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Posted By: farmboy70 Sunoco custom blender pump experts - Sun Sep 13 2020 02:22 PM
Need some help with this pump.
It is 511D
As can be seen in my other post I am starting tear down and clean up , I have a few questions.
From looking at as many posts as I can find it looks as though should not have the filters mounted on the out side as it has fuel spinners.
Which contains lead sign should it have? anti knock or tetraethyl?
Should the fuel spinners be painted?
Were all the early pumps 8 price ,mine is a 5 changed to a 4 with aluminum tape covering.
Should I leave it a 5 or change it to a 8 ? Leaning to a 5 as the plate is original.
This will be my center piece pump so I want to get it as right as possible.
Thank for any help .
Dave

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Posted By: farmboy70 Re: Sunoco custom blender pump experts - Mon Sep 14 2020 10:16 PM
While there hasn't been a lot of response to my posts, I hope as the answers start to come it will help someone else who may want to do one of these.
So I thought I might try looking up old ads from back in the day to help with some details.
It looks very early on they went with 8 price readers, then decided that wasn't for every station and changed to 6 reader. But mine has a 5 reader panel ,so it looks as though a station could get , for the most part a choice, or change to multiple arraignments.
While not ;locked in stone as fact it makes sense.
Dave

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Posted By: farmboy70 Re: Sunoco custom blender pump experts - Mon Sep 14 2020 10:19 PM
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Posted By: farmboy70 Re: Sunoco custom blender pump experts - Mon Sep 14 2020 10:25 PM
So far I havent found a picture with a 5 panel like mine.

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Posted By: farmboy70 Re: Sunoco custom blender pump experts - Mon Sep 14 2020 10:30 PM
I also found it interesting that some show wording under each spinner. And some don't.
Dave
Posted By: fuelboy Re: Sunoco custom blender pump experts - Tue Sep 15 2020 11:53 AM
Hi Dave, just have to be a little patient with things like this. A lot on here read and see things but everyone seems to have their own slice of the petroliana pie so sometimes it takes awhile for a knowledgable person with your particular tastes to see this and come forward with helpful info.

I'm just saying don't get discouraged. You're most likely helping others out by what you're doing as well! wink
Posted By: DWSheffer Re: Sunoco custom blender pump experts - Tue Sep 15 2020 01:50 PM
Sorry you aren't getting more responses to your posts Dave....I've been impressed with the amount of research you're putting into your project and that alone is commendable!
And that's right, once it's posted on here the research is available to anyone researching to topic.
Darin
Posted By: farmboy70 Re: Sunoco custom blender pump experts - Tue Sep 15 2020 04:33 PM
No problem guys, I enjoy digging into this stuff. I am in the process of gathering all the chrome parts that need redone and then moving onto the lower assemblies.
Painted side panels will go fast as there is very little damage
Planning on getting all the panels for the pump and the Alemite oil dispenser ready to paint at the same time.
Dave

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Posted By: Dave Rowlison Re: Sunoco custom blender pump experts - Tue Sep 15 2020 04:34 PM
I am not a blend pump expert but here are some pictures from a Sunoco book.
Also as a teenager in 1958 I remember the blend pump at a local Sunoco station had 8 spots with the 250 left blank & the 260 was blocked as the pictured pump.
Depending on the marketing area not all grades were available.
The "Priced Below Regular" are signs for the introduction of the 190.

Dave

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Posted By: farmboy70 Re: Sunoco custom blender pump experts - Tue Sep 15 2020 05:01 PM
Very ,very helpful. I have yet to see a five price reader like mine.
Thank you. I need to find a copy of that book.
Dave
Posted By: advertologist Re: Sunoco custom blender pump experts - Tue Sep 15 2020 05:31 PM
hancock was another company that used the blended pumps (7 blends) .. ... cool

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Posted By: farmboy70 Re: Sunoco custom blender pump experts - Tue Sep 15 2020 06:35 PM
Originally Posted by advertologist
hancock was another company that used the blended pumps (7 blends) .. ... cool
Great old pictures!
Posted By: steven g Re: Sunoco custom blender pump experts - Tue Sep 15 2020 09:36 PM
Skelly used them also, they had 5 grades. I have a Bennett blender that appears to use the same computer, with the capability of nine grades and prices.
Posted By: Cold Pizza Re: Sunoco custom blender pump experts - Wed Sep 16 2020 01:35 AM
Kerr-McGee sold gasoline with the Wayne 511 Blender pump also.
Posted By: mapper Re: Sunoco custom blender pump experts - Wed Sep 16 2020 01:44 PM
Dave, what is the name of the Sunoco book you got the pictures from?
Posted By: Dave Rowlison Re: Sunoco custom blender pump experts - Wed Sep 16 2020 02:42 PM
Centennial Celebration
The Story of Sun Company

Less than 100 pages

Dave
Posted By: mapper Re: Sunoco custom blender pump experts - Wed Sep 16 2020 05:09 PM
Thanks! It can be purchased on ebay or abebooks.com for about $6.
Posted By: farmboy70 Re: Sunoco custom blender pump experts - Thu Sep 17 2020 03:51 PM
Big thank you going out to Mike Conliff for the help and sending me a copy of service manual, parts book.
It will be so much help.
Also Mike Ezzi for the 8 reader panels. If I go to 8 reader they will be a very hard part to find.
Thanks
Guys!

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Posted By: farmboy70 Re: Sunoco custom blender pump experts - Sat Sep 26 2020 02:46 AM
I spent some time watching YouTube Sunoco commercials and they give a nice look at stations and pumps back in the day.
Very help full.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iUNykw-BG0&pp=QAFIAw%3D%3D
Posted By: farmboy70 Re: Sunoco custom blender pump experts - Sat Sep 26 2020 02:54 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iUNykw-BG0&pp=QAFIAw%3D%3D

1962 eight reader, duel fuel spinners and large front spinners. My pump is dated 1963 on computer.
Dave
Posted By: Dave Rowlison Re: Sunoco custom blender pump experts - Sat Sep 26 2020 09:30 AM
Some training slides that I have made into prints.

Dave

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Posted By: Dave Rowlison Re: Sunoco custom blender pump experts - Sat Sep 26 2020 09:38 AM
Some pictures from slides, from the late 1950's with the spinning wheels.

Dave

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Posted By: farmboy70 Re: Sunoco custom blender pump experts - Sat Sep 26 2020 01:14 PM
Those are a great help! I have a plan to make a top bracket for signage. That 260 picture gives me exactly what I was looking for along with the pumps.
Also I haven't seen that shield decal on the trash can and oil rack before.
Thanks for posting.
Dave
Posted By: Dave Rowlison Re: Sunoco custom blender pump experts - Sat Sep 26 2020 02:10 PM
I haven't seen those decals either.

The jobber I worked for didn't add the Sunoco brand until 1979.

Dave
Posted By: farmboy70 Re: Sunoco custom blender pump experts - Sun Sep 27 2020 01:20 PM
Looking thru many adds and video's it looks as though there was a transition in where these plates went from black bottom to to white with arrows. Probably just before it went from slider bar to the roller sale marker.
Still digging on the date, also there was a small spinner version I haven't nailed down yet.

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Posted By: farmboy70 Re: Sunoco custom blender pump experts - Sun Sep 27 2020 01:25 PM
My pump had 5 reader panels when I got it ,with out the black lower .
Dave

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