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Beginner's Luck

By Brian Dods

2436 Westcott Road, RR#4 Duncan, B.C. Canada V9L 3W8

After being invited to the Puget Sound Antique Tractor and Machinery Show for the weekend and seeing all the old stationary engines, I was hooked. In the next couple of weeks after returning home, I acquired a 1 HP Fairbanks Morse in very tough shape. I then decided to place an ad in the paper for any antique engines anyone might have.

Within two weeks I had a call from a lady who was selling her uncle's estate. She said there was a small engine in the pump house, if I was interested. I could hardly wait for the next morning, when I would meet her at the house.

When I reached the property, it looked as if the old fellow who had lived there was a real collector. There were boxes of odds and ends everywhere. I walked into the pump house to find this old engine still hooked up to the water pump, fittings and belt in...

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