OHLECTRIC 5PCS 16 ½ Inches Fan Blades - Fan Replacement Blades For 42-inch Ceiling Fan - Substitution for Broken Blades - High-Performance Ceiling Fan Blades - Indoor Use, Oak/Walnut - OL-40489

Con: Slightly expensive. Pro: Every thing else about these blades. Can be painted. Solid plastic, will not droop. Withstands mild impacts without damage, like toys and broom handles. Can wash off with water. I painted two sets of these yellow and installed on my mothers two white porch fans to replace the old severely drooping fiber board blades. Her fans look like two big daisy flowers and work perfectly. She loves it. I have bought these blades before in white also, these blades are a must for outdoors, shop or garage environments. Or indoors fans too if you want to replace the old blades for any reason.*Other negative reviews list blade hole alignment mismatch, or question the material for outdoor use. This listing has ABS plastic 52 inch fan blades and other blades (42") that are wood composite, not fit for outdoor use in my opinion. Moisture and humidity will damage wood composites, even if painted, I tried it. All the blades I have purchased are white or black ABS plastic for 52" fans and the holes have matched up. Each blade from 52" fan is roughly 20 inches long. If the holes don't align to your particular fan blade bracket, take off an old blade, lay it on top of the new blade and align so both blades edges are even and the center screw hole lines up on both blades, then drill through the old blade holes into the new blade to make perfectly matching holes. The 42" fans use smaller blades with closer grouped holes than the 52" fans. Not to say you can't put the bigger ABS blades on, just drill the holes to match as mentioned above. Double check product discription, wood or ABS, and measure your old fan blade to get the correct blades.

Box indicates these ceiling fan blades are a Westinghouse product. Universal fit for most.

This is a good product, but don't expect it to fit every fan, In fact, it won't fit most fans. You'll have to drill new holes. The trick is to go with the center hole closest to the fan body. Find the drill size of the old fan blade holes and re-drill the new fan blade center hole to match. and get one of the old fan blade screws and screw the two blades together using the center hole. Center the new fan blade in the center of the old one. Use small clamps to clamp it together if necessary. Ensure that the old fan blade is on top of the new one. Use the old holes in old fan blade as a template to guide you where to drill the holes. Put it on a sturdy table, if necessary. This worked for me. The first ones were the most difficult. I had to take the fan, light kit assembly apart to make this easier. I tried without doing that first but it was more difficult that way, The new fan blades were a little smaller than my hunter fan blades but it is a small room so it was better actually.

I purchased some new brackets and blades from Amazon ensuring all of the hole spacings would be compatible. Works perfectly! My old brackets and blades were wider, these new blades are not as wide but they’re longer. Turned my 16” blades into 21” blades. I have no idea what brand my fan is as they were in the house when I moved in. I purchased 3 fan blade sets. I broke 1 fan the very first day I moved in 4 years ago and have never used it. Procrastination! After breaking a 2nd different fan I needed a way to fix both and match a 3rd fan in the same room. These blades work well with the correct brackets also available on Amazon. These blades have a flat edge vs OEM rounded edge. The problem with broken fan blades isn’t the blades it’s the bracket. Finding the right dimensions for my hole spacing took a while. If you measure correctly you’ll have confidence you got the right blades and brackets before they arrive. Brackets sold separately.

Purchased two of these fan replacements blades for my outside patio fans. Installed them in 2021. We live in South West Florida and now all the plastic blades have warped down from our Florida heat. I do not recommend these for hot climates. Worked fine till summer hit and temperature was in the 90’s.

Living in the Gulf South, summers are brutally hot and humid. While the best room in the house can be the front porch, ceiling fans are necessary much of the year but so many fans are sold with blades almost made of cardboard. After a season or two, the start to "wilt" and that's downright unattractive.I gave up trying to match the manufacturer blades with something more robust and figured I could re-drill these - getting two sets for two fans.It took just a little patience and effort to make them fit my application, starting with white epoxy resin to fill the original holes. Then, using the single inner hole as a guide, I drilled that and used a bolt of the right size to secure the old blade to a new one and two spring clamps to secure them side-to-side. Turns out, I needed drill bits for between-sizes and ended up one of my step-bits with longer steps was absolutely the perfect, necessary tool to bore out the perfect, wider holes necessary for a perfect fit.New installation is clean; one fan started up perfectly balanced as soon as they were installed. The second fan balanced with one quarter taped to the back of a single blade.I'm super pleased; my wife, however, can't believe what a great upgrade the clean white plastic is to what was there before. Good airflow. Excellent purchase!

diameter of hole was to small

We installed a ceiling fan in our patio 6-years ago. The original fan blades are starting to sag from weather changes. This composite material is more solid and will can withstand weather effects.