I run mine every now an then to make sure it will work when I need it. Mine still has the price tag on it, as I"m at work right know and don't remember the exact price, I do know it was around the $450 dollar range. I chose a 4000 watt unit as I couldn't pick up one of the 8000 watt units. Thankfully I haven't had to use it for that purpose.Īt the COMB liquidator place they had the 4000 watt unit like yours and mine, as well as some 8000 watt units, all with the Fairbanks Ward tag on them.
The reason I bought the one with electric start, I know how hard and stubborn air cooled engines can be to start in cold weather and I bought the generator mainly to run the furnace in the winter if the power ever went out for an extended period of time from an ice storm or the like.
It has 2 field poles 180 degrees apart and the stator (as mentioned earlier) is the part that spins. unit and is pretty loud, the muffler is basically a tin can with no baffles in it. Mine has the 3 slip rings and each are double brushed (in parallell, two brushes on each slip ring) as well as a segmented commutator with 2 brushes. Starting battery charging is regulated by a resistor and nothing else. The start button is similar to the old foot operated dimmer switch (why did they ever do away with those, I hate having the dimmer switch, windshield wiper/washer, cruise control, etc all on the turn signal lever) with really heavy contacts. All the 4000 watt units were priced the same. I looked over their selection and chose one with the long oil fill / dipstick to put oil in the engine as well as electric start. They (COMB) had a showroom in Davenport, IA and at the time they had several units to choose from. The generator / engine is still painted it's original red color. Mine has a white sticker with red lettering on it that says Fairbanks Ward. I bought mine from COMB (the liquidator place) back in the mid 80's. Same techumseh engine, muffler, plastic fuel tank, carb/air filter and gen. I too have a generator that looks almost identical to your unit. Another place to get brushes from is helwig, I beleive their websight is
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