[SEL] A few pictures - F-M ZD

paulmaples paulmaples at sbcglobal.net
Sun Feb 19 18:01:20 PST 2006


Larry, really enjoyed these pictures as I have one of these little engines 
setting out in the shop under the workbench that I intend to get to one day 
if the grim reaper don't get me first.

Paul

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Evans" <lfevans at pacbell.net>
To: <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 6:35 PM
Subject: [SEL] A few pictures - F-M ZD


> Hi,
> In late December and early January, Bill Young who lives in Japan was 
> visiting southern California.  He likes to drop by my place when he is in 
> town and surprise me with unexpected little projects.  This time it was 
> the re-assembly of a Fairbanks Morse ZD 1 1/2 hp. engine someone else had 
> taken apart.  This was interesting in that neither of us had worked with 
> one of these before and we had no printed information at all to refer to. 
> Thanks to people I've met on this and other lists I was able to find 
> online information that gave us the important timing information, etc. 
> Take a look at:
> http://www.oldengine.org/members/levans/fmzd/
> to see what we had to work with.  If you have never seen inside one of 
> these you might find it interesting.  We did get it to run.
> 




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