Large diesel engines - cold starts - old starts - bulldozer starts

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Please post videos of any interesting large diesel engines such as tractors and heavy machinery

Big Cold Tractors Engines Starting Up and Sound


Romanian tractor cold starts

Old Sikorsky helicopter starting up like a car

Starting turbine helicopter after 20 years

Camper Van - Cold start after being left for 2/3 years
 
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Crazy Cold Start Diesel Locomotive Engines and Sound

Old Tractors - First Start In Many Years - Diesel Engine Cold Start After Years
 
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You only show small diesel engines. I have worked on small up to around 500 kW but not the large diesels, although worked around them. Since often no gear box often the fuel changes for stop/start to run, often around 150 RPM at 300 RPM considered high speed diesel.

The idea of a bore one get inside of, and may be 6 staging levels is only really practical with ships, with generators tends to be turbine over 1.5 MW I know there a 12 x 1.5 MW diesels at Sizewell 'B' power station.

Same at Stanley and Mount Pleasant on the Falklands.
 
I don't have pics or videos but this reminds me of the morning starting ritual of an old Leyland skip truck my dad owned in the 80's (it was old even then). It didn't turn over fast enough so we used to jump start it using the electric welder - one person on the key shouting go to the welder switch holder... it didn't half spin quicker and fired up with a cloud of smoke thick enough to choke you. Those were the days eh lol
 
I think it is interesting to see how the diesel engines have worked, the commer and delta are interesting as two stroke as are all two stroke, most marine diesels are two stroke.

But watching black smoke not my thing.
 
ericmark said:
I think it is interesting to see how the diesel engines have worked, the commer and delta are interesting as two stroke as are all two stroke, most marine diesels are two stroke. But watching black smoke not my thing.
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I didn't know that diesels can be two stroke presumably that's just in marine diesels
 
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teaboyjim said:
I didn't know that diesels can be two stroke presumably that's just in marine diesels
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The Detroit was well known for two stroke and was the reason why the USA trucks with the vertical exhausts produced the plumes with a quick rev.

Here in UK the Commer likely most well known horizontal cylinders with 2 pistons per cylinder, which was basic same idea to the railway engine with the delta diesel with multiple of 3 cylinders and 6 pistons.

The power output per unit size far higher than 4 stroke but not as economical the CO2 thing will likely mean less and less 2 stroke.
 
So the A380 runs on gasoline? Always thought it was paraffin hence why called paraffin budgie, or 28 sec gas oil. But although often called compression ignition or diesel cycle also some times Carnot cycle, there were three cycles the last one the Otto cycle constant volume, constant pressure and a mixture of both, not can be perfect made, however they are all connected to the reciprocating engine, not a turbine.

I think a guy called hero invented the first turbine engine, but it was Charles Algernon Parsons who made it actually work, and Frank Whittle made it work without a boiler, and today the likes of Connah's Quay power station combine the two with the combined gas and steam turbine. When you look at the 600 MW turbine most of it is the covers.
 
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