My father was a mechanic for 57 years... i told him i have seen an engine running at 0 RPM.... "IMPOSSIBLE," he says as we banter, i show him this, he says, "that is 0 rpm! I forgot about these, i worked on one during my apprenticeship", then he also told me about the time he started a Field Marshall.... with a shotgun shell.... Thank you for this, very good content made my dad remember some old times and tell me some great stories. Australia had to import everything at the time my dad started as a mechanic. He just turned 70 this year and was working at 11 years old with my grandfather in his service station. He said "I never want to smell f *&king engine oil again". Also said they could run this engine on whale oil.... and did.
Many WW2 aero engines had a cartridge starter (Coffman). Many needed one cartridge to clear the engine (ignition off) then one to start with ignition on. If it failed to start, you'd often have the engine on fire so make sure you know your mixture settings. :)
This is one of those cool things you see late at night deep in the TH-cam rabbit hole and think "I could use one of those in my workshop". What for? You ask. "What do you mean what for? To run it, of course."
I'm gonna change your statement a little with my case :D This is one of those cool things you see late at night deep in the TH-cam rabbit hole and think "I'm just gonna watch this one more and go to sleep, tomorrow is a working day" and A few moments later is 4 in the morning and in two hours you need to go to work...
I actually used to work on engines like this in the oilfield, they powered the pumpjacks. Thought it was pretty awesome that they were entirely self sufficient as they ran on the natural gas that came out of the well they were pumping. A few of them were converted to use crude oil to lube bearings, they tied into the oil tank and used a float valve to keep a small tank filled. The apocalypse could come and go while these guys just keep chugging along indefinitely. Ajax compressors are sort of a modernized version of this, but the air (natural gas) start system was so much fun to kick over and watch smoke billowing from a 16" stack.
I love the self sufficient oil wells. There is a well maintenance guy who posts videos of them on YT. I can't think of his name but I love his videos. All the wells in my area have been converted to electric. Not nearly as much fun to watch.
@@1978garfield Yeah, most of them out here are electric. I'm right in the middle of the West Texas desert, and ironically there's a forest's worth of utility poles, which sucks because I have to fly under all of those wires. Once free flowing stops, a fracked well starts off with an electric submersible pump, then to a long stroke (hydraulic/electric, usually), and finally to a conventional pumpjack. Most of the newer wells will more than likely never be combustion driven since there's already power on site, but on rare occasions you get a unique well that has tons of gas available compared to oil and water. It's more economical and productive to use a compressor and inject that gas back into the well for artificial lift, most of those operate on natural gas too. It's quite a different animal from the old hit and miss style single cylinder engines sputtering away all day and night, they sound much more like a diesel engine when running, a nice steady hum. Of course they're also computer controlled and fully automated, so when they go down you're out there sometimes for hours getting it started again, and they go down for silly stuff all the time. They just don't have the same kind of charisma and character that those old putt putt motors do.
@Maikro Wavee Obviously for the purposes of these simple engines... the oil only runs out when the engine stops....... unless the rod goes through the block, in which case the oil runs out faster.... and it definitely comes to an end then.
@@9crutnacker985 Untrue - with the appropriate belt drive ratio you can run all manner of equipment off of an engine like this (pumps, sawmills, grain threshing & milling, engineering equipment etc etc). Indeed, in the event of a global disaster such as a killshot solar storm, or nuke war, these may be the ONLY kind of engines that are still usable.
We used to do this with R/C airplane 2-stroke engines; the propeller would just flip back and forth, but they'd run like that if the needle valve was low enough. Really cool, thanks for sharing!!
I would get this from my Cox .049 trying to get a homemade 18" blade to spin in hopes of making a helicopter when I was 10 years old.......the stupid things we do as kids..... still have my fingers and that engine...lol
@@NenadKralj But I think your comment really is a reference to the lyrics of Substitute by The Who. "I'm a substitute for another guy I look pretty tall but my heels are high The simple things you see are all complicated I look pretty young, but I'm just back-dated, yeah Substitute you for my Mum; at least I'll get my washing done.....
Thanks for taking the time to explain the function and operation to start and run this engine. The principle is so simple. I find these old engines hypnotic and fascinating, especially zero rpm.
It's bollox really although it'd be interesting to know what speed it does actually do ! It needs a tacho mark at BDC and count the marks over 2 minutes to get RPM
@@LichaelMewis I didn't watch the video as I've seen a video of another tractor engine 'running' like that. Being a diesel, it's lowest RPM won't be as low as a petrol engine. A petrol engine can be started by a spark but diesels need a fresh compression of air (which heats it) for ignition.
@@c117ls7 If you measure the rotation speed over 90° and multiply by 4, you get rpm without needin a full revolution. Just a mild revolt will suffice ;)
I’m a Brit living in Romania, and occasionally, in rural areas, you’ll see one of these mounted on a self-propelled saw-bench, with a couple of guys taking it to the next job, to cut lumber from whole felled trees. They’re beasts of an engine, so much power from a single cylinder. You can hear them coming from several hundred meters. 🤣❤️👍🏻🇷🇴🇬🇧
My grandfather had a big 30 liter single cylinder engine in his old fishing boat. Took 1 hour to start. Blew nice black and blue smoke rigns out the stack. Sounded a bit like this, only it ran really slow on idle. I don't remember the make of the engine, but it was made in Norway in the late 20's. Great video. The sound brought back memories.
@@TheJunky228 From what I remember many of the titles were in a Scandinavian language, which makes it kind of hard but I'd include words like "fishing boat", "troller"(trollar"?), "Norwegian", "Danish", maybe "Swedish", "Norse", "Norsk", "traditional", "local", "restored", and "engine sound" since I believe one boat in particular is restored and known/"famous" for that. I wish that I could be of more help.
