Converting A Box Fan To Ceiling Fan
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
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#boxfantoceilingfan
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Lucky break finding another damaged fan just laying there on your bench!😁
What are the chances?
Luck? Where we are going, we don’t need luck
That is some precision disassembly.
This is perfect. I have a 20x20 garage I just put a wall mount natural gas heater in and I have 10 ft ceilings. Been wanting a small fan to help push some heat back down . Totally doing this. Great video
Let me know how it works out for ya - I’m loving having added these
Okay for "entertainment purposes" if someone was looking to do something like this and did want to extend that potentiometer away from the fan motor, is there a specific type of wire to use? Like a specific gauge?
I've read the bearings on those don't like to be perpendicular to their intended orientation, but I guess we'll see how long those last!
What kind of bearing is in these?
@@NickFerry All the ones I've taken apart use sleeve bearings which don't like it when the shaft isn't horizontal. They do work for sometime that way, I'll sometimes do it to dry out some shoes or something. But actual ceiling fans are cheap/free around here. On my street, people throw away perfectly good ones because they want a modern appearance.
It works. Nice design on the mounting brackets
Great installation for summer. To use this setup in winter would require the fan to blow in a clockwise position.
Yes and no - yes, that’s ideal in traditional circulation patterns - no in this case, because I mounted them inline with the heater to force the hot air down to my bench & TS
Never fail to crack me up and learn me somethin' at the same time
Wife been trying to figure out how to mount my standing fan …. Meanwhile I have two box fans🤦🏼♀️thanks
my pleasure - thanks for the pvc idea
Nice. Next up. How to turn a ceiling fan into a box fan...
I like it
Nice job. I'll definitely think about this for some old fans in future.
Thank you so much. I had it hanging from chain and the box all around. Now my daughter's room is way more cooler. Thanks for the how to. Rock on
🤘🏼I will - ✌🏼
This is such a BOSS project! I am in awe… So cool! 😍
thanks - sharing is caring ;)
The wind blown glamour shots at the end... Perfection lol.
Haha I aim to please
PVC pipe would be a better dowel and you can run the wire thru it
yes! - i have a fair bit of pvc laying around too - I need you in the shop during beerstorming ideas
That is some precision disasseembly
Loved it! Loved the comment about Great Grandpa inventing lighting!
Hijinks and shenanigans of the highest order!! Very little digression...
Just what I needed!
I love you buddy 👊
I could use one of those on my back porch to keep the birds from going to the bathroom on my porch.
Nice! I've thought of doing this, and even tried it out to an extent, but not to the extent and precision that you did; I just made a half-assed test model, but nothing worthy of mounting, like yours! Very, very cool! I still have a box fan from the late 80s, when I was in Jr. high school, from when they still had stronger motors and fuller blades! I reckon I may use the method that you have demonstrated, as it looks like it would work very well, even with my childhood box fan, which probably actually has a bit of "kick"/torque to it! I think the idea of putting the nail into the mounting block, like you had demonstrated, is a great idea!
I’m pretty sure I know exactly what fans you’re talking about from the 80s they were just like a heavy box of metal and yeah I think Macgomery ward made a bunch of them I think maybe even Kenmore - those were some beasts
@@NickFerry
They were the old beige Lakewood box fans, though I think K-Mart sold a blue model. The box fans of the early-mid 1980s didn't even require "feet" as they were big and wide...however, around late 1988/early 1989, they first introduced the (slightly) thinner box with the "attach enclosed feet to bottom of fan" sticker on top, to better accommodate windows, and to save money, no doubt, however I have one of the rare "in-between" models that have the original huge blades on the early slimmer box; within a year or less, all lakewood fans began having (somewhat) crescent-shaped blades. These were sold in the very late 1980s and early 1990s...probably into the mid 1990s.
They don't make 'em like they used to! I did, in fact have a mid-80s full-sized box fan -no "feet" required, that I bought at a flea market in the 2000s. Sadly, when I had it in the window, my storm window slid down, blocking the exhaust airflow, and burning out the motor! If I were not moving to another state, I would have kept it, as the front and back grills were in perfect condition, which was *RARE* for the brittle plastic they used in the old grills! This was my one and only complaint about 80s box fans. I knew so many people who had replaced the plastic grills with window screens, as they broke so easily!
I do remember my neighbor having a late-1970s/early 1980s Montgomery Ward box Fan with the sharp corners and fancy (but brittle and broken) plastic grill! Haha.
"Your great great grandfather invented lightening." Why did that make me laugh out loud? Taking a swag, it made me feel less old?
