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Louise Saint-Pierre
Member
Username: muse
Post Number: 7
Registered: 03-2015
| | Posted on Monday, March 09, 2015 - 10:08 am: | 
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Another museum piece. Some says it is a pump...
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Roger DiRuscio
Senior Member
Username: solarrog
Post Number: 590
Registered: 03-2002
| | Posted on Monday, March 09, 2015 - 11:25 am: |
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Looks like a K2 Waterman to me |
Searcher
Senior Member
Username: searcher
Post Number: 628
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Monday, March 09, 2015 - 11:26 am: |
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This is a Canadian Fairbacks Morse forest fire pump. Put K2 into the search box and you will come up with quite a bit if inforamtion. |
Louise Saint-Pierre
Member
Username: muse
Post Number: 8
Registered: 03-2015
| | Posted on Monday, March 09, 2015 - 11:45 am: |
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How do you use it on a boat ?  . How come is it part of our collection (maritime museum...)? I checked the Fairbanks-Morse. It looks like it... |
Bruce Hall
Senior Member
Username: bruce
Post Number: 482
Registered: 07-2002
| | Posted on Monday, March 09, 2015 - 12:05 pm: |
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It's used when the boat catches fire.. |
Louise Saint-Pierre
Member
Username: muse
Post Number: 9
Registered: 03-2015
| | Posted on Monday, March 09, 2015 - 12:26 pm: |
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Most of those engines were given to the museum a long time ago without any infos . They have been in the storerooms for quite a while. We need experts like you to identify them. Thanks a lot.
Are you sure it is a fire pump?  |
Bruce Goss
Member
Username: bruce_g
Post Number: 12
Registered: 12-2009
| | Posted on Monday, March 09, 2015 - 12:44 pm: |
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Yes it is a firepump. It should have Fairbanks on it somewhere |
Roger DiRuscio
Senior Member
Username: solarrog
Post Number: 591
Registered: 03-2002
| | Posted on Monday, March 09, 2015 - 05:39 pm: |
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These were also used as portable forest fire pumps.
I have had a couple over the years. It looks like your fuel tank has been changed from the rectangle ones I had |
Roger DiRuscio
Senior Member
Username: solarrog
Post Number: 592
Registered: 03-2002
| | Posted on Monday, March 09, 2015 - 05:40 pm: |
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Look on the frame lower right for the fair Banks Morse tag |
Louise Saint-Pierre
Member
Username: muse
Post Number: 10
Registered: 03-2015
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 10, 2015 - 08:33 am: |
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Thank you all for your help. |
miro forest
Senior Member
Username: miro
Post Number: 805
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 13, 2015 - 09:48 pm: |
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Here is an installation in a boat
http://windsorboatworks.com/new%20dispro/new%20dispro5.htm
There are several other pictures on a previous page
In addition, you can see one of these boats in action here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCpl-Vkjo3c
miro |
Louise Saint-Pierre
Member
Username: muse
Post Number: 11
Registered: 03-2015
| | Posted on Saturday, March 14, 2015 - 09:49 am: |
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Miro,
I saw the web site. I am a bit confused...Others said it is a fire pump, you say it is a marine engine ?(I would like it!). |
Roger DiRuscio
Senior Member
Username: solarrog
Post Number: 593
Registered: 03-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, March 14, 2015 - 10:42 am: |
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There is more then one use for these engines, I have also seen them on generators. Yours is a fire pumper |
Searcher
Senior Member
Username: searcher
Post Number: 629
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, March 14, 2015 - 01:30 pm: |
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Here are two photos of my Fairbanks,Morse Forest Fire Pumping Outfit. One indicates the location of the identifying tag on the base, the other a closeup of the tag. You probably have a similar tag somewhere on your pump setup,maybe on the opposite side or perhaps it was lost. There should be four small screw holes where the tag was attached.
Your pumper is set on a base that is a little different than mine but not significantly so. I have a magneto on the exhaust side, your magneto may be on the opposite side, your base is a little taller. (The pump on mine is missing.)
It looks like the pump on yours is a bronze/brass gear pump used for high pressure, i.e., it would pump water a long distance through a fire hose and still have enough oomph left to provide a strong spray at the business end. The gear pumps on these are often missing for good reason. In a hurry to set one of these up in a stream or pond during a forest fire, sometimes the fine screen on the water supply intake hose was forgotten or lost. These gear pumps will not tolerate even fine sand for very long before the gears are too chewed up to provide the needed water pressure.
The gear pumps are very hard to find in usable condition (in any condition for that matter). At one point in my life, not being able to find a suitable gear pump, I thought I would adapt mine into a marine engine. It simply requires adding a timer, a small plunger or gear type water pump as used on most small marine engines, a marine type coupling for a prop, a base suitable for bolting to the bottom of a boat, and a few other doodads. As Roger said, these little engines have multiple uses including marine engines. 
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Louise Saint-Pierre
Member
Username: muse
Post Number: 12
Registered: 03-2015
| | Posted on Saturday, March 14, 2015 - 03:25 pm: |
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Nice! Unfortunately, there is no tag, no identification at all on ours.Thanks for the info. |
