Picked this generator up tonight, a neighbor from down the street, stopped by my shop last week, Asked you want some more "Junk



I was already busy working on a clothes dryer that night, so told him it would be a couple of days before I would have time to pick it up. He told me he would be going out of town in the morning and be gone for a week. He gave me his back gate key, told me "I have a big pile just inside the gate". I asked will it fit in my pickup? With two trips it will, I cleaned out a lot of stuff from my shop so there's a big pile! I waited until it was almost dark today (big mistake), he's only five house away from me. I took my pickup at first, opened the gate, took a double take, more like four pickup loads. First thing I spot was this generator, tried to move it, no way was I going to get it in the pickup (4 or 5 hundred pounds easy). So I filled my pickup with as much as I could, took the pickup back to my house. Had my GF take me to my companies yard get a 14' stake bed with a lift, big steel cart and blocking material, completely dark now! Took me another three hours loading the stake bed, about half of that loading generator.

I'm sure this generator is a "better than scrap" item.

I know nothing about this generator, hoping some of you can give me some input to make the most of my newest found in a pile of "Junk". This is what little info I have so far. A Onan "Vac-Flow Cooling" gasoline powered generator. Model CCK-3RV/1044 J, S/N 45C823707. Power info: 5 KW, 120/240 Volt, 20.7 Amps, 60 cycles, 1 Phase motor. Don't have much info on the gasoline engine, 2 cylinder 1800 RPM's. There is a tank for the gas and one for the oil, can be manually started or electric start (battery has been removed). Everything is mounter to a skid platform and has a hinged steel enclosure. Measurements are: Length 39" x wide 25" x high 24" and I'm guess 400 to 500 pounds. The generator was made by Onan, a division of Baker Industries, located at Minneapolis, Minnesota. I think in March of 1970 (45 years old), if i have the date code figured out. The company is still in business, as Cummings - Onan of Elkhart, Indiana.

Anyone know anything about these generators? There is a lot of copper here if I was to scrap it, but I think that would be a mistake. What would you do?