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Donald Boyd
11-13-2002 10:06:02
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Re: Help! Big Buckeye Diesel Engine in reply to Eric Bloom, 12-30-1998 15:04:28
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I've been interested in the big engines since I was a small boy and accompanied my father to the Buckeye Machine Company where he worked. The horizontal engines common to this area were one or two cylinders and rated at 90 or 180 HP. They had hot bowl ignition and were started by injecting compressed air into the cylinder. Many of them were run on automotive oil drainings and required the pump and injector to be rebuilt every year due to the sulfuric acid in the oil. They were rugged engines and could stand a lot of abuse. If they were running under heavy load and started to ping, water could be applied through a nozzle in the intake manifold to control that condition. The vertical diesel engines were of a newer design and were built in 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,& 9 cylinder configurations, which required a specific camshaft,crankshaft & base for each engine. Each cylinder had a separate cylinder head. The engines, I believe, were built in Model #70,80 & 90. The Marine model was equipped with a reversing transmission on the camshaft, injection pump and auxiliary equipment so that the engine could be stopped and then reversed so that the propeller on the craft could be reversed. The starting operation was done by compressed air, and a controller, called the Silent Watchman, was used to put the air into the cylinders. The engines were sold to customers all over the world, and there are many probably being used today.
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