The Catalina Island Thread

Eat two slices and call me in the morning...

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Originally Posted by 2manymustangs

Sweeeeeeeeeet.... I like to watch those big boys run, they are peak TQ at like 300-500 rpm :) like the Queen Mary mills...

Have you ever been in any OLD power plants where they have the OLD stationary engines sitting in moth balls??? There is a STRONG group of well connected collectors for those old single or double lung stationary diesel engines or compression engines... I had this one SOLD to a guy in South Dakota and my friend backed out because he got cold feet selling it for 30k...

I wonder how many times I could paddle a solo touring kayak around Catalina in a years time...



https://youtu.be/yqr5KxFC-vI

^^^ this ran a DC gen set and had large glass / lead / acid batteries to provide lighting in a clay pit/mine near St Louis...

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That's so super cool!! Question though, why so many lobes on the cam? Did they make one cam for several models?


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Originally Posted by Mrs.K034

That's so super cool!! Question though, why so many lobes on the cam? Did they make one cam for several models?


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It has something to do with how you start the engine, the tank on the back is a compressed air tank, there is a separate small HIT-NN-MISS gas engine with a antique air compressor that pumps up the tank, you pull a lever and move the cam followers off the primary run lobes (that actuates the valves and allows fuel to flow). SOme how there is a position where it opens valves and lets the engine spin free of compression... Pull the lever and then the intake and fuel metering valve starts to work... :)

It works pretty much like your new hemi.... Minus the blower.... :smilies_mit_hut019:

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Originally Posted by 2manymustangs

It has something to do with how you start the engine, the tank on the back is a compressed air tank, there is a separate small HIT-NN-MISS gas engine with a antique air compressor that pumps up the tank, you pull a lever and move the cam followers off the primary run lobes (that actuates the valves and allows fuel to flow). SOme how there is a position where it opens valves and lets the engine spin free of compression... Pull the lever and then the intake and fuel metering valve starts to work... :)

It works pretty much like your new hemi.... Minus the blower.... :smilies_mit_hut019:

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Awwww, ok! That make sense! Like a compression release on a four stroke when you release it to start the compression cycle?


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Originally Posted by 2manymustangs

Eat two slices and call me in the morning...

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What time should I call? [emoji23]

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Originally Posted by Mrs.K034

Awwww, ok! That make sense! Like a compression release on a four stroke when you release it to start the compression cycle?


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exxxxxxxachary... kinda... ;)

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Originally Posted by Hotboat

What time should I call? [emoji23]

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mmmmmmmmmmmmmm, my favorite food group!!!!!!!!!

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I'm out of places to eat here. I may take a boat to LBC eat dinner, then come back on the last boat LOL

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Originally Posted by Hotboat

I'm out of places to eat here. I may take a boat to LBC eat dinner, then come back on the last boat LOL

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might i suggest the fried squid and clam chowder at Berth 55 :D

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Originally Posted by 2manymustangs

might i suggest the fried squid and clam chowder at Berth 55 :D

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How about this??

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Same place different menu


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Originally Posted by Hotboat

How about this??

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Same place different menu


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The owner cracks me up... He said that his clam chowder is like drugs, he gives it for free the first time to some and they get hooked... :D

Im hooked but I didn't get it for free...