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BIG diesel engine
Yowza...
http://people.bath.ac.uk/ccsshb/12cyl/ Sorry for the off-topic, but this thing is amazing. Seems like someone posted a similar page in the past; hope this is not a repost.
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It is.
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Repost. At least three times since I joined here. And yes, it's big too.
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Yeah, I thought I'd seen it before, too, but couldn't remember if it was here or elsewhere that it had been discussed. Did you see that WWII German U-Boat diesel motor that was posted a few weeks back? That was cool, too. IIRC, it was posted on eBay!
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I love that part in Das Boot where they're making the balls-out run through the Straits of Gib and the crazy engineer is checking the engines. He opened some sort of valve on the cylinders and blue flames jet out on the power strokes. Man, with all that exposed valve gear in that engine room, you could loose a finger in there.
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It would suck if you got sucked into the air intake on one of those... Without a turbo, you might make it into the cylinder
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we need the helmets thoes guys are wearing over here. they must be rated to widthstand an impact of 400 tonns
seriously though, if something from that engine fell you would not live. i would work balls to the wall with no helmet. i would want it to be instant not semi instand with that helmet.
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I want to see the turbo for that thing!
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This is the fourth or fifth thread on this.
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I get a kick out of it every time though.
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That li'l valve is an "Indicator Cock"...
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The actual purpose of the indicator cock, is to provide both a place to mount an "engine indicator" and to allow access to the various pressures within the combustion chamber.....the indicator is an instrument that allows you to actually see the combustion process in a graphic form......there is a lever attached to a piston (balanced against a spring).....the lever scratches a trace if it's movement onto a (sort of) waxed paper......and depending if you pull the card in or out of phase with the engine cycle.....will depend on what one can determine about the health of the combustion process within that cylinder......you can tell compression pressure, combustion pressure, exhaust back pressure, as well as the condition of your Fuel Injector Nozzle.......and the horsepower generated by each cylinder (when reading cards with a planimiter).... This is done digitally these days......but pulling a set of indicator cards was an art form.....took lots of practice.... SB
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Interesting.
Reciprocating steam locomotives (and I'm sure any steam engine) use engine indicators to monitor cylinder activity but I never knew that engine indicators were used on internal combustion engines.
Learn about it all here at Mercedesshop.
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But that's OK since I missed the first three or four.
As a kid, I got to visit the engine room on the Italian line's MS Gulio Cesare. What a racket those twin Fiat diesels made! Happy Motoring, Mark
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