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I recently bought a rubber blade fan at an estate sale. It works fine but the wiring is very poor. It appears as though it may be the original but then again, it looks like it is regular brown lamp wiring. I saw another fan just like it on a car at a car show this past weekend and it had the same type wiring. I spoke with the owner and he said he was the third owner and as far as he knew, the fan wire was the original. Does anyone know if these fans came originally with a wire very similar to brown lamp wiring? By the way, I got the fan for $5.00 so now I don't feel so bad that I got ripped off by an unscrupulous ebay seller (Steve's48) when I bought a junk fan for $75.00 that he totally misrepresented and then would not answer my email. Thanks for any info on the wiring. Beamer

The brown rubber covered wire is what I remember. The wire was exposed so the brown rubber looked better than the cloth covered wire used back then plus it was more flexible.

my 30 had a fan mounted on the steering cloumn when i got it. it too had a brown rubber wire running to it from the key switch. i just replaced it with standard brown light zip cord.

:vcca: Thanks guys. Brown lamp cord it is. For once, something will be, or should be, easy and cheap since I already have a good supply of this wire. Beamer

Actually, the wire was smaller than lamp cord. Do some looking around and see if you can't locate some of the smaller wire.

:vcca: I do have some smaller brown cord but I am concerned about the gauge. It looks like what is on there might be a 14. Don't want to go too small and have a fire. Thanks. Beamer

i don`t remember but i`m pretty sure i used 16 gauge wire.
BTW. my fan has 2 speeds.

I need to find one for my 37 p/u since it has no defroster but mine how has 12 volts.

Mine is a two speed also, runs very quiet at either speed. I cannot find any identification data on it anywhere. I want to put a fuse in the line. Does anyone have any idea what size I should use? Beamer

Something around 10 amps should be sufficient for a small 6 V eletric motor.

If it is not listed and sometimes pictured in your parts or accessories book, it is not for your car. It is however, a Genuine Chevrolet accessory, and is pictured in the 1941 accessory book.

{You will see an article on it in my "Genuine Chevrolet Accessories for 1941" series.

Think someone could post a few pictures of those there fans so us’ens that don’t get out much could see what a real one looks like? I remember seeing them when I was a kid but that was more than half a century ago.
Thanks
DG

heres a picture of my mounted fan.
i don`t like the ugly green paint. but thats the color is was and i wanted to keep it stock.
a lot of people think its my AC

I have seen many of those fans, but never one that was originally green. Looks like a repaint.

i don`t think its a repaint. could be????
i sanded it down to bare metal and found no other colors under the green paint. i don`t think this one was a chevy dealer installed fan. somebody must of added it thur the years. my car also has a after market hot water heater too.

There were probably a half of dozen companies that made rubber bladed fans. The fan sold by Chevrolet was made by Casco.Chevrolet describes the fan as harmonizing with the interior colors so brown would have been chosen Casco sold teh fan under their name also and may have been sold in various colors.
The fan pictured looks nothing like the picture of the Casco fan that is in Chevrolet literature.

the nut
thanks for the infor.
my fan only has 2 blades too. a lot of them i see has 3 blades.

Beamer sent me a handful of pictures of the fan that he was describing. I also posted an alternate bracket that he had. Just click the photos for a full screen picture:
http://www.pbase.com/dennygraham/ad_interior
It’s not clear from the thread if this is a GM accessory so if anyone has pictures or scans of a Chevy Accessory brochures from that period it would be a nice comparison. If you don’t have the option to post them to an album and want to send me an email with a jpeg image attached, I’d post it in my album along with Beamer's fan.
Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL

:vcca: While this in not the official GM accessory rubber bladed fan, it is very similar. Chev Nut sent me a photo of the official one and it has the name "Casco" stamped by the screw holding the blade housing on. As I said before, this fan does not have any ID markings whatsoever so it is obviously an after market accessory. Beamer

Great glad we cleared that up, I missed that even though I read the thread a couple of times. Even though it isn't Genuine GM it still looks period correct to 95% of the people who would notice it.
Thanks Beamer,
Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL

gene e mailed this picture and wanted me to post it here

The rubber blade fan pictured is from 1938 accessories. Is not shown in the 1937 accy book but the same fan is stil in the 1948 book.

Thanks to boat of you guys. Looks like the GM fan motor was just like the green one that buggymangp posted last week. His has a different mount but the same style motor, much like a heater motor.
I was expecting the motor to be more like those with the beehive case that Beamer found. That’s what a lot of the later Casco motor cases looked like from what my research turned up and what I have found on evilbay.
So Gene, am I to assume that GM quit offering the fans after '48 with the improved heater/defrosters that were avalable there after?? I didn't see any listing for fans in the Salesmans data book or the '50 Chevrolet Accessory list.
Thanks for the pics
Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL

your welcome.
its about time i start giving back to the club for all the help i get here.

I just noticed on the rubber fan, after blowing up the picture, CASCO is embossed into the hub of the blade.
DG