That was in the early 50s and they cost $1.95 or thereabouts. You had to
use ether to start them. One cold winter day we were heating some diesel in
a tobacco can lid and one of the guys added some ether. It wasn't too long
till if went "POOF' and there were three youngsters with no eyebrows, less
of a hairline and red faces from the burn. We had a bit of explaining to
do but we were a bit more careful the next weekend and got the thing going.
Quite noisy as I recall.
For the next project we saved up and boght a ram jet that was advertised at
about the same time. It was quite a bit more fun., but that's a longer
story.
73
Hank WD5JFR
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rich Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mercedes mailing list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 11:51 AM
Subject: [MBZ] Small diesel
What is the smallest diesel engine commercially available? Maybe
something like lawnmower size, a few HP? I think I recall seeing back
when I was a kid (more than 10 20 30 years ago) some little model airplane
engines that were diesels (come to think of it, the 2 cycle screamers were
compression engines I guess, with a glow plug to start them, ran on
nitromethane or whatever that stuff was that Cox sold you in a can, and it
burned very hot with no visible flame, and stung like hell) but I might be
misremembering. Are there some that are used in trucks to run gensets or
A/C units while they are stopped?
--R
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