As Fate Would Have It

By Staff
Published on January 1, 1986
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13905 Armentrout Rd., Fredericktown, OH 43010

It all started a year ago when I went to a show with a friend
who has some stationary engines. At that time I ‘got the
bug.’ Well, about three weeks went by and it was like fate a
sale came out in the local paper. There were about forty stationary
engines for sale. I put a bid on the very last one for sale and was
lucky to get it. It was a 1 HP Fairbanks-Morse. There were several
parts missing ‘Well, what should I do now?’ I said to
myself. The friend who I went to the show with suggested that I
subscribe to GEM, which I did. It was like fate again the very
first issue I received had an ad in the ‘For Sale’ section
listing parts for a F-M 1 HP. I sent a letter to them telling what
I needed and again it was like fate they had what I needed and the
restoration began. In the meantime, I wrote to the F-M Engine
Division and they told me where and what year my engine was
made.

Well, thanks to Harold Hauger of Mt. Vernon, Ohio, Gas
Engine Magazine,
and the Berkshire Flywheel Farm, I heard my
engine run for the first time on December 20, 1984. What a day! I
took it to my first show in May of 1985 and it was like fate again
out of all the engines that were there, I got my picture in the
local paper with my engine.

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