[SEL] Venn-Severin engine

[Richard Strobel]

Thanks guys!!  Glow plugs on big engines is a new one to me.  Sounds 
interesting.  Air start also intrigues me with the special valving 
arrangement and proceedure.

  Plan now is to head over on Monday (3rd) and get some photo's.

  Couple items I don't see in the pix's is any view of cooling radiator)?) 
(Possibly what a tower was used for) or any sort of muffler.

  Should be an education to say the least.


  Later,
RickinMt.




> Peter - Can't say for sure, you maybe correct.  Notice in the same photo
> the large old fashion blow torch mounted in such a way to heat the area
> of iron around the cylinder head top.
>
> I live less than 100 miles from Medical Lake, WA. USA and didn't know of
> the engine but the State Hospital has been there for years.
>
>
> Peter Scales wrote:
> > Hi Rick
> >
> > I would think that is a glow plug rather than a spark plug, to aid cold
> > starting by providing a "hot spot" in the cylinder head.  It would have
> > worked by resistance heating of an element inside the cylinder head. 
> > The
> > hand wheel is a bit more unusual, but I would guess either a 
> > decompression
> > valve, or a variable compression device to alter the overall compression
> > ratio.  Something similar is seen on the Lister C/S engine series.
>