@@YesterdaysMachinery this stuff had beautiful shaped curved castings with designs and logos in it, even little pinstripes and dress up stuff like that. What a contrast to the stuff hidden under plastic covers today
0:54 - heating element for diesel motor 1:58 - fuel tank 2:30 - lubricater 10:18 - He slows it down 10:40 - 0 Rpms 10:50 - watching 2 stroke movement 13:22 - lubricater/Working parts 14:00 - shuts it down *you'll thank me later*
I've noticed that the old oily engines tend to last the longest. It seems that the better you are able to lubricate the engines, the longer they will last. I once had an old Honda that burned quite a bit of oil and leaked oil. It had 300K miles on it and ran like almost new. If it weren't for the smokescreen left behind at stoplights in the summertime, you would think it was a fairly new car. I ended up selling it (I regret this) so no idea of the fate of it.
Fantastic - I have just inherited about 15 smaller machine one comparable oil engine and a twin massive diesel lister - have 15 years of tinkering ahead of me.
@@1978garfield I’d love to but I’m too self conscious - I’ve only got two running but I hold great hopes for the two cylinder lister - a So the very large oil engine has a cracked head so that will be some job.
Super nice engine. A thing of beauty for sure. I love the sound these old huge single-cylinder engines make. This and the old hit/miss engines. They sure don't make them like this anymore. Thanks for sharing.
This is a cool and INTELAGENT video, why don't the corporate industries work at this level, ????? there's no over use or abuse of the earth, its man destroying you ability to work on and make viable technology.
I am having a lot of fun watching you work on all these old time engines. My Uncle had about 5 different 1 cylinder engines and we would play around with them. Your videos bring back such good memories. Thanks 👍🙏👍
Outstanding, thanks for the run and the walk round of the engine and its systems. I love these old engines, They run and run forever. Thank you for sharing, Bernie from England.
10:37 That old girl doesn't want to run at 0, she wants to WORK. Pretty awesome piece of machinery, and your cooling system is ingenious. Thanks for the video- I hope you turned a fan on! *cough* *cough*
after a really hard day of strategic problems, and multi year plans, so nice to see something start and finish in a few minutes !!! with such great sound and energy... love it !!
There is something functionally beautiful about such old tech, built to last, when you listen to them, they live and breathe, built rather like the steam engines that preceded them. Great content
i really wanna see the cooling tower in action. you sir, just gained a new sub i love old engines and the history behind them and why they were designed in the first place
When I was a kid (50yrs ago) my dad would bring these old hit-n-miss engines home from auctions, as a 10yr old I spent hours on these figuring them out, and getting them running THANKS FOR THE MEMORY!⁸
England. What a magnificent beast thank you so much for sharing it with us. I'm 74 and have exactly the same problem when I start my day. Zero RPM. A bit more coffee and wa hey. Sorry to mention a health thing but unburned oil is a tad harmful to the chest young fella. OK now and then perhaps.
Thank you! No it's not healty, but as you say it is not so often, so i think it is ok. Im glad to hear that there is people in England that enjoy coffee also. Cheers /Richard, Sweden.
See how our ancestors were smarts. Nothing todays is so simple and efficient and running with any kind of "fuel". I can watch these sorts of videos at any time, it is always of pleasure to see. Thanks for sharing your smoky engine. 1:45 pm french time is 13:45
Hi from Australia. Great video, you explanation while warming the bulb was excellent. Even I have a basic understanding of how it works now. Keep it running.
The best way of varying AC voltage 100 years ago was with a locked rotor slip-ring motor whose rotor position could be varied by the angle of a single pole of the windings
@@TheJunky228 not really, its just a physical principle. the human arm also produces the most torque at zero. cumbustard failgens just so happen to stall at zero.
Thanks for sharing ,that amazing engine Today's manufacturing should take a look at themselves for making such junk nowadays everything throw away. i seen an engine built in the 1800's, a hot air engine with a piston that was about 2feet across was a giant water pump amazing throw in a couple of sheets of newspaper spin the giant flywheel and away it goes for about 2 hours on that little bit of paper then you just add a couple more sheets of paper and repeat until the day of pumping is over and it still runs today
Saw a hit or miss engine just running in a corner at the international ag expo a few years back. Damn thing was only firing about twelve times a minute but it was maintaining a solid two thousand rpm's, the flywheel was unstoppable. I imediatly fell in love with the drip carburetor. I'd love to hook up some old gear like this to a modern generator.
This is what Fathers usually showed there kids, atleast my dad went always with me to one of those yearly one day with all those really old engines, i loved it to just watch and stare to these engines running, things about it is just so satisfying, especially that combustion sound!.
Safety shields? We ain't got no safety shields! We don't need no stinking safety shields! :-) AWESOME video! Remember seeing these run in the oil fields, like someone else noted. Thanks for the work keeping this dinosaur alive.
I think they are called "Glühkopf-motoren" in germany wich translates to "glowing-head-engine". Saw one of those like 10 years ago in a museum in bavaria on a school trip.
I have never seen one before, but I believe I can add one more language to the list: Kuulamoottori. That is Finnish. The "moottori" of course stands for "motor". The "Kuula" refers to the iron balls that once were used as shots in the old artillery guns The more present translation for the "kuula" is a bullet.
Extremely cool!!! That thing will rip both of your arms clean off and not even slow down a single revolution. Definitely a wonderful old girl that will immediately punish any lapse of judgement or disrespect. The leather reeds are very neat.
All the preppers freaking out about the EMP from an atomic bomb. This engine "EMP? Never met her. Outta my way, I got work to do." Mushroom cloud rises in background, engine continues working.
@@extractorfan2143 true modern engines are built to be efficient Lmao. Try throwing something like this in a car or truck. You’ll have a hell of a time getting it to fit, and an even worse time trying to make any decent amount of power.
Cool. Apocalyptic machine that can help rebuild civilization as it dont run on much. Cool. Cheers from Toledo Ohio, home of Jeep, Champion spark plug and Dana Axles. We have alot of history similar to this genius mechanical engineering, so i appreciate it 🙏
At the yachting club my parents belonged to there was a man who had an old converted fishing boat with a hot bulb engine. Fascinating tech, will run on almost anything combustible and reasonably liquid. But it certainly takes time to get it started. The bulb cover had this little window where you could see that the blowtorch was burning and when the bulb was really red hot he kicked the flywheel to start the engine. You have to make sure you kick the wheel in the right direction as the engine will happily run in either direction. This can be both a good and a bad thing, but mainly you need to know which direction you started it in.
