIB SMC "42" Decorative" model online that looked like this one. Were the original blade brackets of the traditional SMC styling that you remember?
Also kind of a shame that the more generic hugger was painted like that. I'm guessing somebody did not like the brass (judging by the original finish inside of the light fitter).
@@RRegents yes the White smc UB42 had the traditional U shaped white brackets with the bleached cherry blades originally , the more traditional U42 that was in the box was indeed white with brass accents , I believe it dates from about 1988 , the lady I got it from was just sick of the white fan and painted it black with a brush none the less! needless to say it does not look that good at all that one is still an Ok runner and will get installed in My New workshop as soon as I get it built