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Ed & Bert
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| | Posted on Tuesday, October 15, 2013 - 03:40 pm: | 
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We have an old engine as follows: Fairbanks Morse Model 37 F 16 HP 1200 RPM 300 Serial # 968487 .
It is a very large (30/40 tons) 6 cyl diesel with a single cyl compressor on the front.
It was designed in 1937 and has a 16 inch bore with a 20 inch stroke. It is a marine engine and runs with both direction rotation.
This engine is located near Vancouver BC Canada in a boat on the Fraser River.
It was running well 20 or so years ago but as the boat sat unattended metal thieves took the copper and stainless tubing, but the main parts are all there still.
For more information on engines like this go to http://www.oldtacomamarine.com/index.shtml and click on Fairbanks Morse
Our question is; can we find someone that would want to have it to restore or should we sell it for scrap?
Please be so kind as to attempt to save this special engine. Email us of your interest or any contacts you may have or better still pass this to anyone that could have an interest.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give us Bert & Ed |
miro
Senior Member
Username: miro
Post Number: 724
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Friday, October 25, 2013 - 08:18 pm: |
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It will be a long and slow process to find some one with the resources to restore the engine.
It very likely can not be put back into a service vessel since it emits tons of green house gases and other worse stuff because it is a slow turning 2 cycle engine. It might work as a static display at a roadhouse, or some form of club or museum.
To restore it to operating condition is a very large task, especially when there is little or no documentation , parts diagrams, specs etc etc with the engine.
The rigging and hoisting alone is a large pile of cash.
But , let's face it , there are folks who might just want to undertake the project so please don't scrap it just yet.
A comprehensive picture gallery wold help a lot.
miro |
rbprice
Senior Member
Username: rbprice
Post Number: 443
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 30, 2013 - 08:19 am: |
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And yours is not the only one like this. There is a 1931 era F-M six cylinder, 14 in. bore, that was removed from a ferry boat that plys the waters of Lake Champlain. It too is in need of a new home to avoid being turned in Chinese re-bar. It is more than complete in that it has a very large stock of spare parts.
But as Miro points out, it is a US$50,000 project to move it and put it on a concrete foundation with a roof over its head. And one would need U.S. EPA permission to run it even as a static display. |
robert
Senior Member
Username: robert
Post Number: 619
Registered: 07-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 30, 2013 - 10:28 am: |
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This is the engine from the tug LaPointe/Kingsway? I've often wondered what happened to her; how is the restoration/conversion coming along? |
miro
Senior Member
Username: miro
Post Number: 727
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 30, 2013 - 02:34 pm: |
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Robert - nope.
It is the ferry's engine. Originally a ferry in Virginia that was moved to Lake Champlain in the late 1950's |
robert
Senior Member
Username: robert
Post Number: 621
Registered: 07-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 30, 2013 - 06:28 pm: |
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Miro,
I mean the one referenced in the first post above: "This engine is located near Vancouver BC Canada in a boat on the Fraser River." The only 1200hp Fairbanks from the late 30s around Vancouver would be the one in the LaPointe/Kingsway. Interesting vesssel built in the UK as a North Sea trawler and the converted to a tug, she worked the BC coast for many years.
http://ts4.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4657953363132695&pid=15.1&H=83&W=160
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8392/8568056876_7bfd6b8356_z.jpg |