This engine could be setup for some neat projects like powering the worlds largest clock, sawing logs, water pump etc. Very neat and first time I ever saw this engine. thanks for the video!
Sadly about the same time the scrap yards stopped selling to non commercial clients. Used to most place were glad to sell to you from the pile if you would pay more than scrap. Now I see cool stuff that is worth money (saw a few phone booths a few years ago) but they don't want the hassle of selling to individuals. Those phone booths probably came back as beer cans or razor blades depending on what they were made of.
@@1978garfield As a kid we used to drive through the local scrap yard once a week to see what we could pull off the pile. I bought a mini bike frame with no motor one week and an old briggs tiller the next and had a running mini bike for less than $50.
According to Pytagoras (Factory museum), this zero rpm was a common idle setting for this type of engines. Particular when installed in boats. Having the propeller going back and fouth in the water.
Maybe it's just to keep fuel consumption to a minimum enough to sustain life and not have to go thru the whole starting process again ? Maybe one of a few reasons, but I'm guessing.
@@MrTheHillfolk As it was explained to me the boats dont have a cluthc so if the engine is running the ships had the propeller turning. But if it was ideling at 0rpm:s the propeller didnt move the ship.
@@MaskinJunior Exactly, plus it kept the hot bulb hot. To reverse you reverse the engine. Large container ships and the like are also direct drive but they switch the valve timing and use compressed air to restart the engine each direction change.
@@alwaysbearded1 depends on how large ships. I used to work at a foundry that made propellers where you changed the pitch of the propeller to change the speed of the ship. I think those ships has constant speed on the prop-shaft and does not reverse on the main props.
@@MaskinJunior I should have qualified size. I'm thinking of the large container ships I have to dodge when I sail. But at least they have tugs in the estuary where we have to share close quarters. The smaller ships and tugs just have regular transmissions. Some might have variable pitch props where you can reverse the blades to go in reverse while the shaft still turns one way. I don't know which have which I just stay out of the way!
The old Marshall & Fowler tractors were the same. 2 stroke. Sometimes they started backwards, when started on a cartridge. Driver got on, engaged forward gear & went out through the back of the shed.....1 forward & 3 reverse gears!
Those old engines are so cool. I would love to have one just to fire it up once in a while and listen to it run. That engine you have is so well tuned to be able to run that slow.
I work on a lot more complex machinery, and I enjoy figuring out complex problems most of the time, but sometimes I think I was born about a hundred years too late. I think I would have enjoyed working on machinery like that much more. But then again who knows, no antibiotics then, I might have died from a bad tooth or something in my early 30's
@@Einwetok lots of trade-offs. Potentially a shorter life span on the downside. Although being able to work on machines that are actually designed to be serviced, and aren't full of black boxes that the manufacturer won't release any service information for, and being able to make your own replacement parts out of locally available materials with hand tools and a few simple machine tools, not to mention no over complication due to government regulations,,, I guess I'm looking at all this with 60 year old eyes in 2021, but somehow giving up some years of life in order not to have to deal with miles of red tape and paperwork, and being able to make almost all my own parts without being looked at like a time-wasting idiot seems like it would be worth it
On one hand you are right, a lot of stuff nowadays wont last that long. On the other hand, how many of these engines are still being used? And i dont mean functional, i mean actively being used for stuff. If a product will be replaced by better and more efficient technologies every few years anyways, why bother spending money and recources on making it last way longer than that? Instead we should focus on how we can recycle the things we discard so often, taking the recources and using them in new products.
I have seen this same phenomenon in a Cox .049 cu in. model glow plug engine when using a propeller that is a bit too big for the engine! At low throttle setting the prop oscillates back and forth and the engine makes a very strange "buzzing" sound too!....Fantastic!
I rather enjoyed how it was explained. I have plenty of attention span to survive. lol. great view of antique tech. just think.of how many failures and planning till this engine didn't tie up with friction. the stroke length alone is impressive. stroke moves things,
Its amazing because even though the engine is basically bulletproof, someone not knowing the engine could easily hurt it. In todays start and go, no one has the knowledge of what makes this simple run. Burns a little oil (lol) but it's old enough to smoke!
And people think of fuel injection as a recent thing. This is fascinating, I love these old motors. They used to have old engine shows but that was long ago here. Thank you TH-cam for bringing this history to life.
Still perfect for off-grid power generation. 4:1 speed stepup through an old diff should be close enough to 1500r\min. Use up old engine and chip oil..…
Awesome, I had no idea they had reed valves back then ! Just wish I could smell the scent of the workshop, I can remember as a child the smell of my Dads tractor running on TVO !
Wikipedia quote: "All two-stroke diesel engines require artificial aspiration to operate, and will either use a mechanically driven blower or a turbo-compressor to charge the cylinder with air." Apparently the Wikipedia author has never seen a Beijer engine! Great video!
@@kn4dgs This is specific to 2 stroke diesels and it is true here. In this case the crank case and piston movement are used to move the intake air into the cylinder. That's why the leather reed valve is there.
@@Graham_Langley Yes, you are certainly correct and I stand corrected. This engine does burn diesel as well as a variety of other fuels and the hot bulb allows it to operate with lower compression than a conventional diesel engine...I assume. However, Wartsilla-Sulzer engines are multi-cylinder diesel compression engines and, although they are often turbocharged, many are naturally aspirated due to their design with two-piece connecting rod with upper rod segment that passes through a gland with seal in the bottom of a bottle-shaped cylinder.
@@Melanie16040 Your point is well taken that the piston is, in effect, the induction mechanism. And this engine is actually a fairly conventional, single-stroke, reed valve engine, except most reed valves are metallic, not leather. My comment was a snipe against Wikipedia and their statement specifically about the requirement for "blower" or "supercharger".
