I expect simple behaviours here. Friendship, and love. Any advice should be from the perspective of the person asking, not the person giving! We have had to make new membership moderated to combat the huge number of spammers who register
And now a Bollinger engine... The lads will have fun with one of those, and Andrew is definitely showing his canal experience.
For the too lazy to Google, a Bollinger is usually a two stroke diesel, known as a hot bulb engine as you have to have a heat source to get combustion under way. A lot were fitted in the early days to canal boats in the UK. You don't stop one unless you really have to as restarting can take ten minutes - much fun can be had at the expense of officialdom who've often not met this type of engine before.
Not really, after all méthode champenoise is largely English. The French were trying to get rid of the pesky bubbles.
Back to the story, once they figure out how to run the engine, it ought to run just fine on filtered waste chip oil. They might be able to get this for free, Fish and Chip shops have to pay to dispose of used oil.
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I admit it. The method of starting a Bollinder is by heating the cylinder head using a blowlamp, but rather than taking the story further into the Not At All Likely by having such an item kicking around, I used some literary licence.
I have a 1930's Mayfield power plough with a two-stroke Diesel engine which uses an impregnated taper which, once glowing, is screwed into the top of the cylinder head to help ignite the fuel once compressed.
I also have a 4kVa generator powered by a Petter four-stroke diesel, and the only method to get the beast to fire, is by squirting engine oil into the fuel line hoping that friction and compression does the job, but the many cuts and bruises on my shins caused by the kick back from the crank handle pays witness to the fact that it isn't easy!