Wow, you guys would have appreciated this. ----> When I was a kid back in the early 70's I passed by this sheet metal shop located in a business district in a small town. These huge garage doors were opened so I peeked inside as I walked by. It was dark inside but I could see all these large belts lining the walls and ceilings and they were all spinning. They were powered by engines like this. I felt like I stepped into an old-timey movie back in the horse and buggy days.
That sounds so good! I would love to see it loaded up with the generator it has. Synchronize it to utility and run baseload. Run it at 100% power back to utility and let it give all it's got!
cool air start video....i love air starters....I worked in a power plant that had air started V12 Cummins and cat diesels used to start combustion turbines.... always fun to start
That is the radiator for this big engine. It's a cooling tower where the water that is circulated through the engine is pumped to the top and gravity pulls it down through the pans and screens and separates it into thousands of little droplets. As the droplets cascade down, they shed heat as they pass through a big volume of air. The water is collected in the bottom of the tower and pumped back through the engine to pick up more heat and bring it out for another go around in the tower. Due to it being a fully open system, lots of water is lost to evaporation and splashing, so more water needs to be added periodically. Cooling towers like these were very common cheap very low maintenance and dead reliable back in the day when stationary engines powered much of America.
Your hunch was correct. As for the bug comment, that certainly wouldn't be equal to a Magic Mountain ride, but no doubt, these systems sure did ingest many many bugs!
Except this is a model Y, not a YV.... The model Y engines use glow plugs heated by tourches, such as this one. The YVA engines were the first true cold start diesel engine. They are very easy to tell apart.
Just think 150 horsepower out of 15,000 Cubic inches. nowadays an old chevy 350 from the 70's makes that much HP. I do however realize the torque might be a little more for the FM.
From my (Audels Diesel Engine Manual Questions and Answers) book copyrighted 1936, 1939. Audels was/is known as one of the definitive sorces of technical information and even they have a chaptor on semi-Diesels. They do however open the chaptor with this. open quote Unfortunately and too often objectionable terms creep into technical language and become so deeply rooted that it is impossible to get rid of them. A notable examble being the term "semi-Diesel". Let it be thoroughly understood that there is only one Diesel engine, the engine which ignites by the heat of compression. So-called semi-Diesels do not. However, it is necessary to tolerate the term semi-Diesel, even by writers, because some readers less informed would think something was omitted from a Diesel book unless they saw the term semi-Diesel. The proper name is surface ignition engines. end quote So even while it is not technically right if you try to change it you are just pissing into the wind, no one cares and you just get wet. And also in a footnote open quote The so-called semi-Diesel engines were in operation long before the Diesel engine was invented. What were they called at that time? end quote
Semi diesels still burn the fuel by using the compression, only they are required to start initially off the torch fired glow plugs. After the engine starts and gets going, you are supposed to turm the preheat torches off. This is known ans the model y diesel. Later on the yva was developed as an actual cold start diesel engine, then in 1932 fairbanks designed the similar model E32
The step back from semidiesel are hotbulbmotor. That motor needed heating by a blowtorche on its bulb to start. It had an injector that sprayed the fuel into that same hotbulb, where it ignited. A big problem was that this kind of engine took very little load before the bulb went too hot, so someone found that when the motor was hot enough, the spray of fuel could be sent directly to the top of the piston, this made the motor almost twice as strong. To do this a turnable injector was made. This motor akso needed preheating, but it had the facility of a turnable injector. This is the semidiesel, it starts as a hotbulbmotor and after it is warm it runs as dieselmotor. And I have owned a semidiesel or two in my lifetime.
When an apocaypse comes those old engines can be used to power a small village
Wow, you guys would have appreciated this. ----> When I was a kid back in the early 70's I passed by this sheet metal shop located in a business district in a small town. These huge garage doors were opened so I peeked inside as I walked by. It was dark inside but I could see all these large belts lining the walls and ceilings and they were all spinning. They were powered by engines like this. I felt like I stepped into an old-timey movie back in the horse and buggy days.