I stepped away from the video just as he was starting it, and came back to find the room filled with smoke and the guy missing. He obviously died from carbon monoxide poisoning, right?
That is one special piece of history . sure is a lot of things operating . great toy .. and super demonstration of excellent engineering many years ago .
So cool, this is exactly the content you watch all of at 4:30 AM for no reason.
Even better than Memes 😅
Currently watching at 4:02 am
Wow haha currently 0408 Uk time 😂
9:13pm, I'm old :D
4:46am 🤦🏻♂️😒
My father was a mechanic for 57 years... i told him i have seen an engine running at 0 RPM.... "IMPOSSIBLE," he says as we banter, i show him this, he says, "that is 0 rpm! I forgot about these, i worked on one during my apprenticeship", then he also told me about the time he started a Field Marshall.... with a shotgun shell.... Thank you for this, very good content made my dad remember some old times and tell me some great stories. Australia had to import everything at the time my dad started as a mechanic. He just turned 70 this year and was working at 11 years old with my grandfather in his service station. He said "I never want to smell f *&king engine oil again". Also said they could run this engine on whale oil.... and did.
Many WW2 aero engines had a cartridge starter (Coffman). Many needed one cartridge to clear the engine (ignition off) then one to start with ignition on. If it failed to start, you'd often have the engine on fire so make sure you know your mixture settings. :)
Grouse story.
Grouse story - the stationary engines I’ve inherited where left on the farm of a tractor/engine collector mechanic which I bought in Vic.
@@rupert5390 make some vids of them.
Nice one is also starting a engine with a engine (pony motor) with big CAT engine in the 60s/70s
This is one of those cool things you see late at night deep in the TH-cam rabbit hole and think "I could use one of those in my workshop". What for? You ask. "What do you mean what for? To run it, of course."
Just look at it, run it, complain its taking up to much space, look at it again.
Seems pretty good
of course!
I'm gonna change your statement a little with my case :D This is one of those cool things you see late at night deep in the TH-cam rabbit hole and think "I'm just gonna watch this one more and go to sleep, tomorrow is a working day" and A few moments later is 4 in the morning and in two hours you need to go to work...
This is so true!
"What for?"
Well, to hook up to a fan to exhaust all these fumes obviously.
I'm here... not sure why but glad I am. Very interesting sir!
Me too!
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Here* probably wondered why you were in school too huh
Mr O. Glad to hear you're making an appearance
Ayyyy it's Dr. O! Fancy seeing you here! 😺 This ain't no Chevy Thunder or Hondoo, and it sure does make more smoke than the Avoca Smokah. 😸
This is what people in 1928 heard when they started the engine as well. I love hearing the sounds of old engines, it's like time traveling.
I actually used to work on engines like this in the oilfield, they powered the pumpjacks. Thought it was pretty awesome that they were entirely self sufficient as they ran on the natural gas that came out of the well they were pumping. A few of them were converted to use crude oil to lube bearings, they tied into the oil tank and used a float valve to keep a small tank filled. The apocalypse could come and go while these guys just keep chugging along indefinitely. Ajax compressors are sort of a modernized version of this, but the air (natural gas) start system was so much fun to kick over and watch smoke billowing from a 16" stack.
Thanks for sharing your story 😊 Yes, smart thing to run on natural gas when it alredy exists!
I love the self sufficient oil wells.
There is a well maintenance guy who posts videos of them on YT.
I can't think of his name but I love his videos.
All the wells in my area have been converted to electric.
Not nearly as much fun to watch.
@@1978garfield Yeah, most of them out here are electric. I'm right in the middle of the West Texas desert, and ironically there's a forest's worth of utility poles, which sucks because I have to fly under all of those wires. Once free flowing stops, a fracked well starts off with an electric submersible pump, then to a long stroke (hydraulic/electric, usually), and finally to a conventional pumpjack. Most of the newer wells will more than likely never be combustion driven since there's already power on site, but on rare occasions you get a unique well that has tons of gas available compared to oil and water. It's more economical and productive to use a compressor and inject that gas back into the well for artificial lift, most of those operate on natural gas too. It's quite a different animal from the old hit and miss style single cylinder engines sputtering away all day and night, they sound much more like a diesel engine when running, a nice steady hum. Of course they're also computer controlled and fully automated, so when they go down you're out there sometimes for hours getting it started again, and they go down for silly stuff all the time. They just don't have the same kind of charisma and character that those old putt putt motors do.
@@Skinflaps_Meatslapper
Hmmm, maybe after the big freeze...
there might be more engines that run when electrickery doesn't flow....
@Maikro Wavee
Obviously for the purposes of these simple engines...
the oil only runs out when the engine stops.......
unless the rod goes through the block, in which case the oil runs out faster....
and it definitely comes to an end then.
Schrödinger's engine, it's running and not running at the same time!😂
Great comment!!!!
Ironically, it was built before cats were required!
@@whitesapphire5865 HAHA, cats!! That better than my comment!😂😂.
So the Swedes were building quantum engines long time ago😆
@@domminion599 But....... Were it not for your comment in the first place, mine would have no reason to exist
Rpm: 0
Torque: Yes
When you need to pull that tank out of the mud
Usefulness : 0
This thing has tons of torque. Since it’s a 2 stroke it’ll run in reverse as well.
@@9crutnacker985 Untrue - with the appropriate belt drive ratio you can run all manner of equipment off of an engine like this (pumps, sawmills, grain threshing & milling, engineering equipment etc etc). Indeed, in the event of a global disaster such as a killshot solar storm, or nuke war, these may be the ONLY kind of engines that are still usable.
@@boydw1 Not at oscillating 'zero' RPM it's not.
We used to do this with R/C airplane 2-stroke engines; the propeller would just flip back and forth, but they'd run like that if the needle valve was low enough. Really cool, thanks for sharing!!
