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Re: [ihc] Diesel hot heads



On May 18, 2004, at 12:30 PM, Jim Grammer wrote:

The wife was driving an
oxy/acetylene torch with a huge rosebud tip to heat the head. I watched the
dance for about 5 minutes, the cycle was heat....time....prime....crank.
While I was there, the engine gave no sign that it was even *thinking* about
sustained combustion :( I'm a glutton for punishment of a mechanical bent,
but really...

Jim

At last year's show there was the massive hot head diesel from Denmark that pumped water for 40 years or so, and was still running like a top.

Now you know why it ran more or less continuously for those 40 years, they didn't want to have to start it.

John Hofstetter



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