Further, but unneeded proof that the only difference between men and boys is the size and price of their toys.
1936 Fairbanks Morse Model 32D
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I would love to have my computer at work make this sound. Maybe early Monday morning when very few people will be there, I will unplug the headphones and play this.
philr
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A friend of my sister used to have a Fairbanks Morse Gibson electric range with push button burner switches that I repaired many years ago.
I didn't know they used to make engines...
After looking for images on Google, I didn't find a single Fairbanks Morse appliance. So I guess they're better known for making engines than for making appliances!
Anybody has information on Fairbanks Morse ranges?
I didn't know they used to make engines...
After looking for images on Google, I didn't find a single Fairbanks Morse appliance. So I guess they're better known for making engines than for making appliances!
Anybody has information on Fairbanks Morse ranges?
I've seen this video before, just love this kind of stuff. Other faves on Youtube include old radial aircraft engines and big diesels like the 12v Detroits, plus of course some select car engines.
I grew up around lots of these enngines. Were used in the oil fields for the pumps. Those things ran off the natural gos fromt the well head to pump the oil from down deep. Some of these would have cables form the enngine house leading across the ground to 10 to 20 well jacks. They also used this to run the pipeline booster pumps. Everything anymore is electric motors. I can close my eyes and still hear the waa waa of the jacks pushing the rods down then up to pump the oil. Here is a link to the different sounds. The 3rd from last is the diesel fairbanks morse engine running it.
Here is one running a deep oil wellpump in Wyoming. Listen how is goes from one to more pistons running. What power with the big flywhells. The weights on the back of the pump equal the weight of the rod going down to the bottom of the well.
Engines,ENGINES-so cool-glad some of these classics are still at work-even though the first Fairbanks morse waqs in a display-still working none the same.Several years ago-before he retired-an employee here used to know a man in Pennsylvania that serviced the "Hit-Miss" engines on well pumps-even showed John how to start one of these engines by "jumping the flywheel" dangerous-but got the motor started.You had to be sure to jump OFF and away from the flywheel when the engine fired.
At some of the oversaes transmitter sites-They use Caterpillar,Fairbanks Morse and Worthington deisels to power the sites.Gensets that can be 4.5MW.At this site I am at they have a "blown" Chicago Pneumatic genset.Only seen it run once.We all had to know how to start it.It has been replaced by a "Cat" genset-1.8Mw.
At some of the oversaes transmitter sites-They use Caterpillar,Fairbanks Morse and Worthington deisels to power the sites.Gensets that can be 4.5MW.At this site I am at they have a "blown" Chicago Pneumatic genset.Only seen it run once.We all had to know how to start it.It has been replaced by a "Cat" genset-1.8Mw.
Oh yes-for that first Fairbanks-Morse motor shown-have it running for the country band to play to-would be interesting-they were playing quite a few songs based on the rythem of a John Deere "Johnny-Popper" tractor-sort of sounded like that FM engine.Was on YouTube.
frontaloadotmy
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My Pa has
a couple of Fairbanks-Morse 1 lungers ; as they were called. I don't remember if he ever got the larger one running. The smaller
one, iirc, is a 5hp. We used it to drive an eliptical weight gold mill at our claim in Sierra County Ca. I think it was in '66 - '67 , maybe
'68. Noisey , but plenty of power! I think F - M must have manufactured many turn of the century items. I remember seeing a real
fancy step on scale in a collectibles shop in San Francisco back in the late eighties. It was dirt cheap; I shoulda bought it!
a couple of Fairbanks-Morse 1 lungers ; as they were called. I don't remember if he ever got the larger one running. The smaller
one, iirc, is a 5hp. We used it to drive an eliptical weight gold mill at our claim in Sierra County Ca. I think it was in '66 - '67 , maybe
'68. Noisey , but plenty of power! I think F - M must have manufactured many turn of the century items. I remember seeing a real
fancy step on scale in a collectibles shop in San Francisco back in the late eighties. It was dirt cheap; I shoulda bought it!
philr
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Nobody has info on their appliances?
Here's one link I found.
Here's one link I found.
philr
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Here's another link:
I wish I could find a picture of range like the one I repaired.
I wish I could find a picture of range like the one I repaired.
philr
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They seemed to have a complete line of appliances, radios and TVs, vacuum cleaners and lawn-mowers.
I'd be curious to see their washer and dryers too!
I'd be curious to see their washer and dryers too!
philr
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The automatics look similar to Blackstones in the control panel area.
Part of the fortune from Fairbanks Morse went into the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art in Winter Park, FL which has the world's most comprehensive collection of the works of Louis Comfort Tiffany. Winter Park is just outside of Orlando and is the home of Rollins College. The chapel designed for the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, illuminated by one of the most skillful and beautiful applications of programmed lighting, is, by itself, worth the price of admission.
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