Thanks! Yes a RC engine with glow plug is very simular to this engine so i can se why 🙂
I would get this from my Cox .049 trying to get a homemade 18" blade to spin in hopes of making a helicopter when I was 10 years old.......the stupid things we do as kids..... still have my fingers and that engine...lol
As a diesel mechanic this is by far one of the coolest engines I've seen!
"Sure honey, I'll start the car.(.an hour later: ) "ok , ready to go"?
Do you want this engine to run forwards or backwards?
*YES*
So what do you do when you get it going and it fires off in the opposite direction you need it to go?
@@routtookc8064 *run*
@@routtookc8064 turn it down to 0 rpm and then try to increase the rpm at the right moment? I guess.
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@@routtookc8064 Shut her down and spin her opposite!
Zero RPM, one step forward one step back, one step forward one step back, story of my life , oh well at least the washings getting done !!
you're not alone my dear life hitchhiker, yeah well at least the washings getting done !! Well said !!
@@NenadKralj But I think your comment really is a reference to the lyrics of Substitute by The Who. "I'm a substitute for another guy
I look pretty tall but my heels are high
The simple things you see are all complicated
I look pretty young, but I'm just back-dated, yeah
Substitute you for my Mum; at least I'll get my washing done.....
that's not even technically zero RPM tho
it's not zero well you add both forward and back to get the RPM there's no negative value for RPM
@@Johnny-tq9no You know what a revolution is don't you
I used to think old stuff was boring and stupid. Now the older I get the more impressed I am with what people have achieved in the past.
Thanks for taking the time to explain the function and operation to start and run this engine. The principle is so simple. I find these old engines hypnotic and fascinating, especially zero rpm.
Truly amazing what they made back in the day. Incredible manufacturing,lasts forever.
When I first read this, I was like zero rpm? Is he crazy? Now I get it.
It's bollox really although it'd be interesting to know what speed it does actually do ! It needs a tacho mark at BDC and count the marks over 2 minutes to get RPM
It is a really cool engine though and I would like to see what the lowest rpm that it can truly achieve.
@@LichaelMewis I didn't watch the video as I've seen a video of another tractor engine 'running' like that.
Being a diesel, it's lowest RPM won't be as low as a petrol engine. A petrol engine can be started by a spark but diesels need a fresh compression of air (which heats it) for ignition.
Same. Then I was like "I see what you did there" lol technically the engine speed can still be measured as rpm, it's just changing directions.
@@c117ls7 If you measure the rotation speed over 90° and multiply by 4, you get rpm without needin a full revolution.
Just a mild revolt will suffice ;)
Never heard of a zero rpm motor and now I have seen one. Excellent vid. Thank you for the upload as I learnt something new, well old yet new to me lol
I’m a Brit living in Romania, and occasionally, in rural areas, you’ll see one of these mounted on a self-propelled saw-bench, with a couple of guys taking it to the next job, to cut lumber from whole felled trees.
They’re beasts of an engine, so much power from a single cylinder. You can hear them coming from several hundred meters. 🤣❤️👍🏻🇷🇴🇬🇧
It's the same type of engine used in my late great uncle's fishing boat on the island of Flekefjord in Norway 🇳🇴
My grandfather had a big 30 liter single cylinder engine in his old fishing boat. Took 1 hour to start. Blew nice black and blue smoke rigns out the stack. Sounded a bit like this, only it ran really slow on idle. I don't remember the make of the engine, but it was made in Norway in the late 20's. Great video. The sound brought back memories.
There are some of those floating and running around here on TH-cam. They have a very distinct sound that fits in very well with the bays and fjords.
@@lt1nut do you have a searchable term for this?
@@TheJunky228
From what I remember many of the titles were in a Scandinavian language, which makes it kind of hard but I'd include words like "fishing boat", "troller"(trollar"?), "Norwegian", "Danish", maybe "Swedish", "Norse", "Norsk", "traditional", "local", "restored", and "engine sound" since I believe one boat in particular is restored and known/"famous" for that.
I wish that I could be of more help.
Back in the day, this was probably high tech. I wonder what the designers of it would think of today's "engines".
They sure where proud of their work back then.
@@YesterdaysMachinery this stuff had beautiful shaped curved castings with designs and logos in it, even little pinstripes and dress up stuff like that.
What a contrast to the stuff hidden under plastic covers today
@@MrTheHillfolk oh, and dont forget the phrase "built to last"
*Slams fists down on desk*
5,000 rpms!!!! That's three too many zeros!!
@@HvV8446
No bout adout it 😁
0:54 - heating element for diesel motor
1:58 - fuel tank
2:30 - lubricater
10:18 - He slows it down
10:40 - 0 Rpms
10:50 - watching 2 stroke movement
13:22 - lubricater/Working parts
14:00 - shuts it down
*you'll thank me later*
Yes! Thanks!
Danke bitte schon
Thank you so much! I was skipping around saying none of this is 0 rpm
0 RPM also 11:32
I've noticed that the old oily engines tend to last the longest. It seems that the better you are able to lubricate the engines, the longer they will last. I once had an old Honda that burned quite a bit of oil and leaked oil. It had 300K miles on it and ran like almost new. If it weren't for the smokescreen left behind at stoplights in the summertime, you would think it was a fairly new car. I ended up selling it (I regret this) so no idea of the fate of it.
Probably some kid driving the shit out of it lmao I did this to my 400k km civic
I come back to this video every couple months, always interesting
I would love to see it with the cooling tower in action.
Saaaaaaaame
Fantastic - I have just inherited about 15 smaller machine one comparable oil engine and a twin massive diesel lister - have 15 years of tinkering ahead of me.
You should post videos.
@@1978garfield I’d love to but I’m too self conscious - I’ve only got two running but I hold great hopes for the two cylinder lister - a
So the very large oil engine has a cracked head so that will be some job.
Super nice engine. A thing of beauty for sure. I love the sound these old huge single-cylinder engines make. This and the old hit/miss engines. They sure don't make them like this anymore. Thanks for sharing.
