Add Light to Crest 8600 Ceiling Fan

0:00 we're going to install a light into this fan this is the light that we're going to use it's not in the best of conditions so it's not a perfect match but it'll work um these are not the shades I wanted I couldn't find the ones I wanted these will look nice uh I got some extra screws here that we'll put in

0:57 this is all kind of messed up here I think we're going to open this up and figure out what's going on with this H this is just a cheap piece of junk I was expecting nuts in there we could tighten but uh nope this is just forever going to be loose oh well it's not a big deal it's not a not a part that moves or

1:48 anything I guess I'm going to have to try to get some New Old Stock light kits so you know to match these these uh new in- the box fans he

2:39 okay let's get the cap off of here okay there's a piece of wire in there so what we're going to do here

3:25 is a delicate process this nut is going to live inside the housing I'm not going to put that somewhere else cuz it'll just get lost so we're going to put this on here and we're not going to screw it on all the way we're going to screw it very gently on just partially make sure that this does not go down too [Music] far that's it no more than that the reason being is because if you put this down all the way you're going to scratch up the unit there and it's not going to look nice if you use it without a light yes we'll see a little Gap here

4:12 that's not perfect either but I'd rather that than ruin the piece so put this on there and I'm going to back this out until it becomes tight so it's oh this is all bent on there what the heck so it's tight on there now um what's actually spinning is the stupid it's spinning on the light kit not the connector

4:57 there all right this light is all sorts of cheap and messed up this is what the problem is right here this is loose oh this whole thing is just spinning on there the shaft is spinning too there we go now this is tight

5:50 okay these caps are irreplaceable at this point as are these nuts so we have to be very careful I'm working with this stuff to not damage it

6:39 okay so now there's no possibility or no likelihood I guess of the thing getting damaged it's very sturdy everything is copacetic here um these connections are going to be a little tricky to make because there's not a lot of slack here this is not in good shape I hate to lose any more slack but it's going to be a lot of power going through here we need a good connection that's not a good connection okay

7:38 all right so we're going to take that and stick that in there that's going to stay in there for later on one two three screws the [Music] driver now this is pretty lightweight it can hang on this for a minute it's not going to damage anything actually there's more slack here than I thought

8:47 this one's actually coming out a bit let's tighten that up okay it's definitely a shame to pair such a dirty junky light with a a brand new fan like this this doesn't look

9:41 right but I can only pair it with what I have

10:38 why is this not going in chair looks like it should be that's going to kind of interfere with

11:24 that which is not ideal but we're not going to be using the chain control so it doesn't really matter okay for light bulbs we're going to use 11 watt incandescent I didn't realize this is all screwed up too

12:18 man this like it's falling apart you actually really can't even tell that that Gap is there let make sure nothing catastrophic happened okay good everything's still working I

13:04 might bump this up to 40 watt um bulbs depending on how the brightness looks seems a little bit on the dim side H this is a three-way light and these could also uh use a trip through the dishwasher oh for heaven's sakes

13:51 [Applause] this is on a dimmer in here so um there's no reason that I not to go with a brighter bulb because I can always tone it back down all right I'll change it these are not quite right enough in this application I don't think usually these are bright enough for for fans I think in this case I want like a 15 or a 25

14:42 even I use these in the fans when there's no dimmer but in here we have a dimmer so we can go with something brighter to start and just tone it down a little bit all right let's see what we got here um I guess we'll just go with basic 60s I should go get some more cin fan bulbs probably but I'm not going to do that at this hour

15:29 uh H this would be interesting

16:34 I don't think this will look right but it's worth a shot no I don't think that's going to look right nah it doesn't look right

17:21 yeah that's probably what I want 25 25 watts um great 15 that's probably a little bit too low what is this 40

18:25 Watts I guess we'll just do these these are 43 Watts next time I'm at store I'll pick up some more of the 40 wat s fan bulbs they're a little bit smaller so they kind of would be a better fit anyways

19:23 incandescent incandescent that's way too bright but it doesn't matter because we can come here and tone it down yeah that's good okay we'll do that that [Music] works incandescent that sucks it's still messed up [Music]

20:50 yeah I need the smaller bulbs in here those protrude too much for my preference that one buzzes a little bit huh it's got to do with the positioning of the filament that's interesting makes sense huh think that's something

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22:54 [Applause] sh wow now that's a ceiling fan that's way too Bri