If I had to guess, I’d say it was my pure, unadulterated sarcastic satire sprinkled with deadpan that really brought home the lol’s
@@NickFerry Ok Dear Sir, will have none of that! Your going to ruin my agelast reputation! 😋😜
@@jeliarra 😂
5 Minute Crafts would be jealous.
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Awesome vid Dude. You are very entertaining to say the least 🤣. Nice trick on the ceiling fan. I have two old box fans and got your channel on my YT search. Love your technique 👌.
Awesome, thanks - have a look around & let me know if you have any questions - juice & coffee are in back
Always good for a laugh! But great idea
Thanks man
I'm gonna do this with an air king box fan because it has the 3 prong cord.
This might allow me to anchor it to an electric ceiling box without the hassle.
Great idea ✌🏼
@@NickFerry yea. By the way to clarify though, what I meant by anchoring it is that I might design a harness to fix the fan to the ceiling fan mounting bracket. Also I would splice the cord and connect each wire to their respective wires in the ceiling box.
I am so happy to see that your mental health has faired as well as the rest of us during this time... :D
I’m as even keel as even keel can even keel
Haha you're crazy. Really cool job
Cool as ...... I'm a big fan!
Keep 'er lit Bro!
Haha thanks Ivan
I'm not saying you did anything wrong here, but...couldn't you have just mounted the whole box fan up there? Couple of straps over the pipe or something? I say this only because I had a regular household ceiling fan/light in my garage, but I kept knocking things into it, and an enclosure may have prevented a lot of that.
Not being able to get hit in the bean whilst traversing my step ladder (I never knew my real ladder) would be a lot less fun - I needed to remove the enclosure on the first fan & figured a matching aesthetic coupled with less dust collecting ability was in order - I debated leaving the second enclosure and adding a furnace filter which would make a good option as well
You're a GD wizard, Ferry! -Hagrid
OMG, awesome video. Now I know how photographers get that wind effect for their photo shoots😂😂😂😂👍👍👍
And sell all those detangling combs 😂
Perfect ending... 😂
This is genius
Funny, all of my box fans are broken in some way. 😁 Neat idea! Thanks for sharing!
I was surprised by the startup sound!
Weren’t we all?
You're back to being a regular?
Love the damage fan bit. JimE
If I have something to anyway
So in review, it’s smash smash, bend bend, pop pull…then saw saw??
Or was it the other way round?
channeling your inner Matthias Wandel
No
Why not just leave the fan in one piece in Mount the whole box to ceiling?
The beginning of the video is where the answer to your question resides
I seen you left a comment on jelly rolls new music! So I had to click on your video when you put that fan up on your ceiling I was having all the feels on that part!
Hahahaha - too funny
Great production
That is actually creative but can you do the blades longer?
Yes
Ingenious.......bet it will help a lot!
It really is - thank Lori
Just blowing us away with another cool idea :-)
Hey, my great grandfather invented lightning thanks for the shout out 😉
I KNEW IT!!!
How did you make it remote?
Hey man! I can't find the video that shows how to make the mount pieces
I believe that - makes complete sense to me
Thanks Nick!
Sooo. Why not just mount the entire box? Ducted fans are more efficient. Although there is that grill on either side..
The weight of the entire box would tip my neighborhood over
no lie I have been wanting to do this for years I need to make one asap... How did you connect the remote?
Plugged into a switched outlet
Great video!
Thanks
and here I am just sitting the fan on the ceiling joists like a dweeb
Hahaha
Lookin good!
Thanks Marsh
Cool
Get a blue box fan and make it into a ceiling fan
Share?
No you should make one
Guess I’m not familiar with blue box fan
I mean the color blue
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That was brilliant bro
Where in the name of Odin is the rest of you?? Have not been watching that much UA-cam lately, but you have slimed down! Half of you are gone!
This project blows…
Seems a little wasteful. Do you think that leftover cage would securely house a small child, say 7 or 8 years old? I don't mind squashing them down a little if necessary.
A little squishing may be necessary - but a think with a little practice….
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5:20 their called downrods!
This is what happens I he has his @Hpad mode on 0:29
no idea what you're saying but i do have a safety shirt on so...
I did that before
Your award and trophy is at the end of the aisle to the left
Very bad idea. Those fan blades turning that fast can cause serious harm.
Outlaw ceiling fans everywhere!
@@NickFerry Be funny if you want, but ceiling fans turn slow for a reason. That is a terrible idea.
I can literally stick my hand in it on high and it does nothing - but hey what would that matter
@@NickFerry Right
You will get a neckache.
First! ;)
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Ceiling
Fan in Ohio 😂
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No… just say No… 🤦♂️
You know you want to… I won’t say anything if you don’t
Wow, that is one cheap looking fan