Some Dude Sold Me A 1970's Lakewood Fan For Five Bucks! K Mart K 223 Box Fan Cleaning & Testing

check it out people I picked up this sweet fan at the flea market um let's see let's see if we can see anything it's pretty dirty right I think I might just leave it out in the rain or something there's these nice people here that get old cool old stuff like this sometimes and uh she said hey you can take it over there and plug it in and see if it works how y'all doing doing good and uh she said uh oh you can take it over there and plug it in and see if it works like a Lakewood box fan wouldn't work it's only 50 years old come on dad you have to plug in Aid what kind of it's aood come on people it's a l wood you don't have to plug them in all right folks so before I take it inside I've got to clean it up this thing it's got grease all over it so if I take it inside and then turn it on it's just going to blow grease all over me can't do that so I'm going to take the covers off and uh just wipe the whole thing down on the inside and then see how clean I can get these grills um it looks like there's like it's just it's not real sticky or anything but I guess it's just old but I want to clean it up before I take it in so I'll take it apart and we'll see uh we'll see how nice I can wipe it down and then we'll test it well as you can see folks it's cleaning up pretty well um that's one p pass oh that's untouched so maybe I'll go another pass let's see how good I can get this side cleaned before I start on that side I tried to take the blade off the fan it seems like it wants to stay on there so I'm just going to leave it on there why break something that isn't broke or maybe it is broke I haven't plugged it in yet it might not work boy I'm going to be mad if I clean it and then it don't it'll be all right don't worry about it we're we're going to get through this okay so actually that won't clean up any better because that's just where the paints th they just whenever they sprayed it it uh there's no paint there so that's cool all right so I'm going to keep cleaning so it's getting much [Music] cleaner the inside plate is clean other than the places where there's no paint um this bag has done a really good job of protecting the switch and we're just going to leave it alone why get water all over a switch I'm using uh Clorox with bleach and lemon scent look it kills bacteria and viruses that's what we're trying to kill so I'm cleaning it all up we're getting there let me uh clean up the fan blades next that should be easy four of them clean one of them still filthy you can see the difference I want nice clean air blowing on me not filthy air from someone else that's dirt from somebody else's house I want my own new dirt on here none of the old dirt it's got to go all right so not not removing the blade it may come off real easy but it kind of it's not doing it easy so I don't want to break it I'm afraid I'll crack the Hub so I've taken a paint brush clean paintbrush and kind of worked it down into two of these slots and now I'm just spinning it around and using it as a brush to clean the front of the motor that I can't get to and it seems like it's cleaning it off pretty well I'm going to get dust all over the floor though so I might have vacuum this up all right so I peeled the label off a little bit accidentally so I glued it back down a little glue stick okay and then if you look really close I'm sure you can do this without taking the back cover off but it actually says oil that way so there is a little oil uh place there there may be one on the front too but I'm not sure so uh this works good for Motors so uh three in one oil there's a red can which is really common and then this blue can you can get if you look around they have this at the hardware store if you're uh watching this just for entertainment purposes you don't really care about this but if you're watching this CU you're actually going to mess with one of these fans and you want to try to oil it get some of this this is good stuff for it see it actually says motor oil on it so it's not like engine oil for your car this is motor oil specifically for stuff like this I actually keep this stuff around because it uh it's just a little thicker weight than the red stuff and it you actually need it on lot of things I use it on Juke boxes and stuff like that and if you look here it says sa20 the one with the red label the more common 3 in1 oil is sa10 so this is just a little bit thicker which makes it better for Motors so I'm going to drop a little bit engineered for quarter horsepower motors or larger I'm going to drop just a few drops in it we'll see how it does whoop so that filled it up let's try it again maybe that that's two drops maybe that's three drops I don't know I don't know how much they want you to put but you probably don't need a lot you could probably get away with one drop um and who knows if it wants to go I I would suppose it goes that way let me think about it if it went that way let's see you I guess you can tell if it went that [Music] way m M I believe it goes this way I do not see a date code on the motor sometimes they have a date code on the motor but again it might be on the front um so the only thing left to do is to try to clean up these grids and then uh um try the thing out see if it actually works all right folks let's see if I was right at the flea market and you don't have to plug one of these in to test it wouldn't that be some crap if the thing didn't work I can't remember what I paid for it I didn't buy it today the the first part of the video was the day that I bought it but it's been a couple weeks I left it outside for a while cuz I didn't have time to clean it okay so these grills on it are reversible the one on the front will fit the the back the one on the back will fit the front they're exactly the same so this one had a little little boo boo uh so I put it on the back and then I put the other one on the front I believe we've got it off yeah so let's plug