[Vwdiesel] Diesels -- Disels big and small -- who is the smallest of them all ???

[H .Hagar]

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Those of you who are MAD about diesels -hope you took a look at the biggie =
     100 000 HP.        Big diesels were born in Copenhagen Denmark by Burm=
eister and Wain.   --about    1925 -- 1930. The engines were designed so bi=
g that they were chosen over Nuclear power for the first supertankers. Some=
 were made under license in Japan.Where can I find the smallest ????.   ---=
Swiss wristwatch drive ? maybe. On the big one you will se a gear on the cr=
ank ..on the left is a small electric motor. I call it a barring motor.Name=
 is a leftover from the days it was done with a bar in a hole in flywheel.I=
 was in Copenhagen visiting the shipyard  when a small person was inside on=
 the piston when the motor was started.A horrible slow way to go.There was =
ports in the sides of cylinders for access.Two cycle machines I think.Remem=
ber the truck innertube with Neutral mix ??? same place.My first diesel ???=
 I used to say Kobuta  ---  wrong    it was a McCoy  --   for a 72 inch win=
gspan cessna 170.     Dick McCoy sure made some wild little monsters.      =
    Hagar.
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