www.centralmainediesel.com Thanks Dan! Actually, I found this site. The "project" I didn't quite get to this winter, maybe by next Fall. Keep thinking this thing would be ideal to burn some of the gallons WVO that I'm up to my neck in but chose not to use in the cars.
> From: LWB250 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 15:52:47 -0800 (PST) > To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: about the coolest thing I've seen in awhile > > Lister diesels are built by Lister-Petter, a > manufacturer of small displacement diesel engines > located in the UK. Lister is the heavy-duty cast-iron > side of the business, while Petter is the aluminum > block throw-away side. HawkPower is the brand name > for their gensets. > > Listers are big, heavy, very spartan and expensive, > but they are easily 10,000 hour engines if not more. > I used to work for a L-P distributor, and we regularly > saw Listers well in excess of 5000 hours that were > still in fantastic operating shape. > > Long before the advent of solar panels, the Petter > single cylinder diesel engine was the hands-down > favorite of the highway sign board (those flashing > arrow construction signs) business. Petter had a spec > that was built especially for this industry. It > consisted of a single cylinder Petter diesel belt > driving a Delco 12V alternator. The signs ran off of > 12V batteries that were charged by the Petter. 3,000 > hours was the MTBF, and by that time they were usually > scrapped. They were under $1000 with this setup, and > Petter did such a business selling them that they even > had a buy-back program where we would take them on > trade for new ones. The idea was that they didn't > want end-users rebuilding them... > > I could also tell you stories of single cylinder > Listers couples to Leroy-Somers alternators that we > used to ship into Africa welded into 55 gallon drums. > We also welded a chisel on the outside for the > receiver to use to get the drum open.. these were hand > crank units with no electricals, too. > > Kraft Power, one of my former clients located in > Boston (Woburn, to be exact) is a L-P distributor. > Owen Duffy is the owner - nice guy. > > Dan > > --- Timothy Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'd like to find one of those cast iron "Lister >> type" diesel engines. I saw >> some on the web imported from India? That would be >> kewl to use in a >> generator setup. >> >> Anyone know a source? >> > > > > ______________________________________________________________________________ > ______ > Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
