[SEL] Re: Venn-Severin engine

[Listerdiesel]

On 03/08/06, Andy Glines <andyglines at hotmail.com> wrote:
> The SIAM club owns a 2 cylinder V-S and it works just like this one.  Ours
> also drives generator via V-belt.  The torches are lit and heat a piece of
> metal rod (hot tube) in the cylinder head to aid in starting.  I believe
> that there are also electric glow plugs that were probably used when
> exercising the generator.  An air line is hooked up to the engine.  There is
> a lever on the the engine.  You push the lever to let air into the cylinders
> for starting.  When the engine fires you release the lever to the run
> position.  When you want to stop the engine you pull the lever until it
> stops turning.

The engine probably wouldn't sustain running without a decent load, so
the glow plugs are possibly to keep it running on small loads or, as
you say, excercising the alternator or testing the setup.

Peter
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