[SEL] Fairbanks

[Dave Ernst]

Here's the pics

http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=3009545&a=31365971&f=0

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Ernst" <shop at cccomm.net>
To: "The SEL email discussion list" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 3:17 PM
Subject: Re: [SEL] Fairbanks


> 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
> >
>
>
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