That sounds so good! I would love to see it loaded up with the generator it has. Synchronize it to utility and run baseload. Run it at 100% power back to utility and let it give all it's got!
cool air start video....i love air starters....I worked in a power plant that had air started V12 Cummins and cat diesels used to start combustion turbines.... always fun to start
Yeah, I remember you mentioned that a while back. Air starters are cool. Thanks for watching this one too.
Sounds like it's only running on two cylinders.
thing of beauty.. is it a hot bulb engine ?
sounds like it has a rod knock
whats the water thing for?
That is the radiator for this big engine. It's a cooling tower where the water that is circulated through the engine is pumped to the top and gravity pulls it down through the pans and screens and separates it into thousands of little droplets. As the droplets cascade down, they shed heat as they pass through a big volume of air. The water is collected in the bottom of the tower and pumped back through the engine to pick up more heat and bring it out for another go around in the tower. Due to it being a fully open system, lots of water is lost to evaporation and splashing, so more water needs to be added periodically. Cooling towers like these were very common cheap very low maintenance and dead reliable back in the day when stationary engines powered much of America.
@@espeescotty thats what I thought. Can you imagine being a bug getting stuck in that, going through the engine? haha, they'd drown but still!
Your hunch was correct. As for the bug comment, that certainly wouldn't be equal to a Magic Mountain ride, but no doubt, these systems sure did ingest many many bugs!
Except this is a model Y, not a YV.... The model Y engines use glow plugs heated by tourches, such as this one. The YVA engines were the first true cold start diesel engine. They are very easy to tell apart.
It's faulty - only running on two cylinders.
Just think 150 horsepower out of 15,000 Cubic inches. nowadays an old chevy 350 from the 70's makes that much HP.
I do however realize the torque might be a little more for the FM.
"a little more"
I'd say a LOT more. XD
You need 3065ft-lbs of torque to make 150hp at 257 RPM. So yeah a LOT more.
@@matt420740 About 3 times more right? Lol!
@@24681359David closer to 10
What do you mean "semi"-diesel? It is, or it isn't a diesel (compression-ignition) engine. So, wanna 'splain?
From my (Audels Diesel Engine Manual Questions and Answers) book copyrighted 1936, 1939.
Audels was/is known as one of the definitive sorces of technical information and even they have a chaptor on semi-Diesels.
They do however open the chaptor with this.
open quote
Unfortunately and too often objectionable terms creep into technical language and become so deeply rooted that it is impossible to get rid of them. A notable examble being the term "semi-Diesel".
Let it be thoroughly understood that there is only one Diesel engine, the engine which ignites by the heat of compression.
So-called semi-Diesels do not. However, it is necessary to tolerate the term semi-Diesel, even by writers, because some readers less informed would think something was omitted from a Diesel book unless they saw the term semi-Diesel.
The proper name is surface ignition engines.
end quote
So even while it is not technically right if you try to change it you are just pissing into the wind, no one cares and you just get wet.
And also in a footnote
open quote
The so-called semi-Diesel engines were in operation long before the Diesel engine was invented. What were they called at that time?
end quote
In the spirit of eschewing surplusage (per M. Twain), if it's a hot-bulb, KISS and call it that.
Semi diesels still burn the fuel by using the compression, only they are required to start initially off the torch fired glow plugs. After the engine starts and gets going, you are supposed to turm the preheat torches off. This is known ans the model y diesel. Later on the yva was developed as an actual cold start diesel engine, then in 1932 fairbanks designed the similar model E32
The step back from semidiesel are hotbulbmotor. That motor needed heating by a blowtorche on its bulb to start. It had an injector that sprayed the fuel into that same hotbulb, where it ignited. A big problem was that this kind of engine took very little load before the bulb went too hot, so someone found that when the motor was hot enough, the spray of fuel could be sent directly to the top of the piston, this made the motor almost twice as strong. To do this a turnable injector was made. This motor akso needed preheating, but it had the facility of a turnable injector. This is the semidiesel, it starts as a hotbulbmotor and after it is warm it runs as dieselmotor. And I have owned a semidiesel or two in my lifetime.
Are you filming the TFK TRUCK SHOW
Yes sir, I do intend on being there again this year.
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