HUGE Perkins Dorman Stationary Engine - Will It Run?
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2023
- In this video, I see if I can get this very large Dorman Perkins Diesel engine fitted to a genset in this railway carriage container running. I understand some of these style of engines were retrofitted as truck engines (smaller and earlier than this one) and in other vehicles but they made their name in marine and power supply generator engine applications, particularly in army or military applications in ww2 and after. I believe that at some stage, General Electric took them over and Perkins Diesel later bought out the Dorman aspect hence the reason this engine is classed as a Perkins in the original paperwork. Thanks for watching! Bruce
This bloke is gold.
Oh wow. Vivid yet terrible memories from childhood. My father, on reflection not a good person, would often take me to his workplace, a telecoms station, back in the 80's. There was a backup generator there, to keep the telecoms systems running in case of, well, war. His party trick was to show me around the place and start the generator, very similar to this one, when I was stood near to it. I remember the huge room going from silence to madness in a couple of seconds. I remember running out of the room in terror.
Perkins made some fine engines but the new ones are giving out. The old crusher here had a D-8 or 9 genset in a trailer, pony motor start before 3-phase line was run. It was sure interesting starting it with a flashlight in the dark but when it fired you had power and light. The exhaust was shot so you had a trailer full of white smoke till the Cat lit off. Good for you, Bruce! CHEERS!
A Tuned Perkins is a Joy of smoothness to run in anything. That one sounds Superb.
Hi,I sailed in a tug with three of these engines as generators.They had hydraulic starter motors.cheers,Roly🇬🇧.
I was a DCA mechanic in the late 60's. I don't remember much of the Q's - mostly dl4 and some 6's. That engine will go forever!
Love this stuff. It reminds me of one time while aboard a huge cruise ship and was privileged to have the first engineer give me a tour of the engine room. 2 long banks of coupled together diesel engines turning huge generators. The noise was unbearable!!
It was so good to hear that old girl fire up Bruce, she’s a beauty.
What a 'stonking' bit of kit!.... Nice one!. Nuff said. 🙂
Bruce can no do better then old school.
Another great vid Bruce. The rate at which our coal-fired power stations are closing, and the increased demand for EV charging and air-cons leading into summer, you may have an opportunity to top up the network ha ha.
OOOOOHHH. The sweet sounds of a big Perkins. It would be a thing of joy just to come and stir it up once a month just to make sure she still purr's. I could sit there with a couple of stubbies while it had a monthly test quite easily. The noise, the smell. You won't get that with your electric MOTOR. Maybe set it up as a charging centre and do us all a favour and tip in 3 phase into those fuse's on wheel's.
Bruce, I have a 110 kva Dorman generator also driving a McFarlane alternator that I use to drive my 100 kva induction furnace - only runs occasionally as it's a hobby. The Deep Sea controller one yours I'm fairly sure is a retrofit - mine originally had a whole shelf full of relays controlling it but I removed them and fitted - guess what - a Deep Sea controller that handles starting and stopping, controlling the fuel solenoid and starter relay and monitors oil pressure and engine temperature.
Good video Bruce no adverts noisy intros or music just great information on the things you are working on you explained every thing in a way everyone can understand really looking foward to your next video pete
Had 2 slightly smaller Dorman as harbour sets on trawler, one night the 330 kw went kaput, we tried to start a Dorman, they hadnt been run in years, it was air start and refused to go, the boss in his wisdom kept pouring ether into it. Then it decided to start and had the revs run away, smartarse me reached behind the injector pump for the shutoff lever just as a bigend parted company and struck my hand, by the time I freed my hand it was a mass of black and red, oil and blood. Stopped me in my in my tracks for a few weeks! Finished up having to run the main engine so the shaft gen could power the refrigerators.
The company Dad worked with had a former NSW Egg Board generator driven by a Davy Paxman Ricardo diesel engine located at a quarry they had. It didn't have a muffler, just an exhaust pipe out through a hole in the shed and out into the bush with an elbow on the end pointing up. It was a huge engine and a thing of beauty to a young teenager's eyes, but when it was operating you couldn't stay in the shed with it as the noise was horrendous. Unfortunately a head gasket issue led to water in a cylinder and we all know what happened next, yep,blew the gasket out,cracked one of the heads and put a rod with piston attached outside the block. Scrap metal!
I have come across a Dorman English Electric genset years ago. Good reliable bit of kit.
This reminds me of my job. I work on fire pumps for large buildings that supplies water pressure for fire sprinkler systems. If the city pressure isn't enough to cover a fire, the good old pump kicks on. I like the diesel places. Most here in California are electric. Diesel is the best in my opinion. Great video my friend 👍
Awesome, that was funny when it started you had a big smile on your dial,their must be a lot of stationary engines just sitting around eh. Gerald Feilding, New Zealand.
F.G. Wilson are a major builder of generating equipment in the UK. They're the company who take the Dorman engine, marry it up to the McFarlane alternator. GEC (not to be confused with the American GE company) was a major electrical/electromechanical engineering company in the UK. They also made excellent electrical control gear. GEC took over Ferguson Palin, which was a Manchester based electrical switchgear manufacturer until about 1962/3. Ultimately, GEC was absorbed into AEG somewhere in the 1980's, I think. All great names that are now extinct, in all but name. However, F.G. Wilson are still in the game, or at least were when we last contacted them a few years back for a circuit diagram of one of their generator control cabinets.