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Sharron

Sharron Report 23 Sep 2015 21:31

I couldn't find anything I wanted to watch tonight but was trawling through the programmes and, to my delight, I have found a programme about diesel engines.

If I had known then what I know now, I would have recorded it to watch again.

OH is watching football on whatever that little computer thing he has got is called.

Has anybody else found this brilliant programme about diesel engines?

Bobtanian

Bobtanian Report 23 Sep 2015 21:43

Thanks for that Sharron, I missed it too...........

Researching:
me and my darling wife at our wedding in 1960

Sharron

Sharron Report 23 Sep 2015 21:44

It's still on BBC4.

Weren't Deltics something else?

Bobtanian

Bobtanian Report 23 Sep 2015 21:45

BBC4?............snap LOL......................... it'll likely be on Iplayer

Bob

couldn't get my head around three crankshafts in unison!!!!

Researching:
me and my darling wife at our wedding in 1960

JoyBoroAngel

JoyBoroAngel Report 23 Sep 2015 21:49

I have an android box
You can watch millions of things on them

Even some films not out at the cinema yet :-D

Researching:
The birth of Middlesbrough

Sharron

Sharron Report 23 Sep 2015 21:57

Well, the combustion chamber was between two pistons.

I couldn't begin to imagine what the firing order might be.

There was a very good illustration on the programme.

If you just type 'Deltic Engine' there are some very good illustration.

LindainHerriotCountry

LindainHerriotCountry Report 23 Sep 2015 22:07

I watched it as well, it was very good

Bobtanian

Bobtanian Report 23 Sep 2015 22:09

LOL Sharron!

Researching:
me and my darling wife at our wedding in 1960

Sharron

Sharron Report 23 Sep 2015 22:11

I could never get the hang of the fluid flywheel. Might see if I can find an illustration of that.

Bobtanian

Bobtanian Report 23 Sep 2015 22:14

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3bj47TAYiU

Researching:
me and my darling wife at our wedding in 1960

Sharron

Sharron Report 23 Sep 2015 22:16

I did look at the fluid flywheel film and I still don't understand it.

Sharron

Sharron Report 24 Sep 2015 11:27

Well, I have been having girly thoughts all night and now I am really confused.

There will, I am sure, be somebody who knows about these things who can tell me.

Right, so there must be three crank shafts, so, are there three flywheels and how do you get three lots of power through one final drive?

Mayfield

Mayfield Report 24 Sep 2015 11:48

Search me I still can't figure out how a differential works!

Researching:
Moribus facit homo,

Sharron

Sharron Report 24 Sep 2015 11:55

Bevelled gears redirect the power but how the hell do you get the power from three cranks to join together.

Mayfield

Mayfield Report 24 Sep 2015 12:06

Well plenty of cranks in Parliament and they seem to manage! ;-)

Researching:
Moribus facit homo,

Dermot

Dermot Report 24 Sep 2015 12:13

Dirty diesel!

'Ayds' weight loss candy much advertised many years ago, Whatever happened to that product? :-S

Mayfield

Mayfield Report 24 Sep 2015 12:16

Interesting machine looking at some pics, but would the drive be rather like a crank shaft driving an OHC, but in this case three crank shafts say rotating clock wise would turn a centre cog anticlockwise. Or am I looking at it too simplistically. :-)

Researching:
Moribus facit homo,

Sharron

Sharron Report 24 Sep 2015 12:24

One is not rotating in the same direction as the other two.

Sorry Dermot, I don't understand your comments.

Sharron

Sharron Report 24 Sep 2015 12:32

Aha, I have found another diagram.

It looks like the power goes through the bottom crankshaft and the power from the other two is transferred to it by quite a complex system of gears.

Now I have solved that one I can get back to looking at things about fascinators and pink fluffy things again.

Mayfield

Mayfield Report 24 Sep 2015 12:37

Well the answer to the big question is 42 so that's not left us much to work on! :-D

Researching:
Moribus facit homo,

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