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Title: The Most Powerful Diesel Engine in the World!
Post by: dsquire on August 22, 2009, 05:07:16 PM

While trolling the net I ran across this. :coffee:

If anyone has a few scrap bits of metal laying about you might want to start building on of these! :lol: :lol: :lol:

http://people.bath.ac.uk/ccsshb/12cyl/

Cheers :beer:

Don

Title: Re: The Most Powerful Diesel Engine in the World!
Post by: sbwhart on August 23, 2009, 02:23:57 AM

Now ther's a chalenge fitting one of those beasts into a truck  :lol:

Thanks for sharing

Stew

Title: Re: The Most Powerful Diesel Engine in the World!
Post by: spuddevans on August 23, 2009, 04:49:19 PM

Ok, I've found my next engine build. Does anybody know a way of milling out one of those heads on an X2 mill?  :lol:

Tim

Title: Re: The Most Powerful Diesel Engine in the World!
Post by: CrewCab on August 23, 2009, 06:25:47 PM

Quote from: spuddevans on August 23, 2009, 04:49:19 PM

Does anybody know a way of milling out one of those heads on an X2 mill?  :lol: 

Very, very slowly  :coffee:

CC

Title: Re: The Most Powerful Diesel Engine in the World!
Post by: Brass_Machine on August 25, 2009, 10:16:13 AM

I don't know how many times I have seen that link... I never get tired of it though!

Eric

Title: Re: The Most Powerful Diesel Engine in the World!
Post by: bstarling on August 29, 2009, 07:46:10 PM

I am a total newbie, but do love machinery...I've one question regarding the engine. How, pray tell, do you start one? I can't imagine there's enough compressed air anywhere. I can't see an electrical starter doing anything. I know they used to use black powder charges to crank old tug engines. Would they use an explosive charge?

Thanks,

Bill

Title: Re: The Most Powerful Diesel Engine in the World!
Post by: sbwhart on August 30, 2009, 02:14:53 AM

I'd imagine they would start it with another smaller donkey engine, so how would they start the donkey engine you may ask  :scratch:

Have fun

Stew

Title: Re: The Most Powerful Diesel Engine in the World!
Post by: spuddevans on August 30, 2009, 02:20:56 AM

Quote from: sbwhart on August 30, 2009, 02:14:53 AM

I'd imagine they would start it with another smaller donkey engine, so how would they start the donkey engine you may ask  :scratch:

Well that's obvious, with another slightly smaller donkey engine  :lol:

But then, how do they start that engine?

Well with an even smaller...........


Eventually, with a big enough engine room, the smallest donkey engine gets started by an Elmers #25 wobbler powered by the farts of the ships cat  :lol:

Tim

Title: Re: The Most Powerful Diesel Engine in the World!
Post by: bstarling on August 30, 2009, 05:07:49 PM

Surely must be one HORSE of a donkey engine. Sometime in its life the thing has to be cranked once. I would guess the donkey must be about the 10th largest diesel in the world. :bugeye:

Bill