Making Blade Templates for My Antique Marelli! | Work In Progress

Описание: Turns out my RnD work on my custom blade ArtinAir ceiling fans is paying off rather well! In the day of purchase, I knew making replica blades for this fan would be much cheaper & easier than hunting for the original set, so I started work researching the shape & dimensions of the original blades, and make a near exact copy of the original design on CAD. That was when the ever so kind ‪@DanNguyenAntiquefan‬ stepped in & provided me with dimensions of an original blades, plus a file of the outline of an original blade! The blade I was designing & the blade Dan Nguyen showed to me are slightly different, but both are used in actual Marelli fans, which is a great thing because I can choose which blade design I want to make. Design wise, I like the original blade a lot more because of the unsymetrical part on the stem of the blades, but as I said in the video, making that design is going to be harder than the one I made on AutoCAD.

Speaking of RnD on my ArtinAir fans, the first time I used CAD to design a blade was on the 48" 'Globe' ceiling fan project. All the quad blade ArtinAir B48's, B36, B42, UT50, and every ArtinAir ceiling fans that's been published to YT had the blades designed directly on a piece of carton with a ruler, compass & pencil. That's why some of the fans are ill-proportioned, even a bit ugly. I myself think that the blade on the 'Globe' ceiling fan is too narrow, but I purposefully made it that way, so eh.

This also reminds me, the first time I made any sort of ceiling fans was either during kindergarten or grade school, can't exactly remember. What's still sticking to my head is the memory of me making a small homemade ceiling fan out of 4 pieces of cardboard taped to a disposable Teh Gelas cup. The motor I used to operate the fan is from a small handheld battery fan, which I think had a candy container in the hand grip part. That fan originally had a red & orange 2 wing foam blade, I yanked it off & stuck the motor on a rattan sofa we used to have, motor shaft facing down. I'd then crawl under the sofa & stick the custom 'ceiling fan' blade to the shaft, and made some contraption to keep the push to operate switch continuously depressed. I'd then watch as the small 3V brushed motor struggle to spin the large blades, only reaching an aesthetic slow RPM with a full battery. I spent something like 30 or so minutes just lying on the floor underneath the sofa watching that fan spin & waste power from the battery.

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