Used Pak Fan fans & air coolers in Islamabad & Rawalpindi
Is a used Pak Fan fans & air cooler worth buying?
Pak Fan is one of the older Gujrat fan makers, selling ceiling fans as its volume product alongside pedestal, bracket and exhaust models. Because Gujrat's manufacturers build to similar patterns and use similar names, the first job on a used one is establishing which company actually made it: the rating plate, not the badge, is where that is written down.
Made or assembled in Pakistan
Spares are widely stocked locally and most technicians in the twin cities have worked on these, so common faults are usually economic to repair.
Motor work on a Pak Fan — rewinding, bushes, bearings, capacitors, regulators — is ordinary trade in the Rawalpindi electrical markets and none of it depends on the brand. The brand-specific parts are the pressed and moulded ones, and because Gujrat makers do not share fixing patterns, a blade set or canopy has to be matched against the fan itself or ordered through a shop that deals in Pak Fan.
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Checking a used Pak Fan fans & air cooler
These are specific to Pak Fan. The general fans & air coolers checks apply too and are on the fans & air coolers page.
Read the whole plate
The plate should carry the manufacturer's full name and town alongside the sweep and the input watts. On Gujrat-built fans that plate is the fan's only identity, and a decal saying Pak Fan tells you nothing a repainter could not have added afterwards.
Match body parts physically
Blade sets, canopies and guards from other Gujrat brands often look interchangeable and frequently are not, because fixing patterns and blade pitch differ between makers. Carry the old part or the fan itself to the shop rather than asking for a part by brand name.
Start it on speed one
A used induction fan shows its condition at the lowest speed: humming without turning, or needing a push to start, points at the capacitor first and a tired winding second. The capacitor is a generic part and the winding is a workshop job, so find out which before agreeing anything.
Check hanger and bushes
On ceiling models, look at the hook, the down-rod and the rubber bushes in the shackle. Perished bushes pass motor vibration straight into the slab and get mistaken for a bearing fault, and a fan sold without its original down-rod and canopy is an incomplete fan.
What Pak Fan fans & air coolers are worth
- A legible manufacturer's plate is worth real money on these, because it is the difference between a specified fan and an anonymous Gujrat one, and repainting usually destroys it.
- Body completeness holds the grade, since blade sets, canopies, guards and down-rods do not cross between Gujrat makers and are harder to solve than a dead capacitor.
- Motor faults cost less than they look, because rewinding, bushes and capacitors are ordinary local work, so a complete Pak Fan that runs badly is still worth more than an incomplete one that runs well.
General fans & air coolers checks
These apply whatever the badge on the front says — the fans & air coolers page covers them in full.
Spin the blades by hand
With the power off, turn the blades. A healthy fan coasts several turns and stops smoothly. A gritty feel, a rumble or a rotor that drags means dry or worn bushes, and a fan run in that state will cook its winding within a season.
Feel the motor housing
Run it on full for fifteen to twenty minutes, then put a hand on the housing. Warm is normal. Too hot to hold, or a smell like burnt varnish, means the winding is going. That smell never clears, and rewinding a domestic fan seldom repays what it costs.
Watch for wobble
Start a ceiling fan and watch the canopy. Wobble usually comes from a bent blade arm, mismatched blades or a loose down-rod rather than from the motor. Sight along each blade for a bend and check the mounting holes in the arms for elongation, which is what makes a fan impossible to balance afterwards.
Test the start
A fan that hums but only turns once you nudge a blade has a weak capacitor. It is an inexpensive part, but it should be found before money changes hands. Step through every regulator position too: a dead speed points at the regulator or a broken winding tap rather than at the capacitor.
Watch the cooler pads wet
Fill an air cooler's tank, switch the pump on and look at the top of the pads. Water should spread across the whole width within a minute. Dry stripes mean a blocked distributor pipe or a weak pump. Honeycomb pads that have collapsed or gone crusty with salt need replacing before the machine will cool at all.
Press the cooler tank
Push the sides of the water tank and inspect the drain plug and base corners. Plastic that has stood in the sun goes chalky and brittle, and hairline cracks there open up as soon as the tank is full. While you are there, spin the blower wheel by hand for bearing noise and work the swing louvre through its travel.
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