Found this rather amusing:

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/618fb6cbf2/gus-porter-american-legend-with-thomas-haden-church

Jason

I read about a guy who built his own splitter or as he called it, a wood extruder and he says it takes three people to keep it running at full speed.  He included a couple pictures, I think the table on top idea is pretty smart.  It's the last posting on this page:

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/build-yourself/133037-log-splitter-wedge-design.html

Jason

There was a guy on eBay selling the 12.5 and 20KW units, I recall they were selling for less then $2000.  I just checked and he doesn't have any listed right now, but if you really want one of these screamers then I'd keep my eyes open over there.  You could also sign up to the DD list at Yahoo Groups ( http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DetroitDiesel ), some of the guys there have these gensets and they might know of places where you can still source them.

Jason

An old water pumping station in England.  According to the article I read about this station it ran for 100 years non-stop basically before they shut it down.  They fire it up a couple times a year so that people can see it in motion.

http://www.opacity.us/site147_ryhope_pumping_station.htm

If you click on the image galley link at the bottom of the page you can see some pictures of the internals.

One thing I do find interesting is the picture label Pivot.  You can see the massive brass/bronze bushing that holds the shaft, is that a gap or a shadow at the top of the shaft?     If that's 100 years with of wear that's pretty good I think.

Jason

Search for Lanz and you'll find a fair amount of stuff, most of it is in German but it's still interesting to watch.  Lanz (German), Urusus (Polish) and Field Marshall (UK) were some big names in the hotbulb tractor business.

I know of 1 Lanz over by Goderich and another over by Ottawa, keep meaning to go out and see them but never have time.

Jason

I recall seeing some farm tractors on You tube that were hot bulb as well.

I have two engines in my collection, a 10hp unit connected to a 5KW head, the unit is built by Launtop, http://www.launtop.info/ and the other is a 4hp that I bought as a stand alone engine for next to nothing.

Neither engine have any markings as to who actually built them, but I will tell you that the 10hp engine is a FAR better engine.  The 4hp doesn't seem to run all that smooth, smokes a bit and can be a pig to start.  Both engines have a decompressor but the machining on the 4hp decompressor isn't perfect so it doesn't really work.  Another thing I noticed when I changed the oil in both of them is the screen in the serviceable oil filter was very poorly assembled in the 4hp engine but not the 10hp.  Clearly there are various levels of quality when it comes to these engines (like that's a surprise).

I think part of the issue with why the 10hp starts and runs better is because it's a lot heavier and had a lot more momentum when you pull it over.  I've pull started the 10hp with 1 pull at -10C but the 4hp likely won't fire at all at 10C, I'm sure I could get the 10hp engine running at -30C if I used the electric start.

If I had to by another engine I certainly wouldn't buy a 4hp engine unless it was dirt cheap like my engine was ( I think I paid $150 and it included shipping from BC to Ontario), I might consider a 6hp after careful inspection but I would buy another 10hp unit if it appeared to have the same quality as mine.

Rob, if you're passing by my place and would like to look at my engines just let me know.

Jason

Did some digging on their website and the online price is $899, I think Pat at Altopro has some in the $600 range on eBay not too long ago so I think PA is gouging just a little bit.  These guys also have them for the same price and they are a lot closer to us:

http://www.auroragenerators.com/Engines-p-1-c-13.html

I looked at the twins Mohamed was selling, my biggest concern is that this design is a home brewed Chinese idea and not a Yanmar clone like the 10HP engine is (to the best of my knowledge I could be wrong).  Some company in China just stuck two 10HP engines together and called it a 20HP.  I would be concerned about the amount of engineering and testing that went into this engine, sure would suck to sink $2000 into this engine and only find out after 500 hours the crank broke because they messed up the cylinder angle or something.  I seem to recall Cat made a V8 truck engine back in the '70s and the V was too tight and the engine ended up breaking cranks.

The price was $999.00 IIRC, Can dollars obviously plus taxes.  I have a Case 444 garden tractor with a ~16 HP cast iron single Kohler engine that just won`t quit.  When it eventually does I was thinking of one of the 20 HP, V-twin diesels that are the same ilk as the Lanmar clone at princess.  I first saw this twin diesel at Mohammed`s ebay site (motorsgeneratorsandstuff).

Sulfur is bad for diesels and bad for people too.  Back when they first dropped the sulfur limit (0.05% I think) the process the refiners used to strip out the sulfur also stripped out key lubricants from the fuel oil.  After injection pumps started to fail they realized their mistake and modified the process so that the lubricant was replaced.

All of my diesels were built between 1957 and 1980 and they all run fine on the low sulfur diesel, but I haven't run any ultra low sulfur diesel yet so I'll withhold judgement on that stuff.

Jason

Yes D4 is high in sulfur but isn't that good for lubrication in diesel engines??