[SEL] Fairbanks

[Dave Ernst]

No, there is no hint of anything used to fire this engine, not even a bump
on the cam gear.  What I haven't seen before is the fresh air intake is a
3/4" pipe about 14" long with an air regulator device on the end, and about
midway
a copper line tapped into the bottom that looks to be the gas supply line
and naturally no tank.
A friend here seems to think this engine was perhaps oilfield adapted to run
on natural gas or maybe butane. I don't know.
I'll post some pics this afternoon for you to look at.
Thanks
Dave
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Grant Weir" <weirgrant at hotmail.com>
To: <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 1:54 PM
Subject: RE: [SEL] Fairbanks


> >From: "Dave Ernst" <shop at cccomm.net>
> >Subject: [SEL] Fairbanks
> >Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 09:14:46 -0700
> >
> >What year is a Fairbanks Z, 3 hp with a serial number of 33,588?
> >I just acquired it. It has an ignitor, but I don't see any provisions for
a
> >mag. Would it be coil & battery operated?
> >
> >Dave
>
>
> Hi Dave,
>
>    I have two of those engines.  I looked them up and once and found that
FM
> only made that engine from 1917-1919 so I guess that narrows it down a
bit.
>   Both engines have ignitors, but one uses cam gear driven Sumter magneto,
> and the other uses an ignitor bracket mounted Plugoscillator magneto.
> Yours sounds like the Plugoscillator style as those engines do not have
> magneto mounting lugs cast into the base like the other style does.  I
think
> those Plugoscillator mags must have been pretty crappy, because they tend
to
> be hack-sawed off and tapped out for a spark plug more often than not.
Does
> yours have the obligatory farmer-added "hacksaw blade screwed to a chunk
of
> fir" spark coil contact off of the cam gear?  :-)
>
> Here are some parts:
>
> http://www.hitnmiss.com/6.htm
>
> Grant Weir
> Saskatoon, SK.
> Canada
>