Vince
I've never had an aluminum fan to review, but I am not particularly impressed with them either based on the ones I have seen casually.
Vince
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Here are a series of pics outlining some of the many things that are no good with repro parts. A year ago I was on a quest looking for good waterpump shafts and/or fan hubs. Mostly what I found was a lot of junk. I bought a couple of hundred dollars worth of parts from 4-5 different sources. At the end of the day I am using the only good shaft I found which Don Turley got me, and an original fan.
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| Hard to see in the pic, but this taper is actually two tapers (neither one correct) and has a distinct transition between the two. JUNK! |
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Also hard to see in the pic, but this taper is actually ground non-concentric with the shaft centerline. JUNK! |
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This is the hub on the plastic six blade fan. The taper hub is machined improperly and exposes the end of the taper, preventing the nut from tightening the hub on the shaft. The shaft is an NORS Toledo shaft from the 40s or 50s and is good, it is the hub that is bad. Original hubs fit this shaft just fine. The hub is JUNK! | I've never had an aluminum fan to review, but I am not particularly impressed with them either based on the ones I have seen casually. Vince |
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