Posted: 9/7/2015 12:32:30 AM EDT
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It is like a diesel car/truck engine, but with everything other than the piston chamber exposed. Very cool that someone has it running after 105 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXzSZVgQwts |
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Thanks for posting OP. Yeah! That is awesome! 
Pretty cool story about it too... 1909 10HP Blackstone oil engine was used for pumping water from a river to a market garden. The engine was sabotaged in the 1920s by someone blowing up the cylinder with explosives. A new cylinder was installed and the engine was returned to service for a number of years when it eventually fell into disuse. A number of river floodings submerged the engine and it was eventually partially buried in silt. It was recovered in the 1990s and in 1997 it was dismantled, cleaned and started again after many years of neglect. The starting procedure requires heating of the hot bulb with a blow lamp in order to vaporise the fuel ( kerosene ) and to preheat the internal combustion chamber to allow fuel ignition. |
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Wonder how many hands and arms that thing has chewed off? eta: Another one. From the description: 1919 Blackstone hot bulb 26HP stationary engine start up, Beautiful original engine running for the first time in 49 years on the 1st January 2014, this engine spent its working life driving a saw mill in County Kildare, and is now in a new home in County Monaghan Ireland.  |