This is a cool and INTELAGENT video, why don't the corporate industries work at this level, ?????
there's no over use or abuse of the earth, its man destroying you ability to work on and make viable technology.
I am having a lot of fun watching you work on all these old time engines. My Uncle had about 5 different 1 cylinder engines and we would play around with them. Your videos bring back such good memories. Thanks 👍🙏👍
Thanks! I bet that's good memories. /Richard
Somewhere in my head an idea is starting to form, sounding something like, "how to turn a rotary saw, into a very slow reciprocating saw."
That's how bone saws work
Outstanding, thanks for the run and the walk round of the engine and its systems. I love these old engines, They run and run forever. Thank you for sharing, Bernie from England.
10:37 That old girl doesn't want to run at 0, she wants to WORK. Pretty awesome piece of machinery, and your cooling system is ingenious. Thanks for the video- I hope you turned a fan on! *cough* *cough*
Talk about dying from secondhand smoke!
after a really hard day of strategic problems, and multi year plans, so nice to see something start and finish in a few minutes !!! with such great sound and energy... love it !!
Lol I love how you refer to this as a "little engine". I wish I had some cool old stuff like this to play with
Old engines are engineering marvels. A simple concept but complex and precise to make it breath. Thanks for sharing.
"Zero RPM" is at 11:32 in the video. With the piston rocking back and forth, the engine is at basically net zero RPM. Pretty cool.
The piston _always_ rocks back and forth. What makes it zero RPM is the _flywheel_ rocking back and forth.
@@xenaguy01 If the piston doesn’t make a complete revolution, it’s at zero RPM. Same as the flywheel.
There is something functionally beautiful about such old tech, built to last, when you listen to them, they live and breathe, built rather like the steam engines that preceded them. Great content
Yes, i think so too 🙂
That engine is so cool. That will still be working after we’re all gone. Thank you for sharing your engine !😊
i really wanna see the cooling tower in action. you sir, just gained a new sub i love old engines and the history behind them and why they were designed in the first place
When I was a kid (50yrs ago) my dad would bring these old hit-n-miss engines home from auctions, as a 10yr old I spent hours on these figuring them out, and getting them running THANKS FOR THE MEMORY!⁸
reminds me of the old Lanz Bulldog. Very cool engines and build to last forever.
Well covered vid of this old grandad engine with lots of character. Nicely maintained Well done!
England. What a magnificent beast thank you so much for sharing it with us. I'm 74 and have exactly the same problem when I start my day. Zero RPM. A bit more coffee and wa hey.
Sorry to mention a health thing but unburned oil is a tad harmful to the chest young fella. OK now and then perhaps.
Thank you! No it's not healty, but as you say it is not so often, so i think it is ok.
Im glad to hear that there is people in England that enjoy coffee also. Cheers /Richard, Sweden.
See how our ancestors were smarts. Nothing todays is so simple and efficient and running with any kind of "fuel". I can watch these sorts of videos at any time, it is always of pleasure to see. Thanks for sharing your smoky engine. 1:45 pm french time is 13:45
Hi from Australia.
Great video, you explanation while warming the bulb was excellent.
Even I have a basic understanding of how it works now.
Keep it running.
A modern day servo motor will run at full torque, “locked rotor”, at zero rpm. Love this old technology.
steam engine has full torque at 0 rpm
The best way of varying AC voltage 100 years ago was with a locked rotor slip-ring motor whose rotor position could be varied by the angle of a single pole of the windings
@@Jeanie363034 electric motor does as well
@@Blox117 whats old is new again
@@TheJunky228 not really, its just a physical principle. the human arm also produces the most torque at zero. cumbustard failgens just so happen to stall at zero.
I love old antique equipment like this, the engineering that had to go into this without any computer controls or tech that we're so used to nowadays.
Yes me too! Always works better without electronics.
Cute pfp.
Thanks for sharing ,that amazing engine
Today's manufacturing should take a look at themselves for making such junk nowadays everything throw away.
i seen an engine built in the 1800's, a hot air engine with a piston that was about 2feet across was a giant water pump amazing throw in a couple of sheets of newspaper spin the giant flywheel and away it goes for about 2 hours on that little bit of paper then you just add a couple more sheets of paper and repeat until the day of pumping is over and it still runs today
Sounds like a lovely machine!
Saw a hit or miss engine just running in a corner at the international ag expo a few years back. Damn thing was only firing about twelve times a minute but it was maintaining a solid two thousand rpm's, the flywheel was unstoppable. I imediatly fell in love with the drip carburetor. I'd love to hook up some old gear like this to a modern generator.
This is what Fathers usually showed there kids, atleast my dad went always with me to one of those yearly one day with all those really old engines, i loved it to just watch and stare to these engines running, things about it is just so satisfying, especially that combustion sound!.
Yes! Just sit and watch and listen.
@@YesterdaysMachinery Exactly :)
i had to watch this again ...keep these videos coming .
Hi mate. I sure will try! /Richard
Holy shit. I'd lose months of my life playing with that.
Yes, its is like a drug.
Is it losing when you actually have fun doing it? I think not :)
Beats the hell out of losing it on wastehook and twatter 😉
I cant wait to see the cooling system hooked up
I am AMAZED and the knowledge the old folks had before electronics...Thank you for showing us this, very very much amused and delighted to see this.
Thankyou for explaining the functions of this beast!! It’s amazing how this thing is designed.
Thanks 😊
The Lanz Bulldog tractors were able to run at zero RPM as well (also a hot bulb-type engine).
The Lanz Bulldog will run 0 rpm until the hot bulb becomes too cold for ignition to occur.
What a wonderful engine, I could listen to that, all day long. Thank you for sharing it.
You are welcome 🙂
Thanks for including a tour of the engines as well as the start. Greets form Norway!
Safety shields? We ain't got no safety shields! We don't need no stinking safety shields! :-) AWESOME video! Remember seeing these run in the oil fields, like someone else noted. Thanks for the work keeping this dinosaur alive.
Thee coolest deisel engine ive ever seen...
