Jon - Don't know, missing battery and the pull-rope looks like it's dry rot, right now just trying to find-out, it's value. My neighbor won't be back until Wednesday night, hopefully he can give some history about it, "like when was it last running". Because it has a metal enclosing everything on the inside is in fairly good shape. The gas tank still has about a 1/4 tank of fuel, I'm sure that's not usable. I'll pull the plugs latter today. I wouldn't mind having this as a backup electrical supply. I already have two small Honda's, that basically can give me lights and run a TV, but not big enough to run the refrigerator. This Onan, could easily keep the beer cold and lights too! Just not into any extra projects right now.
Found a really interesting web forum called "Smokstak" - A antique engine forum, covers a lot of territory! Steam, gasoline and diesel engines. Also cars, trucks, motorcycles, tractors, generators, pumps and industrial machines. One of the other things I found in this pile of "junk", was a old John Bean two piston pump. I think this will have some value to the right collector of old machines. These pumps were used in everything from "orchard sprayers" to firetrucks. The John Bean Company, became the FMC Corporation, all from his invention of this pump.
Anyway looking for information about this pump, I found "Smokstack", it told everything about the pump. Then started checking out other sections of this forum, found the generator section. A great resource for all things "old" related to machines. Was able to download the operating and maintenance manuals for the generator.
Highly recommend this forum to all SMF members wanting info on old machines.
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