[SEL] Fairbanks

[Richard Fink Sr]

DAVE you will never get it running with that small a hammer. [not enough 
threat]
R Fink
PA



At 03:49 PM 8/11/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>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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