You could run pumps, mills, drills, blades, crushers, generators...most impressive! Gteat video, Thanks
Thank you 😊
I think they are called "Glühkopf-motoren" in germany wich translates to "glowing-head-engine". Saw one of those like 10 years ago in a museum in bavaria on a school trip.
Yep thats true 🙂
It's gloeikopmotor in Dutch, so the same I guess. In English they call it a hot-bulb engine it seems. I want one.
I have never seen one before, but I believe I can add one more language to the list: Kuulamoottori. That is Finnish. The "moottori" of course stands for "motor". The "Kuula" refers to the iron balls that once were used as shots in the old artillery guns The more present translation for the "kuula" is a bullet.
@@InssiAjaton well the hot bulb at the end of this machine does look a bit similar to a cannonball, so I guess that makes sense.
@@InssiAjaton Tändkulemotor is the Swedish name. "Tänd" is Ignition, "Kule" is bulb or ball and "Motor" is as you probably guessed Engine.
I understand perfectly. That's exactly how I operate first thing in the morning...ZERO RPM!
This is how you operate when you wake up with morning wood!
This engine inspired VW Diesel's emissions specs !
Lol
If only it inspired Ford reliability…
Extremely cool!!! That thing will rip both of your arms clean off and not even slow down a single revolution. Definitely a wonderful old girl that will immediately punish any lapse of judgement or disrespect. The leather reeds are very neat.
Simultaneously poetic and mesmerising in equal measure!! A joy to watch, thank you.
These engines will keep man alive when the zombie apocalypse happens. . I love these old engines have with stand the test of time
All the preppers freaking out about the EMP from an atomic bomb.
This engine "EMP? Never met her. Outta my way, I got work to do."
Mushroom cloud rises in background, engine continues working.
not really lol these engines have very limited usefulness and in a zombie apocalypse there would be plenty of easier fuels and engines
@@Johnny-tq9no these could be adapted to do anything in my opinion
@@netten9432 yup
@@1978garfield More Zombies just means more fuel!
Old motors are so cool. Last 100 years or more years. Today's motors you're lucky to get 10 years out of them.
Idk if this engine is used as much as modern engines
Yeah but a modern engine does so much more work in a thousand different environments, all in a compact size.
True modern engines are not built to last
@@extractorfan2143 true modern engines are built to be efficient Lmao. Try throwing something like this in a car or truck. You’ll have a hell of a time getting it to fit, and an even worse time trying to make any decent amount of power.
This engine is excellent. I would use one for a sawmill.
Greetings from Kansas, USA.
Yes it truly is. I have a 35hp in my sawmill. Works fantasticly well!
@@YesterdaysMachinery trying the 0rpm to avoid a crankshaft using a saw blade?
Cool. Apocalyptic machine that can help rebuild civilization as it dont run on much. Cool. Cheers from Toledo Ohio, home of Jeep, Champion spark plug and Dana Axles. We have alot of history similar to this genius mechanical engineering, so i appreciate it 🙏
At the yachting club my parents belonged to there was a man who had an old converted fishing boat with a hot bulb engine. Fascinating tech, will run on almost anything combustible and reasonably liquid. But it certainly takes time to get it started. The bulb cover had this little window where you could see that the blowtorch was burning and when the bulb was really red hot he kicked the flywheel to start the engine.
You have to make sure you kick the wheel in the right direction as the engine will happily run in either direction. This can be both a good and a bad thing, but mainly you need to know which direction you started it in.
This machine is genuinely beautiful. I'd love to build something like that
Being a two stroke engine, I presume that it can run in either direction? Great video. I love these old engines!
Correct! Thanks you!
Yep, it does in the video.
Music can listen all day long REGARDS Ziggy
The title and thumbnail pic brought me here, and I'm glad it did! Cool engine bro 👍
This engine could be setup for some neat projects like powering the worlds largest clock, sawing logs, water pump etc. Very neat and first time I ever saw this engine. thanks for the video!
Yup, I want one. A few years ago the price of scrap iron hit a new high and all of the cool old stuff around here disappeared.
Sadly about the same time the scrap yards stopped selling to non commercial clients.
Used to most place were glad to sell to you from the pile if you would pay more than scrap.
Now I see cool stuff that is worth money (saw a few phone booths a few years ago) but they don't want the hassle of selling to individuals.
Those phone booths probably came back as beer cans or razor blades depending on what they were made of.
@@1978garfield As a kid we used to drive through the local scrap yard once a week to see what we could pull off the pile. I bought a mini bike frame with no motor one week and an old briggs tiller the next and had a running mini bike for less than $50.
According to Pytagoras (Factory museum), this zero rpm was a common idle setting for this type of engines. Particular when installed in boats. Having the propeller going back and fouth in the water.
Maybe it's just to keep fuel consumption to a minimum enough to sustain life and not have to go thru the whole starting process again ?
Maybe one of a few reasons, but I'm guessing.
@@MrTheHillfolk As it was explained to me the boats dont have a cluthc so if the engine is running the ships had the propeller turning. But if it was ideling at 0rpm:s the propeller didnt move the ship.
@@MaskinJunior Exactly, plus it kept the hot bulb hot. To reverse you reverse the engine. Large container ships and the like are also direct drive but they switch the valve timing and use compressed air to restart the engine each direction change.
@@alwaysbearded1 depends on how large ships. I used to work at a foundry that made propellers where you changed the pitch of the propeller to change the speed of the ship. I think those ships has constant speed on the prop-shaft and does not reverse on the main props.
@@MaskinJunior I should have qualified size. I'm thinking of the large container ships I have to dodge when I sail. But at least they have tugs in the estuary where we have to share close quarters. The smaller ships and tugs just have regular transmissions. Some might have variable pitch props where you can reverse the blades to go in reverse while the shaft still turns one way. I don't know which have which I just stay out of the way!
seems like when she gets nice and hot you might be able to shift it over to water injection and run it as a steam engine. great video. thanks.
Early hot bulbs actually had water injection because the hot bulb often overheated. But then they build a better system.
Thanks!
