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Oh my. I got a then already very old Russian compression ignition engine like this [0] as a child. It needed a mix of petroleum, aether and rhizinus oil and was
by jeffreygoesto 4y ago
Oh my. I got a then already very old Russian compression ignition engine like this [0] as a child. It needed a mix of petroleum, aether and rhizinus oil and was extremely hard to start. I did not have any spring or electrical starter and it took forever. Will never forget the sound and smell once it ran though.
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbureted_compression_ignition_model_engine https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbureted_compression_ignit...
- lproven 4y agoI had to Google it, so just FWIW, that is usually called "castor oil" in English. :-)
- jeffreygoesto 4y agoOh. Thank you, I did only check the direct translation indeed. Learned something today. :) That oil is for lubrication, the petroleum is the real, main fuel and the highly flammable aether is needed to be able to ignite at all at the comparably low temperatures you can produce with cranking. Too high compression and the first firing will see a too high counter force to continue, too little compression (that screw on top of the cylinder head) and it won't ignite...
- m4rtink 4y agoWe still had those at our aircraft model building club in the 90s as "that old thing" with the then new (at least for us) glow spark engines being all the rage. ;-)