Lister Engine Forum
Lister Engines => Original Lister Cs Engines => Topic started by: overbore on January 01, 2019, 04:22:30 AM
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Source is : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUsU5s0ofYo&t=502shttp:/ which said between 1926 and 1964 thousands of small Listers powered off-grid farms during the war.(WW-2).These were Lister Light units powered by ( hard to get petrol)
Laus Deo
ovebore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUsU5s0ofYo&t=1036s
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+1 Glort, I also watched the video and enjoyed it. Despite it being wartime with the fear of invasion and starvation the people thrived, lived happy and healthy lives and more importantly had a goal in life. I wonder what that says about our modern society in which everything is available at the click of a mouse pointer, provided you have the money or credit to buy it?
Bob
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I grew up in Northern Ireland it was the last part of the UK to get rural electrification. Up to the mid 1980's you could hear the Lister 6/1 chugging away everywhere in the countryside at night because many people kept their engine even when mains power was available. The sound of a Lister diesel is nostalgia to me so this year I intend to finish the slow speed generator even though it's a cement mixer engine rather than a CS
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In the fourth series, a "Field Marshal" diesel tractor is being shown. The fuel is preheated with a fiber( paper ? burn) then a 12 ga(guess) blank cartridge turns over the flywheel which starts the engine. Not a bad idea to copy. The KC-135 had that cartridge starter idea for alert purposes to start one engine. overbore
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Same thing with old John Deeres. i remember one from the '50s with a "bomb" start. Common, I think
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I watched half the series last night- very well done. The achievement of the UK farmers was amazing, as was the performance of the people of the UK.
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Same thing with old John Deeres. i remember one from the '50s with a "bomb" start. Common, I think
My old 1955 Deere has a flathead v-4 gasoline engine to start the 2 cyl diesel. Never heard of a "bomb" start John Deere, but I would be very interested in that possibility.
Ron.
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YOuTube has ample vids of Coffman cartridge starters. The Boeing company fitted English Canberra super large cartridge starters ( B-57) to the SAC KC-135 jet engines for emergency ( alert) starts.Lots of smoke and gas that spun over our jet engines. overbore