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Small Fairbanks Combustion Engines

Small Fairbanks Combustion Engines

Small Fairbanks Combustion Engines

(OP)
Occasionally a customer wishes to install a small Fairbanks Morse combustion engine on our product and they want to know which motor mount they need to use. As you may already be aware, any small FM combustion engine a customer is wishing to use is almost assuredly used because FM quit mfg the small engines 30 years or so ago. We have contacted FM for bolt settings and their response is they have not produced small engines for so long the bolt setting diagrams for the small engines are no longer available. So far all my searching for long lost copies have turned up nothing dependable. The latest request is for a FM209. I would greatly appreciate any direction anybody may wish to offer about where to look for old catalogs, diagrams, etc that may have FM engine bolt setting information. Thanks, K.

RE: Small Fairbanks Combustion Engines

There's an inconvenient thing out there called "product obsolescence."  Sometimes, a product simply cannot be supported forever.  A couple of realistic, practical solutions come to mind:
(1)  Your customer gets a reality check and upgrades his equipement with new stuff.
(2)  Your company charges outrageously exhorbitant prices for chasing this thing down for lazy customers.  Usually when this happens, the customer reverts to (1) above.

TygerDawg
Blue Technik LLC
Virtuoso Robotics Engineering
www.bluetechnik.com

RE: Small Fairbanks Combustion Engines

Seriouly, look for some antique engine enthusiasts, they may be able to help with information or sources.

RE: Small Fairbanks Combustion Engines

(OP)
Thanks TygerDawg & TheBlacksmith, appreciate your taking time to consider and respond to my post. Yes, we are quite familiar with "product obsolescence." Being involved in providing equipment to stripper production in the Oil Field, we butt up against it often. The idea of looking for antique engine enthusiasts is a direction I never considered. Thanks. Appreciate the help. K.

RE: Small Fairbanks Combustion Engines

Just on my mind, the antique engine show is coming up in June at Chippokes Plantation in Virgina.  Some of those restored engines they are running are probably better than when they were new.

RE: Small Fairbanks Combustion Engines

Here is a link to an old engine group just up the road from me.
They do not have too much on Fairbanks Morse.
But they may know people who do.

http://www.oldengine.org/members/diesel/front.htm

B.E.

The good engineer does not need to memorize every formula; he just needs to know where he can find them when he needs them.  Old professor

RE: Small Fairbanks Combustion Engines

(OP)
Thanks berkshire. Appreciate the link. K.

RE: Small Fairbanks Combustion Engines

I would give W W Williams a call and see if they can help you.   They may not have your specific model ut have some with an identical footprint.
As posted above checkout the antique engine people, especially those in West Texas.
Also there is someone in India or Pakistan makeing replica of the FM engines,saw it on TV.
I think the old Audel books a section on the FM Engines.

http://www.wwwilliams.com/distribution_fairbanks.cfm

http://www.enginads.com/bizcards.shtml   

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