it up and see if I blow every breaker into our secret office here so far no breaker blown everything seems cool switch must be working all right let's turn it on so we are at off well we're going to have to do high first because if I turn it over to low you'll know that it went to high this going to screw us all up I was going to go low medium high here we go it's high it's going to blow crap all over me you think there's anything in there for it to blow out it's wonderful people you should feel it I feel like it's 1985 again boy she's quiet too other than the air noise which you want you want a fan you want the air noise to be really loud it doesn't smell the air doesn't SM wait a minute what's that I smell yeah that's 1985 air I haven't smelled that in a long time it's there's a little bit of smog there's more cigarette smoke than normal and the the McDonald's french fries uh they're still using uh beef grease in them what a cool fan now I know what you're thinking some of you are thinking well why would you do all that Ronnie why would you clean up the fan I don't know if it's if it's uh is the is the microphone all screwed up let me check if you look there's a little bit of wobble in it or are there actually I don't know if you look uh okay so see how that looks like it's wobbling I think maybe just the shaft has a weird spot on it because if you look at the concentric circles around it they're not wobbling you can see them really clearly so the little circles around that there's a there's a it almost looks 3D printed but this was before 3D printers they're they're perfectly concentric so it's I'm wondering if the shaft and the if there's just like a little bur on the end of the shaft that makes it looks like it look like it's wobbling um if you look at so like look at the edge of this part if you look at it close it's not it doesn't look like it's got any kind of wobble in it I don't know maybe a little bit but it doesn't really matter it's working perfect perfect so why would I do that why would I why would I buy a used fan at the flea market and clean it all up and whenever you're done you know it's kind of faded see how it's yellowed a little bit took all that time to clean it why would I go through all that trouble it's because this is unique you know you can still buy a fan very similar to this at the store but this is I don't know I just kind of whenever I saw it sitting there I thought hey I remember those and the thing was still in pretty good shape so it just kind of these do not have souls or anything like that of course it's an inanimate object but people built this you you know what I mean somebody took the time when I took those screws off there was somebody before me that put the screws in you know and they took time and they traded their time to build a freaking fan and they did a good job it's a quality fan look it's still working after 40 years probably I imagine it's the early 80s um it's still working after all that time so you know whoever built it they're not here to mess with it anymore they probably retired a long time ago so we can at least spend a little bit of time fixing something that they uh that they made up help them out a little bit I'm kind of like whoever build it on the on the factory line you know I'm helping them get another 40 years out of it maybe um so I don't know I just it seems cool to me um and I like that it was made in the United States that that seems cool too because that's gone there's hardly well I don't want to say that there are some things still made in the United States I'll tell you about a couple of them for one these fans are still made in the United States I know it's hard to believe it's hard to believe but I'll show you and then two I've been looking for a new uh mattress set and there's a there is a mattress factory right down the road four or five miles down the road the original mat Mattress Warehouse now they're not I'm not cutting a a a promotional video for them I don't know anything about them uh maybe their stuff sucks I don't think it does um but uh there's a they still make mattresses right here right here in Charlotte you know in other places around the East Coast so you know there are still some things made in the United States but um very cool let me see if Lakewood became uh Lasco let me look that up real quick okay so if you go on laco's website they list one box fan um which they call the Air Flex 2in1 20in box fan and air purifier in1 in1 with three speeds blah blah BL so that's basically the more modern version of this same fan um but it has the air purifier this they want $70 for it this is the only one they show on their website however I went to Home Depot let me show you what I found at Home Depot on the Shelf they have these Lasco branded box fans and if you look close said are $25 if you look close they're Made In America still made in the USA kind of so you know there Lakewood went out of business but Lasco is still holding on and they're at least trying to make them in the United States so it's kind of cool all right so I let it run about 30 minutes while I was doing some research so Lakewood and Lasco are completely different companies Lakewood went under about 2009 they went bankrupt Lasco is still in business I don't know if they've sold or what but they are still in business uh and I I tried to date it um it doesn't have a Westinghouse motor the Westinghouse Motors that looks like have a date stamp on the top which is how people are dating a lot of these and uh from what I understand this is the first generation blade for the Kmart fans and you can also tell by the the um see the way there's lines there on the little bit later ones from like the early 80s they had a little thing down here that said off high medium low this one with the lines is just a little bit older but this is not the the first one so this is the westing house ones would have been mid 70s and and if it had that little if the label was different it would be early 8s so this is probably 