[SEL] Venn-Severin engine

[Listerdiesel]

On 03/08/06, Richard Strobel <Richard_Strobel7 at msn.com> wrote:
> 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.

You petrol-heads! :-))

Glow plugs have been around on diesels since the 1930's if not
earlier, and a lot of companies played with various 'extra-heat'
gadgets over the years to try and make starting that much easier.

Air start is not that unusual, surely?  The Mount Wilson F-M twin
cylinder is air start, and most decent sized industrial diesels were
air started, same as marine engines. Even Lister offered air-starting
on the JP6 engine range, which was a bit of a sod to crank over on a
cold morning, and that was a relatively 'small' engine compared with
this baby.

Cooling was probably by tanks, although radiators or evaporators are
also a possibility.

Peter
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