1904 air blast injection Diesel engine

[dieselfritz]

What you hear is a recording loop: noise in the foreground is intake air, remotely you hear the ding of the compressor first stage intake valve. Otherwise the engine is very quiet, somewhat like a steam engine.

[MrSciencetificsasuke]

what is the sound in the beginning of the video

[UGLandrum]

Damn good footage, one of the better vids on YT in relation to camera work and quality of footage, I love that old engine

[seapeddler]

Believe it or not, the engine was recovered from a crashed flying saucer.

[mrdeisel335]

Do you use the dynamo? If you do, What do use it for?

[outlawlilly]

I have to have one. I can make the witch down the street choke.

[joedrummer2010]

COOLEST VIDEO ON YOUTUBE!!!!!!!!

[losidude05]

i'm reading that book now on Clessie Cummins, he was really a genius figuring out how to make the diesel practical for automotive purposes.

[StillenGtr17]

What RPM is it running at?

[dieselfritz]

RPM is 195.

[mrdeisel335]

@dieselfritz Wow that is very slow for an engine.

[maschinenmeister]

4:57 very funny, it clarifies how slow the engine is running

[ZImpresive]

This is what powered the first USSR space craft.

[jasmenter]

thnx a lot ... really a great machine .

Really glad that you restored it to its original luster.

It's really a pleasure to hear her run :)

[Menelius91]

????? die verbrennung hört man ja gar nicht....

[turboslag]

Superb piece of Industrial history, a wonderful engine.

What power would it produce ?

[stabilini]

great video... and great piece of art you have there

[docbipe]

THE BEST QUALITY VIDEO ON YOUTUBE! HISTORY CAN, AND IS AWESOME!!

[12ock]

it is where all machines began i think.....1904 nice date to remember during its time maybe its expensive for and today it maybe out of date but still its more expensive i think this machine needs a birthday for its 100years of service

[toadabc]

I'm not smart enough to know what I am looking at, let alone design and build it, let alone do it 100 years ago. What a mind, what skill.

[mutterschied]

Bitchin' erotic can technology be....

Whadda wonder of a videoclip, fella! Thanks for sharing it!

[mrnewagemotor]

AMAZING - the technology for the year! It's hard to believe that it was made in 1904! The engineering technology and the craftsmanship it fantastic! Over head valve water cooled and DIESEL yet! Both - the horsepower and the torque must be tremendous!

[BuickDoc]

This video shows that there is nothing new in this world. Roller rockers.....

Great video!

[Bidone1967]

Das ist ja mal ein absolt herrliches Video von einem tollen Motor.

Vielen Dank für die Aufnahmen und 5*!

Bidone

[joegfjh]

2 or 4 cycle?

[jackonrock]

es ist schön, wenn man als grazer auf solche maschienen bzw videos stöst!

[RustyCarnahan]

What's the middle rocker for?

Logic tells me fuel injection, but I only saw it being used for startup. What am I missing here?

[dieselfritz]

Please look at the comment on the question by Shaun928 one year ago.

[Sigma33sailor]

Starting valve?

[SthealthRaider]

@RustyCarnahan I think its for the air that gets into the cylinder to start up! i didnt see an starter engine so it must have started on compressed air

[DmdHaui]

@RustyCarnahan :Start air. The engine is startet with compressed air instead of an electric starter.

[t28cj]

This engine is absolutely amazing.

The exhaust valve clearance looks a bit too big :)

[randomseriesofcharac]

I always wondered how pre fuel injection diesels ran, that was the problem Diesel never really solved and probably why he through himself overboard that night.

[dieselfritz]

Very few i.c. engines run sweeter than a well adjusted blast injection diesel built after 1902 or so. No reason to commit suicide. You should read Lyle Cummins History of the Diesel Engine.

[partsproduction]

@dieselfritz "Internal Fire" by Cummins, is that what you are referring to?

