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By Fred Gertje

Orofino, Idaho 83544

Would any of our GEM readers know if Fairbanks-Morse ever used red paint an any of their engines, or if they ever built any engines under contract for mail order houses. I brought home a five horse engine a few weeks ago that was painted red, and which the owner insisted was FM. He backed his argument with the statement that he had to buy a governor weight for it once, and he got it from a hardware dealer who sold FM engines. There doesn't seem to be any name plate or serial number on it, and the only number I can locate so far is a part number on the con rod. There is no magneto, but on the side of the frame next to the belt side flywheel there are two holes about 3/8 that are tapped. The ends of the crankshaft extend only two inches past the flywheels, and the flywheels do not seem to have been balanced, as they seem to stop always in the same place, and the...

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