The old Marshall & Fowler tractors were the same. 2 stroke. Sometimes they started backwards, when started on a cartridge. Driver got on, engaged forward gear & went out through the back of the shed.....1 forward & 3 reverse gears!
Those old engines are so cool. I would love to have one just to fire it up once in a while and listen to it run. That engine you have is so well tuned to be able to run that slow.
I work on a lot more complex machinery, and I enjoy figuring out complex problems most of the time, but sometimes I think I was born about a hundred years too late. I think I would have enjoyed working on machinery like that much more.
But then again who knows, no antibiotics then, I might have died from a bad tooth or something in my early 30's
Well I guess many of us think the same way. Have nice day Joe
Good point about an early death, which was much more likely back in the "good old days".
Fewer vaccines then too. Then again, no fallout from all those tests and meltdowns yet either.
@@Einwetok lots of trade-offs. Potentially a shorter life span on the downside. Although being able to work on machines that are actually designed to be serviced, and aren't full of black boxes that the manufacturer won't release any service information for, and being able to make your own replacement parts out of locally available materials with hand tools and a few simple machine tools, not to mention no over complication due to government regulations,,,
I guess I'm looking at all this with 60 year old eyes in 2021, but somehow giving up some years of life in order not to have to deal with miles of red tape and paperwork, and being able to make almost all my own parts without being looked at like a time-wasting idiot seems like it would be worth it
sometimes I think the food we are sold can kill.us. yes, people died of simple things "back then" but now we have 50 cancers
Over 100 years of faithful service. The same can’t be said for much of anything produced these days.
On one hand you are right, a lot of stuff nowadays wont last that long. On the other hand, how many of these engines are still being used? And i dont mean functional, i mean actively being used for stuff. If a product will be replaced by better and more efficient technologies every few years anyways, why bother spending money and recources on making it last way longer than that? Instead we should focus on how we can recycle the things we discard so often, taking the recources and using them in new products.
Really cool, I love those old engines
This is the content that should be uploaded this days.
Great job! I love that engine
I have seen this same phenomenon in a Cox .049 cu in. model glow plug engine when using a propeller that is a bit too big for the engine! At low throttle setting the prop oscillates back and forth and the engine makes a very strange "buzzing" sound too!....Fantastic!
I run my LS for 5 seconds with no water I get scared. this man runs this engine with no coolant for minutes.
Probably has to run for a week to get to temperature anyway.
He starts it at 8:00 btw and 11:23 for 0 rpm
You should watch the whole video, you don't deserve to see this thing run at 0 rpm unless you respect it.
Exactly, this video is lengthy for a good reason - it's very informative.
I rather enjoyed how it was explained. I have plenty of attention span to survive. lol. great view of antique tech.
just think.of how many failures and planning till this engine didn't tie up with friction. the stroke length alone is impressive. stroke moves things,
Haha ... built so well that they last for ever and run at O RPM ! Work Horses
Its amazing because even though the engine is basically bulletproof, someone not knowing the engine could easily hurt it. In todays start and go, no one has the knowledge of what makes this simple run. Burns a little oil (lol) but it's old enough to smoke!
And people think of fuel injection as a recent thing. This is fascinating, I love these old motors. They used to have old engine shows but that was long ago here. Thank you TH-cam for bringing this history to life.
Diesel engines have used this principle since their invention...
@@JohnSmith-yv6eq True and also regular gas motors often had direct injection, it splashed a dash of gas on the hot bulb as piston approached top.
Beautiful machine! Thanks for sharing!
Still perfect for off-grid power generation. 4:1 speed stepup through an old diff should be close enough to 1500r\min. Use up old engine and chip oil..…
I would love to Upgrade a Trabant, with one of these engines! - More environmentaly friendly, quieter, more powerfull and a smoother ride...
😂
@@andreaseriksson8803 Thank you Andreas, I'm pleased that you have full working knowledge of the Trabant! Mike
Awesome, I had no idea they had reed valves back then ! Just wish I could smell the scent of the workshop, I can remember as a child the smell of my Dads tractor running on TVO !
The sound reminded me of my air cooled Lister I had in my boat years ago, beautiful.
Wikipedia quote: "All two-stroke diesel engines require artificial aspiration to operate, and will either use a mechanically driven blower or a turbo-compressor to charge the cylinder with air." Apparently the Wikipedia author has never seen a Beijer engine! Great video!
That’s why you don’t trust wikipedia. Most diesel engines that were made before 1990 were naturally aspirated.
@@kn4dgs This is specific to 2 stroke diesels and it is true here. In this case the crank case and piston movement are used to move the intake air into the cylinder. That's why the leather reed valve is there.
But a hot bulb engine isn't a compression ignition engine like a Diesel.
@@Graham_Langley Yes, you are certainly correct and I stand corrected. This engine does burn diesel as well as a variety of other fuels and the hot bulb allows it to operate with lower compression than a conventional diesel engine...I assume. However, Wartsilla-Sulzer engines are multi-cylinder diesel compression engines and, although they are often turbocharged, many are naturally aspirated due to their design with two-piece connecting rod with upper rod segment that passes through a gland with seal in the bottom of a bottle-shaped cylinder.
@@Melanie16040 Your point is well taken that the piston is, in effect, the induction mechanism. And this engine is actually a fairly conventional, single-stroke, reed valve engine, except most reed valves are metallic, not leather. My comment was a snipe against Wikipedia and their statement specifically about the requirement for "blower" or "supercharger".
I stepped away from the video just as he was starting it, and came back to find the room filled with smoke and the guy missing. He obviously died from carbon monoxide poisoning, right?
no
Ask yourself why camera is still moving around. :-)
@@mrdummy_nl lol it was a joke
It would take a while for diesel fumes to do that haha
😂 this legit made me laugh.
That thing is a beast!!
Amazing to watch and just the mechanical therapy I needed on a Sunday morning with a coffee!
That is one special piece of history . sure is a lot of things operating . great toy .. and super demonstration of excellent engineering many years ago .