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Listeroid Engines / Re: Theory/Principles?
« on: June 26, 2018, 09:49:38 AM »
Just google "Indian Listeroid diesel engines" and spend a couple hours looking at all the advertising stuff from the many Indian makers of these modern "copies" of the original Listers
Then go to:
https://www.oldtimerengines.com.au/lister-engine-parts/lister-cs/
and :
http://www.centralmainediesel.com/order/lister-parts.asp
and you will see what the component parts of these very simple engines are, and that every part you could ever need is available, cheap, off-the-shelf, and of good-enough quality
A quick description:
What you are looking at is a Lister CS (cold start) single-cylinder, water-cooled, indirect-injection diesel. It has a cam-driven, piston-operated, mechanical injector pump and conventional injector unit. There are no electrics or electronics. Although the design is very sophisticated it is also very simple and unbelievably robust. They are designed to be able to be properly maintained by the "village blacksmith". Lubrication is by splash and simple, no-pressure oil-pump. Cooling is by thermosiphon
Since they are of very very heavy and very good quality cast-iron construction, and since they run at 600 RPM, they are very long-lived
People like me and others here like them because they were genuinely made to be endlessly re-buildable, but are quite capable of giving many thousands of hours of reliable service between rebuilds
There are no detail drawings extant that I am aware of
But if you are willing to help yourself by looking at the sites I have suggested and doing some reading, you will easily gain a good understanding of what they are and what they do
Then go to:
https://www.oldtimerengines.com.au/lister-engine-parts/lister-cs/
and :
http://www.centralmainediesel.com/order/lister-parts.asp
and you will see what the component parts of these very simple engines are, and that every part you could ever need is available, cheap, off-the-shelf, and of good-enough quality
A quick description:
What you are looking at is a Lister CS (cold start) single-cylinder, water-cooled, indirect-injection diesel. It has a cam-driven, piston-operated, mechanical injector pump and conventional injector unit. There are no electrics or electronics. Although the design is very sophisticated it is also very simple and unbelievably robust. They are designed to be able to be properly maintained by the "village blacksmith". Lubrication is by splash and simple, no-pressure oil-pump. Cooling is by thermosiphon
Since they are of very very heavy and very good quality cast-iron construction, and since they run at 600 RPM, they are very long-lived
People like me and others here like them because they were genuinely made to be endlessly re-buildable, but are quite capable of giving many thousands of hours of reliable service between rebuilds
There are no detail drawings extant that I am aware of
But if you are willing to help yourself by looking at the sites I have suggested and doing some reading, you will easily gain a good understanding of what they are and what they do