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Listeroid Engines / Re: Lister(oid) Concrete Base
« on: May 09, 2025, 12:02:07 AM »
A lot of the ground pounding issues with these engines is the horrible job of balancing that India preforms and when tied down on a piece of concrete the issues noted appear. Secondary issue is just how sensitive people are to it. At this moment there is a 1115 sitting on a yard of concrete and running about100 feet from my chair and the only way anyone knows it is powering the house is the slight flicker from the big single cylinder diesel. A CS Lister or a properly balanced 'roid does not pound the earth when setting on a
block of concrete and it will set reasonably still when sitting on nothing more than couple 4x6s sitting on the ground. I'm not a fan of letting an out of balance engine rattle around on a set of vibration dampeners because parts and pieces then vibrate loose. One of my shop customers has a CS 6/1 running behind the house to pump water and it's set a little under 600 RPM, exhaust runs into a pit silencer and is exhaust maybe 20 feet in the air. Aside of hearing the slight pop pop from the pipe there is no evidence of an engine running, no ground pounding whatsoever. So,, there is obviously more than one way to skin this cat but statements that point to they will all pound the ground if set on a concrete base are not quite factual.
block of concrete and it will set reasonably still when sitting on nothing more than couple 4x6s sitting on the ground. I'm not a fan of letting an out of balance engine rattle around on a set of vibration dampeners because parts and pieces then vibrate loose. One of my shop customers has a CS 6/1 running behind the house to pump water and it's set a little under 600 RPM, exhaust runs into a pit silencer and is exhaust maybe 20 feet in the air. Aside of hearing the slight pop pop from the pipe there is no evidence of an engine running, no ground pounding whatsoever. So,, there is obviously more than one way to skin this cat but statements that point to they will all pound the ground if set on a concrete base are not quite factual.
