Early Fairbury mill

[Dave Straub]

Working on an old Fairbury oil bath with wooden pitman arms. Quit different from the 7AA series. Anyone have info or parts diagram or has overhauled one?

[sandhillmills]

Dave,I have a 1925 Fairbury "Blue Book" which shows all of their products. They list a No 7 Super-Oiled which has wood pitmans listed in the parts list. It appears somewhat different from the 7AA. Hope this helps.

[babraid]

On the Vintage Windmill Parts site, there is literature for the models 7A and 8 that describe them as "super-oiled". Baker's green trade literature book lists documents for the 7A, 7AA, and 8 that describe them as "super-oiled". However, some 7AA documents omit this term.

I wonder if "super-oiled" was a marketing term that was somewhat loosely applied, or if the term denoted an actual subset of the 7A, 7AA, and 8.

[windybob]

Ah yes, the launguage of the salesman. lol If you can stretch the truth a bit, and make it sound really cool, you will sell more goods.