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If it weren't for this website I'd never have heard of Sunset or Seaside or dozens of other early western gasoline brands.
My second Sunset pump is finally finished. It carries Sunset DeLuxe lettering. This pump is shown "naked" in one of the posted pictures to illustrate the internal parts. Both the pumps are Wayne Boyle-Dayton cut 83s. Also posted is a primordial photo of this very same pump as it looked on the ranch where I found it in 1978. The ranch owner gave it to me but it took nearly 28 years to get it to where it now glows. It would never look this good if it weren't for Willy Brown, metalsmith and paint wizard and, of course, Mike Slama (lenses and decal) and Ron Scobie (hose and, not shown, handle.) Al Barrows

Holy Smokes! Those are really shaweeeet!

VERY nice!!!!!!!! Patience & hard work pays off!!!!

Theone you got from the farmer, looks like it has the globeholder that takes the lightbars!.. is there 2 or 3 tapped holes between the globe and the bonnet?

Those look GREAT together!

What do the signs mean "keep stuffing boxs tight"?


Travis E. Towle
Topeka, Kansas

785-357-1004

I was wanting to know the same question?I was just thinking about asking earlier in the day,thanks.Hopefully we get a reply and I can go to sleep.

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REALLY NICE!

Keep stuffing boxes tight= Packing gland below the cylinder and on the pump itself. Keep the stuffing boxes tight to keep gas from leaking out. Larry

[This message has been edited by st.rod (edited 01-29-2006).]

I used to think the stuffing boxes were the big brass cylinders in the pump! No so. Here are two scans of a Cut 83 pump from the Wayne Boyle-Dayton manual. Note that the stuffing "box" is labelled C-1041. Obviously, if this packing and shaft leak gasoline will drip down into the pump. So "Keep it Tight."

Dodogas, we've had this discussion before. Here is the cast iron globe holder from the DeLuxe pump. It is different from your Boyle-Dayton holder. Did you ever get the light housings reproduced? Ranchpump

The stuffing box is the packing arond the shaft as you use it it wears and gets loose on the shaft. the stuffing is made of rope with a wax like coating, or grease like. When you tighten the big nut (packing nut) around the shaft it squishes the rope and tightens it around the shaft to make a seal. It needs ocasional tighting to prevent leaking from use. Hope this helps and you understand what I am talking about. The hose valve on the outside of youre house is the same way. So if you turn the water on and it leaks around the shaft of the handle take a wrenchn and snug that nut up and it will quit. Usually small incrments were needed maybee 1/2 turn. Once the nut bottomed out you took it apart and put in a new rope (packing) and started the whole process over.
Brandon

I believe that Scobie may have made a few of them, I have not got close to doing it yet.

The green one definitely ready to go on the light arms if you can find a set.

Your pumps look great.

THOSE SCANS ARE GREAT - "

Here are two scans of a Cut 83 pump from the Wayne Boyle-Dayton manual."

Does anyone have something like this for a Fry 73 Speedboy model?


Travis E. Towle
Topeka, Kansas

785-357-1004

Nothin' like a nice pair.....