[SEL] Fairbanks

[Glenn A Karch]

Dave,

That is a Waterloo built engine - not FM.  That pipe is part of the fuel
mixer and it should hang down vertically.  That on the end is the priming
cup and choke fitting.  That engine is battery and coil - no mag involved.
It is missing the right angle check valcve and the right angle fuel
adjusting valve.

Glenn

Glenn Karch
Haubstadt, IN, USA
Hercules Historian
----- 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 5:49 PM
Subject: Re: [SEL] Fairbanks


> 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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