Could this be the engine that inspired the Changfa?

[AdeV]

Interesting photo album here. Try not to snigger at the name...

[bschwartz]

Too late!!!! My wife almost fell over laughing 

[deeiche]

those are definitely Deutz clones.

I'm pretty sure the Deutz is the inspiration for the Yanmar / Kubota singles, which the Chinese copied.  The Andoria is another Deutz clone.  The Indians have cloned the Andoria.  What would that be, Andoriod?  And there is a made in Pakistan changfa clone, from a company called Kam Engineering.

The other thing with the photo album is you can see the Brits did actually build things, instead of depending on Financial markets....

[rcavictim]

That factory has a ghost.  Clearly visible in the 12th picture from the end of the photo album.

[deeiche]

That factory has a ghost.  Clearly visible in the 12th picture from the end of the photo album.

The Ghost of Union Labour past?

[cognos]

The ghost of a sustainable economy for the middle class?  

Seriously - look at the amount of work going into these engines, look at the tooling, imagine the skills and the labour required! Not a "robot" or a CNC machine anywhere to be seen! They probably have their own delivery trucks and drivers!

Thanks, AdeV. Interesting.

[rcavictim]

The ghost of a sustainable economy for the middle class?  

Seriously - look at the amount of work going into these engines, look at the tooling, imagine the skills and the labour required! Not a "robot" or a CNC machine anywhere to be seen! They probably have their own delivery trucks and drivers!

Thanks, AdeV. Interesting.

No safety glasses on the machine operators either.  I saw one guy do as I do.  Get eye protection as a side benefit to having to wear correctional lenses.

Those engines were seriously well built and very heavy duty.  I am similarly impressed with the large engines that IHC made in the middle of the last century.  I have a 4 cylinder gasoline starting diesel TD-14 crawler engine which is about 480 cu.in.  It is a work of art.  The con rods are as long as my forearm to the elbow. 6-1/2" stroke and anbout 4-1/2" bore IIRC.  120 cu.in. per hole.  Redline is about 1400 RPM. It has 4 rod cap bolts on each crank end of the con rods. I really wish this engine was a single cylinder!  If so I'd be using it.  I have given thought to making a single out of it by pulling pistons out and putting heavy flywheels on it but that is too time consuming and I don't like the oversized 'Mickey Mouse' end product I'd have.

[cognos]

I didn't notice that... Ya, I've had to wear glasses since I was 5... I've always opted for "Safety Lenses" in my day-to-day eyewear... I've been whacked in the lens by some kind of high-speed otherwise blinding debris more than once... I don't even notice if someone in my workplace isn't wearing their safety glasses, I guess because it's not an extra for me, I assume everyone does it, so I don't look for it...

The current fashion in eyewear more closely resembles the gunslits on old tanks. Poor peripheral vision, and poor actual protection for one's eyes...

(I always questioned the requirement for operators wearing steel-toed work boots in refineries... what are they going to do after the explosion and fire - identify the body with toe prints? )

[vdubnut62]

Well where did all these obviously well-built engines simply evaporate to?  I would have thought at the very least someone here would
own a Uniporn, if only for names sake.

(yeah not only do I have porn, I have diesel porn!)

Sorry!- I did struggle with myself, but my baser instincts won out. Again.

Ron