Your last generator Maintenance Run

[3930dave]

believe me they all suck

I wish I was surprised to hear that....

How (really) basic tech like that actually gets implemented (in a regulated environment yet) is part of why I'm less than enthusiastic about seeing our roads flooded with autonomous vehicles......

It's easier To Believe, when it's All Magic......

Rgds, D.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Salivating over Detroit 353 Engines on the Internet lately. How about a 353 Detroit 1200 RPM Generator?

Anyone know how bad they would be on fuel compared to lets say a 4 stroke 3 cyl naturally aspirated Kubota Engine?

 

[LouNY]

They weren't terrible but I'd expect that the newer would do 20% better.
Many of the 2-53, 2-71 and 3-53 ran 1200 rpm gensets for railroad refrigerated cars.

 

[Industrial Toys]

I was looking at some of those a while back but not with 353s. Maybe the 271s. Didn't know there was 253. Only 4 and 6.

Love a slow running diesel but fuel economy is maybe a more realistic focus, although for occassional outages, neither is probably that important.

 

[Chilliwack Murray]

A 1200rpm that sounds like 2400rpm. One thing nobody can beat them on is noise. A couple hours in a room with a 16v71 at full load and you can still hear it the next day even with double protection.

Industry name for Detroits is converters, as in the convert diesel fuel into noise... There’s a few other names referring to their inability to contain any liquids as well.

 

[Chilliwack Murray]

Just noticed your term ‘salivating’ which is kind of funny when referring to a ‘green leaker’ .

 

[Industrial Toys]

You suggesting it won't have a future in the GREEN NEW DEAL?

Are you talking coolant?

Shows how some feelings of nostalgia can be so devoid of important facts.

K. . . No Screamming Jimmy for Tommy!

 

[daugen]

There’s a few other names referring to their inability to contain any liquids as well

Driptroits!

 

[Chilliwack Murray]

They leak everything. That’s just what they do.

Green because that was the factory paint colour for 50 years until the 92 series came along.

The Canadian truck engines came from the Oshawa Ontario plant and were called Oshawa Vibrators by truckers when I started in the trade.

 

[aczlan]

Actually, that’s blue. Propylene Glycol is purple and considered low toxicity though I haven’t tried drinking it myself.

Funny side note, the antidote for antifreeze poisoning is a bottle of rye. If you ingest ethylene glycol they feed you some less toxic alcohol so you absorb that and less of the toxic stuff. We’ve had people want the company to supply them with a bottle in their service truck... just in case.

They say that the solution to pollution is dilution...


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