Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Leslie-Locke (Evergo) Scottsdale 48" ceiling fan in brown with antique brass accents, shown using a generic 4 speed/dimmer combo control. This is another fan that I found in the trash during Cleanup Week 2025. That's right, not a remake video, and it's the third of these I have in my collection now. Also, the debut of my newly reconstructed Leslie-Locke logo, as I've never had a logo to use for L-L videos before. It's not a perfect replica, but it's better than nothing! Normally with this type of spinner, I'm less happy when a light is installed and the nut is missing, but this one has a genuine Leslie-Locke branded fitter and my other two have the nut, so it's almost like having another variant on hand, and nice to have the option without having to reformat one of the others. There's a bit of backstory with this one. It was installed just inside the entryway of a small business located inside an old house literally in the middle of a residential street. A "you have to know it's there" kind of place. I'd spotted it more than a decade ago when my grandparents were living in a retirement facility nearby. I've got places like this where I know things are installed mapped on my route every year during Cleanup Week, and will often drive by them several times throughout to make sure I don't miss anything. The morning I picked this up, it was not specifically on my route. I'd gotten a very early start to beat the trash trucks in another area, and was heading toward home to take a short break from driving. I ended up near the area trying to avoid rush hour traffic, so at the last second decided I could just take that street to cut over. And there it was on the curb, with the globe and original choke control wrapped to it. At first I was somewhat disappointed because it was sitting on the blades and they looked absolutely done for. They're so thin and flimsy, I thought they had to be completely broken upon pulling up, but I'm shocked at how resilient they were. There's resulting warpage which causes some hard-to-resolve wobble, but I'm just lucky they're in one piece. It cleaned up decently, a bit rough in a couple spots finish-wise, but I think it'd been sitting somewhere outdoors for a bit before making it to the curb, so again, not bad at all. Bearings were very rough getting going, they've still got a rumble but run much better than initially expected. It's pretty slow on the low speed here and verges on stalling if it doesn't get a boost, since they're a bit stiff. Unfortunately the original control is pretty rough, they tend to be since they're so fragile, but I'll of course keep it in my arsenal. Probably could've used it here and gotten half decent speeds, but I didn't realize the bearings were that problematic till I had it up. I don't think this is the glass that would've actually gone with it. The model indicates the fitter with round globe, and this globe appears to be older than the fan/is a bit of a tight fit. I'd guess maybe it came from a previous light fixture in the location where the fan was installed. It was a small entry area, so a single schoolhouse pendant would check out. I just used it since it had been paired with the fan already for all this time and managed to survive getting home with me. This was a long one to read, but I had to get the story in here because the consistency really pays off in cases like this, no matter how long it takes.
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Leslie-Locke (Evergo) Scottsdale 48" ceiling fan in brown with antique brass accents, shown using a generic 4 speed/dimmer combo control. This is another fan that I found in the trash during Cleanup Week 2025. That's right, not a remake video, and it's the third of these I have in my collection now. Also, the debut of my newly reconstructed Leslie-Locke logo, as I've never had a logo to use for L-L videos before. It's not a perfect replica, but it's better than nothing! Normally with this type of spinner, I'm less happy when a light is installed and the nut is missing, but this one has a genuine Leslie-Locke branded fitter and my other two have the nut, so it's almost like having another variant on hand, and nice to have the option without having to reformat one of the others. There's a bit of backstory with this one. It was installed just inside the entryway of a small business located inside an old house literally in the middle of a residential street. A "you have to know it's there" kind of place. I'd spotted it more than a decade ago when my grandparents were living in a retirement facility nearby. I've got places like this where I know things are installed mapped on my route every year during Cleanup Week, and will often drive by them several times throughout to make sure I don't miss anything. The morning I picked this up, it was not specifically on my route. I'd gotten a very early start to beat the trash trucks in another area, and was heading toward home to take a short break from driving. I ended up near the area trying to avoid rush hour traffic, so at the last second decided I could just take that street to cut over. And there it was on the curb, with the globe and original choke control wrapped to it. At first I was somewhat disappointed because it was sitting on the blades and they looked absolutely done for. They're so thin and flimsy, I thought they had to be completely broken upon pulling up, but I'm shocked at how resilient they were. There's resulting warpage which causes some hard-to-resolve wobble, but I'm just lucky they're in one piece. It cleaned up decently, a bit rough in a couple spots finish-wise, but I think it'd been sitting somewhere outdoors for a bit before making it to the curb, so again, not bad at all. Bearings were very rough getting going, they've still got a rumble but run much better than initially expected. It's pretty slow on the low speed here and verges on stalling if it doesn't get a boost, since they're a bit stiff. Unfortunately the original control is pretty rough, they tend to be since they're so fragile, but I'll of course keep it in my arsenal. Probably could've used it here and gotten half decent speeds, but I didn't realize the bearings were that problematic till I had it up. I don't think this is the glass that would've actually gone with it. The model indicates the fitter with round globe, and this globe appears to be older than the fan/is a bit of a tight fit. I'd guess maybe it came from a previous light fixture in the location where the fan was installed. It was a small entry area, so a single schoolhouse pendant would check out. I just used it since it had been paired with the fan already for all this time and managed to survive getting home with me. This was a long one to read, but I had to get the story in here because the consistency really pays off in cases like this, no matter how long it takes.
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