champlinman
Great pic.
No molesting has taken place on the plumbing and still holding their original blue paint coat.
Beautiful..
The excuse that "a bad back over time" is the result of pump still holding it's guts,seems to be the common denominator with a some,especially those whose intent is to find,flip & take them from show to show to show..unless your Dave Gill,who has OCD.
If that is the case,might I suggest a simple exercise routine beforehand as well as a dolly,or maybe a trip to a chiropractor?
I'd hate to see rows of original gutless gas pumps in a museum 50 years from now,each with their bottom panels removed showing an empty void with a sign explaining "owner said he had a bad back".
DB
You can't compare this to taxidermy,as that's a dead animals flesh & organs that will not withstand the test of time unless a beating heart still persists.
Now, take another look at the pic above and tell us you are going to remove all that, drain all the old gas out of it (remember you have two meters, each containing about a gallon each of some of the worst smelling gasoline) and restore every part(and remember how it all went back together) back to what it looked like when it left the factory.
Jack,I did just that with 3 separate Wayne 511 gas blender pumps within a few hours for each.One of them I show above.
I just took digital photos of everything beforehand for easy reassembly,but it really wasn't necessary.
Then sprayed WD-40 on any stubborn bolts.
Drained less then a gallon of gas out of the bellows & pipes.
Rinsed out the bellows & pipes with water.
Let air dry a few hours,then reassembled.I didn't "restore" or repaint a thing.Just hand wiped everything down & installed letting the factory finish show.
As Johnny Bench would say,"No runs,no drips,no errors."
how about selling a WWII bomb that was still set to explode?
I've seen a few war collectors who still have active hand grenades & land mines in their collections and still have all their digits to prove it.
I've yet to hear of any past or current news reports of an unmolested gas pump exploding due to holding active gasoline today.