[dieselfritz]

@partsproduction No:" Diesel´s engine from conception to 1918". A bible for those interested in the early air blast engines. Possibly out of print but available from Amazon. By now there are more videos on these engines on youtube: MAN airblast diesel/MAN Einblasediesel/MAN DM 12

[charlessmyth]

Interesting to see the size of the cams on this engine and its 1906 Man, counterpart. It reminds me of a line of thinking I had many years ago where the rate of the cam rise and fall could be high, yet with a comparatively broad tip to the cam lobe, so as to keep the valves wide open for longer.

[WorldStove]

all those lovely cams!

[douro20]

They ought to cut out the starting air compressor once the thing is started; its sound is very dischordant compared to the diesel itself.

[dieselfritz]

The air compressor-being a specific feature of the Graz built engines- is not driven by links from the connecting rod as in the original MAN design, but rather by belt from a large pulley between engine and flywheel. Since the bottles are difficult to keep tight for months, the air compressor is driven by an electric motor (=cheating). The installation however allows to take off the belt to the motor and connect the compressor to the engine by belt the same way it was set up in 1904.

[9020powrmax]

I believe if the compressor were to be shut off the engine would soon die because of the blast injection setup? In other words the air is needed to provide "blast" air to overcome the cylinder pressure in order for injector to "Atomize" the fuel....

[douro20]

Well, it wouldn't normally because the engine's internal air pump would take over. But in this case, as the guy who posted this video said, the belt which drives it has been disconnected from the engine.

[douro20]

So is this the oldest running diesel engine in the world? I would like to think so!

[steamwally]

No, but it's only a couple of years of!

[dieselfritz]

It would be interesting to know which engine is really the oldest operational and actually running diesel as per 2009.

[steamwally]

I think the second oldest is at Internal Fire and they also have a replicar of the oldest (I think!)

Yours is prety much identical to those though.

Just a quick question. Someone made a coment that the air equiptment should be stopped once running but doesn't the engine relly on this for Air Blast?

All the best,

Phill.

[Johannes1955]

Dat is heel prachtig Dieselfritz, mijn complimenten voor deze film!

[Bidone1967]

Ein super Video mit interessanten Details.

Dafür gibt es natürlich 5*.

Gruß Bidone

[BlakeMason2]

sweeeet. thanks!

[aggie46]

Amazing machine...I noticed by one of the step plates that it had a built in indicator for measuring performance and diagnosing problems..

[TheChiefEngineer]

lol it took me a second or two to recognise it, but you're right!

[asiankid184]

magnificent

[maersklandro]

Wonderful. Thank you.

[ANewNormalcy]

The width of the web casting on the cam followers is amazing.

[sidecrank]

How much,please?

[Koseiko2008]

Makes a fine musical instrument, great rythym! Mit den Schwingrad keinen "offbeat"!

[MuellerNick]

Incredibly perfect rebuild!

Chapeau!

[BrainStirmKZ]

It looks like it can run like this for years! those low-rpm diesels are amazing machines!

[brimtv]

mighty fine!

[InflatablePlane]

Wow, it even has its original comressing equipment too! Amazing machine. Nothing like the diesels in VW's now! LOL

[rainstormaeroponics]

its got rolling rockers

gotto love these old machines great stuff

[1skiinIan]

that was an awesome vid. thanls for posting

[shaun928]

at 5:13 what is the middle cam lobe for?

[dieselfritz]

Four cam lobes. From left: intake, starting valve-disengaged when running, air blast needle -rocker arm hidden by camshaft, exhaust.

[tomterahedrob]

God bless you and Rudolph Diesel!5*This is art and science Way ahead of its time.Thank you!

[586guest2]

wow! its almost like a steam engine! so quite and slow running! thak you!

[sidecrank]

Wonderfull,thank you very much.

[coolumax]

Very Interesting, Looks like it's brand new. So clean and sparkling. Thx for showing it, and showing the exhaust also.