... none of you seem to have mentioned yet that today, 11/29/2013, is the 100th anniversary of the death of rudolf diesel.... by suicide.

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'77 240D, 504H, OM617.952, etc.

I never knew. I wonder what drove him to suicide. Interesting account of his mysterious disappearance at Wikipedia:
Rudolf Diesel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Interesting the article quoted above doesn't list 11/29 as his death.

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& many more

Prolly heard about someone using grease in his engine.

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

He ended up breaking off a stuck glow plug in his 606.

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Heartless Dieselheads indeed.

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Daylight savings time really complicates the calendar for some of us....

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Rumor has it he was pushed overboard. No one knows for sure.

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88 Jaguar XJS V12 94,xxx miles. Work in progress.

Mercedes showed him their preliminary futuristic design projections of the 3.5 litre diesel engine?

Since good ol' Rudolf originally designed his engine to run off of mineral oil
and peanut oil, there can be no doubt but that the greedy forerunners of
Standard, Shell & BP had him killed---just for spite.

"On this day in 1913, Rudolf Diesel, inventor of the engine that bears his name, disappeared
from the steamship Dresden while traveling from Antwerp, Belgium to Harwick, England.
On October 10, a Belgian sailor aboard a North Sea steamer spotted a body floating in the water;
upon further investigation, it turned out that the body was Diesel's. There was, and remains, a great
deal of mystery surrounding his death: It was officially judged a suicide, but many people believed (and still believe)
that Diesel was murdered."

I'm sure he would be proud of all us inventive and enterprising folk
who have figured out how to safely run alternative fuels in his engine.

Jeff

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Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!

I read in a book one time that Rudolf was trying to design an engine to burn Coal Dust, because at the time there was piles of Coal Dust that was of no use.

Did some searching and there is some interesting info on it here.
Running Diesel Engine With a Coal Slurry : Single Tank Systems and Blending


Here is a few lines from the article:


His backers provided him with engineers to help him develop an engine that would burn coal dust -- at the time, there were mountains of useless coal dust piled up in the Ruhr valley...

Experimental engines

The first experimental engine was built in 1893 and used high pressure air to blast the coal dust into the combustion chamber. While the prototype blew its cylinder head off but, four years later, Diesel produced a reasonably reliable engine. His ideas for an engine where the combustion would be carried out within the cylinder were published in 1893, one year after he applied for his first patent.

Further developments using coal dust as fuel failed. A compression ignition engine that used oil as fuel was successful and a number of manufacturers were licensed to build similar engines.


Charlie

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there were three HP ratings on the OM616...

1) Not much power
2) Even less power
3) Not nearly enough power!! 240D w/auto

Anyone that thinks a 240D is slow drives too fast.

80 240D Naturally Exasperated, 4-Spd 388k DD 150mph spedo 3:58 Diff

We are advised to NOT judge ALL Muslims by the actions of a few lunatics, but we are encouraged to judge ALL gun owners by the actions of a few lunatics. Funny how that works

It took almost a year to find him? I am surprised there was enough of him left for ID.

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No, he died September 29, found ten days later. This thread is two months late.

-Rog

According to the Wikipedia entry they couldn't ID the body but his effects on the body (eyeglasses, ID card, etc. showed it to be him. He was so decomposed that they tossed him back in the drink.

Bad way to go in either case.

Dan

no thanks to whoever changed the thread title. did i use a bad word?

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