[Healeys] Texas Kooler

[BJ8 Healeys]

China.

If the blades look like the original Healey fan, but there are more of them,
I bought one from Moss Motors in 1995 and 9 months and 2,500 miles later it
threw a blade (two blades were missing when I removed it).  My materials lab
at work determined that the blades broke because of fatigue.  Moss replaced
it with an identical fan, but issued a bulletin a short time later directing
everyone who bought one to return it for a different style fan and a gift
certificate for $125.  
When I removed the second fan, it had paint chips in the roots of the
blades, indicating that they were going to be fatiguing and cracking soon in
the same place as the original.

If you have a similar fan, if I were you I'd keep a close watch on it for
paint chips in the blade roots.

Steve Byers
HBJ8L/36666
BJ8 Registry
Havelock, NC  USA

-----Original Message-----
From: healeys-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Tom Felts
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 9:45 AM
To: Awgertoo at aol.com; healeys at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Texas Kooler

Wish I knew who made it, but about 10 years ago I bought a 6 bladed all
metal fan from a show vendor.  It transformed the temp problem to one where
over temp is never a problem---and--no problems with bending, separating or
noise.

Anyone have any idea who makes all-metal 6 bladed ones?

tom