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| Posted: Sun Nov 21st, 2010 05:48 am |
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Adam Rohn Guest
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Guys, I need 5 rubber feet to screw into the base of my GE AOU. If anyone has any PLEASE PM me! 
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| Posted: Sun Nov 21st, 2010 01:44 pm |
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Ron Powell Guest 
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Adam, I get my rubber feet at McMaster-Carr online. There same large rubber grommets I use for the cast iron entry and exit tholes for the head wire and power cord, only I cut off one lip. They don't screw in they just push in. I don't remember the size at this moment so, you'll just have to measure the depth and width of a grommet hole and order the ones that are a CLOSE match, there rubber and don't need to be EXACT. And the brass screws your looking for can be had at any good hardware store or McMaster-Carr. If your going to restore fans you'll always need these anyway so having a good stock of them wont hurt. Attached Image (viewed 666 times): Last edited on Sun Nov 21st, 2010 02:48 pm by Ron Powell |
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| Posted: Fri Nov 26th, 2010 03:49 am |
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Adam Rohn Guest
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Ron Powell wrote:Adam, I get my rubber feet at McMaster-Carr online. There same large rubber grommets I use for the cast iron entry and exit tholes for the head wire and power cord, only I cut off one lip. They don't screw in they just push in. I don't remember the size at this moment so, you'll just have to measure the depth and width of a grommet hole and order the ones that are a CLOSE match, there rubber and don't need to be EXACT. Ron, I'm a little confused. I can't see the other spots on your base but, two of the spots where you install 2 feet have holes (like mine) but the remaining 4 spots don't. So do the feet need to be glued on? I'm assuming my base needs feet because its got 3 threaded holes the switch screws into. I'll try to post a pic of the base using the forum because photobucket is being a pain right now. The reason I'm saying 6 spots now is because Darryl told me GE AOU's take 6
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| Posted: Fri Nov 26th, 2010 04:39 am |
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Ron Powell Guest
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Adam, If you count mine there's 6 and they DON'T screw in. If yours doesn't have 6 holes then there's something wrong. Didn't you take the old feet out before having it painted?
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| Posted: Fri Nov 26th, 2010 05:22 am |
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Adam Rohn Guest
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Ron Powell wrote:Adam, If you count mine there's 6 and they DON'T screw in. If yours doesn't have 6 holes then there's something wrong. Didn't you take the old feet out before having it painted? No, it came with a base plate which I'm assuming is wrong because there are 3 threaded holes on the inside of the base. ( which has 3 broken screws that Rick removed) I could be wrong but my theory is that the screws busted off in the base and no one took the time to extract them with a screw extractor so what they did was took a base plate, mounted the switch on it and then mounted the plate through the holes on the rim of the base. (You'd understand what I mean if I ever get the picture to upload on the forum)
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| Posted: Fri Nov 26th, 2010 05:22 am |
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Adam Rohn Guest
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Ron Powell wrote:Adam, If you count mine there's 6 and they DON'T screw in. If yours doesn't have 6 holes then there's something wrong. Didn't you take the old feet out before having it painted? No, it came with a base plate which I'm assuming is wrong because there are 3 threaded holes on the inside of the base. ( which has 3 broken screws that Rick removed) I could be wrong but my theory is that the screws busted off in the base and no one took the time to extract them with a screw extractor so what they did was took a base plate, mounted the switch on it and then mounted the plate through the holes on the rim of the base. (You'd understand what I mean if I ever get the picture to upload on the forum)
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| Posted: Fri Nov 26th, 2010 05:38 am |
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Adam Rohn Guest
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| Posted: Fri Nov 26th, 2010 05:39 am |
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Adam Rohn Guest
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IMG]http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk189/arohn2008
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| Posted: Fri Nov 26th, 2010 05:39 am |
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Adam Rohn Guest
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IMG]http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk189/arohn2008
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| Posted: Fri Nov 26th, 2010 05:40 am |
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Adam Rohn Guest
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IMG]http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk189/arohn2008
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| Posted: Fri Nov 26th, 2010 03:06 pm |
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Ron Powell Guest
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Adam, There's two ways you can do this; get the correct base plate and refelt it, or take the 3 large holes and and find feet that will fit in them from McMaster-Carr. http://www.mcmaster.com/#push-in-bumpers/=9vw70a Attached Image (viewed 584 times):
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| Posted: Fri Nov 26th, 2010 05:56 pm |
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Kim Frank AFCA Member 
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That sure appears to have had the holes filled in. You can see the flats where the switch mounts, the two other flats where the cover plate mounts, and then the six flats where the holes for the feet should be..... Last edited on Fri Nov 26th, 2010 07:34 pm by Kim Frank |
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| Posted: Fri Nov 26th, 2010 08:11 pm |
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Adam Rohn Guest
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Ron Powell wrote:Adam, There's two ways you can do this; get the correct base plate and refelt it, or take the 3 large holes and and find feet that will fit in them from McMaster-Carr. Thanks alot Ron, I'll do your second suggestion. Since I now know the switch was intended to be mounted beneath the base I'd rather keep it that way. If you remember the base plate I posted a while ago that looked alot larger than the base..That was the plate that came with the fan. Which now makes sense that someone had fabed up that plate to mount the switch too once the screws that screwed the switch to the underside of the base had busted off.
