I Bet That Made A Bang
 

OK.....what is it........??? :Huh:

connection rod for some really big engine in a power plant?
Natural gas fueled?

It's a rod out of one of these. http://www.autoblog.com/2011/07/22/w.../#slide-231435

Looks like a rod out of one of those huge marine engines. Glad I don't have to pay for the repair. :beerchug:

Would have been interesting to hear it let go ! Lol

ahhh ... some guy let his kid drive it and he blew it up !


i wonder what the hammer handle looks like that you knock the piston down into the cylinder with ?

2 cycle huh ,I bet it doesn't go ...ring ding ding

just a relateable story
On colbern rd here E of Noland rd. there is a old foundry on the side of a hill
they had a very they had a very large diesel engine ,50-70 ft from the road
I would say it was bigger than a locomotive it was 8-9' tall 4-6 ft wide and 10-12 ' long I liked to stare at it as I drove by . One day driving by , they had the thing going, two older men, so I slowed down to watch . It was running smooth . The thing seemed to be just seting on the oil pan, anyway you could not see much bracing like a mount , but it sat there running like a boulder anchored to the ground .
The older guy in his 60,s was standing a ft away, in the middle of it and the other was using a step ladder, manning the throttle etc.
the guy on the ground had a ear to ear smile ....then it started to miss fire
it was shaking like a paint can in the shaker mixer...just a blur
the older guy clutched his chest and kind of froze .... the other was holding on for dear life being bounced around on the ladder , which had been proped up laying on the top of the engine. The engine set on a gravel drive ,it was moving down it now 2 mph with the top guy attached .
I was holding up 5-6 cars by now honking so I sped up passing by , I was going to turn around to see if they needed help, but almost affraid to watch , anyway there was a guy driving a 3/4 ton old PU behind me so I defered to his expertice .... on the way back the motor was still up right stopped ...but about 50 ft from where it was before
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I worked in a nuclear power plant for a number of years, doing engineering surveillance testing of many different systems. One of my favorites was the EDG, emergency diesel generators. These were Fairbanks-Morse 10 cyl, 20 piston, vertically opposed two strokes. Bore about 18 inches, connecting rod about 4 feet long. Single centrally located crankshaft. My understanding that this engine, or similar, was common in marine propulsion applications.

It was designed and tested to go from zero to 3 megawatts in under 10 seconds. 900 rpm IRRC. Standing next to one when they lit it off was an experience. Even with hearing protection, the engine sound and rush of air into the "bunker" through the missile protected louvers was overwhelming.

The engines were always on a constantly heated lube oil recirc system. They were air started, with redundant air start banks, and each one (there were 4)had a standby luger diesel to run an air compressor to recharge the starting banks should the primary electric compressors fail. There was even a hand crank to start the luger should that engine's battery start fail.