1977 1978 something like that but still works great oh and apparently the people that are all into the fans they love watching it spin down so let's turn it off from high and then we'll see uh we'll see how long it takes it to spin all the way down pretty cool yeah that's well built what a nice fan I like that okay so I have one more thing to show you so like I said I picked this up a couple weeks go but guess what I picked up yesterday you're not going to believe it ain't she beautiful now this one I had to pay like $15 for you know this is more your collectable this more your collectable stuff here people um that one I don't remember what I paid for that it was five or 10 bucks I don't remember specifically um let's see here I haven't plugged this in or anything I got this at an auction an online auction this may work or it may not work this might be a project for another video if it doesn't work but really there's not much to them from what I understand though it oscillates I wonder if it is this sucker going to move on it own that would be amazing or do or it does it just is it just movable um let's loosen this see if we can tilt it forward a little bit boy it's got a heavy motor I'm sure this motor could use some some oil too it almost looks like there's some kind of kind of looks like it moves on its own people that would be pretty cool now how old is this thing half an amp 115 volt 60 Cycle AC only nap Monarch company St Louis USA I know it's St Louis it's it's all right people I'm trying to be funny here come on now well I'm going just we're going to let her rip potato chip letter rip Tater chip yeah we're just going to plug it up now this is before my time I never saw anything like this but I I mean I saw it but whenever when we were whenever I was a kid we didn't have anything like this one thing I was looking at though what's going on there I mean I ain't no guinas but that's pretty damn close to that bar I don't know I guess it ain't hitting it listen for listen for metal hitting it hit something is it going to be all right like that I guess it's all right like that I guess that's one thing about Metal blades they Bend yeah one of them's bent all hell ain't it so let's see if we can figure it out so that one lines up there that one is much more forward that one is much more forward that one is much more forward and there's only four of them so I guess what that means is this one's bent back a little bit look this is scientific people I I guess it's all right all right let's turn her on I don't know about the wiring I don't know if it's on off what's going on we're about to find out if it blows a fuse it blows a fuse dead as hell it's moving oh my God that's incredible I can't believe that I have never seen anything like this before in my life now I've seen oscillating fans obviously but I've never seen an old metal one that does it unbelievable so I'm going have to look up how to oil this one let's see if there's different speeds no just one speed that's fine this one's going to need some oil too though you know what I mean so let's let's give it the whole thing so you can see what she's doing I'm going carefully reach around to the back so I don't lose any diots it says it's a Jack Frost it says that is incredible you know what I'll bet you can change how far it goes cuz it's just barely moving oh don't cut my hand off Mr fan Mr Jack Frost please don't cut off my hand let's see if you can adjust how far it moves yep you loosen this and then you slide it to the end of that rod and then tight it back up and it's going to go farther what a brilliant freaking design wow what a cool design I have never seen that I've probably seen them and just never paid any attention I am amazed what a cool design I guess that's probably how the plastic ones work too huh the cheapos well there you go folks I hope you enjoyed it there's my foray in the fans I don't know much about them but boy I feel good now and I got AC too I got AC and I got oh and I got fans it's unbelievable so I hope you enjoyed it do you know anything about these fans that you could tell me how do I oil this one I want to make sure this one lasts this thing's old I mean that's probably 50s maybe 40s but I got to figure out how to oil that so it'll last a long time look at the look at the little Mech down there that is so cool all right so leave your comments below let me know what you think I hope you enjoyed the video if you're if you only watch our channel for arcade game puke boox pinball machine videos I guess I should have mentioned that at the front of the video but uh on the weekends sometimes I mess around and do some weird stuff like this so I hope you enjoyed it leave your comments below like I mentioned uh make sure to check out my brother Donnie he's my cohort my me me Donnie and Joey uh Donnie finds me stuff sometimes and Joey finds me stuff sometimes so don't blame just me right some of these Donnie picked up and some of this stuff Joey picked up uh but I think these will be good additions to my little collection here you know I kind of like um the cheaper ones I don't really like the high-end stuff I kind of like the lower end stuff cuz that's what normal people buy you know so like this fan this doesn't look like an expensive fan to me from when it came out you know this would have than what you know normal people want there's nothing wrong with being rich um but a lot of us ain't Rich you know what I mean hey is that look it's not centered is it so maybe that's all bent down a little bit or something that's why it's closer to the top than it is the bottom yeah so I kind of like the the the less expensive ones that's why I like some of these clocks you know some of them are expensive but I like the ones that are kind of plain um it's just the ones I prefer so anyway I hope you enjoyed the video check out my brother Donnie's channel the link is down below and we will see you back here in a couple days with some more arcade game Pinball Machine and jukebox repair vide