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| Posted: Fri Nov 26th, 2010 10:05 pm |
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Adam Rohn Guest
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Kim Frank wrote:That sure appears to have had the holes filled in. You can see the flats where the switch mounts, the two other flats where the cover plate mounts, and then the six flats where the holes for the feet should be..... Kim, if your talking about those other 3 flat spots, I agree. If I were to drill those back out it would make the 6 spots that Darryl told me there should be. I wonder why they did that?  I'm not gonna take the risk of drilling them all the way through and damage the paint. It sounds easy enough to do since the hole is party drilled all ready but it would be just my luck to screw something simple up. I'll just use this as a "learning experience" and next time I'll know that the base takes 6 feet then make sure I have them all drilled out prior to paint 
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| Posted: Sat Nov 27th, 2010 01:12 am |
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Ron Powell Guest
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Adam, I, shall we say, talked to Butch Reed and he has a AOU stump just like yours with ONLY 3 feet. this model took a base plate just like mine I showed earlier. Butch also said he HAD several like this but that they were sold a while ago. So, DON'T go drill NOTHING! Your rubber feet are 1/4" he says in size. So go McMaster-Carr my friend.
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| Posted: Sat Nov 27th, 2010 01:56 am |
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Adam Rohn Guest
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Ron Powell wrote:Adam, I, shall we say, talked to Butch Reed and he has a AOU stump just like yours with ONLY 3 feet. this model took a base plate just like mine I showed earlier. Butch also said he HAD several like this but that they were sold a while ago. |
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| Posted: Sat Nov 27th, 2010 01:59 am |
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Ron Powell Guest
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Adam, I didn't contact Butch, he contacted me. I've never met him but, he seems like a good man to me. 
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| Posted: Sat Nov 27th, 2010 02:42 am |
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Adam Rohn Guest
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Ron Powell wrote:Adam, I didn't contact Butch, he contacted me. I've never met him but, he seems like a good man to me. Agreed! he does seem like he's a nice guy. He contacted me a while back and sent me the proper gear I needed for my GE's gearbox and not only did he send me the round gear that I needed, he also sent me a new worm gear. The worm gear was in better shape than mine so I actually have 2 fresh gears in there thanks to himLast edited on Sat Nov 27th, 2010 02:44 am by |
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| Posted: Sat Nov 27th, 2010 03:53 am |
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Adam Rohn Guest
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Ron Powell wrote:Adam, I didn't contact Butch, he contacted me. I've never met him but, he seems like a good man to me. I'm getting 9/64 inside diameter, Ron. Can someone please verify that so I'm not ordering the wrong size? I think I did it right though
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| Posted: Sat Nov 27th, 2010 04:09 am |
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Ron Powell Guest
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Adam, What are you measuring? 9/64 is a little over an 1/8" I believe. The holes I see are at least a 1/4". Use a measuring tape instead of that Caliper.
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| Posted: Sat Nov 27th, 2010 04:28 am |
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Adam Rohn Guest
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I'm using my digital calipers
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| Posted: Sat Nov 27th, 2010 04:57 am |
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Adam Rohn Guest
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Ron Powell wrote:Adam, What are you measuring? 9/64 is a little over an 1/8" I believe. The holes I see are at least a 1/4". Use a measuring tape instead of that Caliper. Ron, of course it helps to measure the right hole!  sorry. The RIGHT hole is 7/32
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| Posted: Sat Nov 27th, 2010 03:18 pm |
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Ron Powell Guest
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Adam, That's a 1/16 th short of a 1/4". Get 1/4" so they fit tight enough not to fall out. You can use grommets as I do and cut the top lip off and they'll look very close to the original ones.
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| Posted: Sat Nov 27th, 2010 04:05 pm |
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Ralph Bliss Guest 
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correction, its 1/32 short of 1/4... yes I'm a picky 
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| Posted: Sun Nov 28th, 2010 01:26 am |
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Adam Rohn Guest
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I suck at fractions so I wouldn't have blinked an eye to what Ron said. Thanks Guys!
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| Posted: Sun Nov 28th, 2010 01:58 am |
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Ralph Bliss Guest
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8/32 is equal to 1/4, so 7/32 is 1/32 short of 1/4, its easy.
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| Posted: Sun Nov 28th, 2010 02:06 am |
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Adam Rohn Guest
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Ralph Bliss wrote:8/32 is equal to 1/4, so 7/32 is 1/32 short of 1/4, its easy. Not when you've got a learning disabilty, Ralph. One of the reason I got digital calipers with a fraction function
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| Posted: Sun Nov 28th, 2010 02:08 am |
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Adam Rohn Guest
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Adam Rohn wrote:Ralph Bliss wrote: OH! I gotcha now, Ralph! That was easy
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| Posted: Sun Nov 28th, 2010 03:20 am |
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Ralph Bliss Guest
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| Posted: Sun Nov 28th, 2010 03:42 am |
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Adam Rohn Guest
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Ralph Bliss wrote: Thanks :) I had to re read your post a few times before it dawned on me
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