I use to work on those old Detroit 2 cycle diesel generators like the one in the video. Lots of smoke and pollution. The Suffolk county water Authority had a V16 2 cycle diesel at the old Brentwood pumping station. It had a 2’ diameter exhaust pipe sticking out of the control building. It would fill a foot ball field full of black smoke when it started up.
When I was a young child I the 1960s our family would visit my widowed grandmother. On her rural property was a joinery and woodworking shop my grandfather had built. Every machine in the shop was belt driven off a single wooden shaft that ran the entire length of the building. Outside was a large belt driven flywheel but the driving engine had been taken away. As kids we would wind up the flywheel by hand and take turns using the machines inside. Looking back we were lucky not to have lost a finger or two.
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My friend and employer had 18 or 20 of the old one cyl. farm engines. several different makers. All were cool old engines. One had five foot diameter flywheels. He called them “hit ‘n miss” engines.
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