Loren Pechtel wrote:n7axw wrote:If you are using icus with gasoline you need electric system. With diesel you don't need juice, although you do need a way of starting it. Steam of course needs no juice to run at all.
Don
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What are you going to use to replace glow plugs in the diesel?
My wife's hair dryer??
More seriously, I'm not an expert on this, but as I understand it, glow plugs solve the problem of facilitating the starting of diesels in cold weather or in contexts where the heat generated by compression is insufficient to ignite the fuel in indirect compression engines.
Just visualising the problem, I can come up with a couple of possibilities. One would be to attach a steam engine to crank over the diesel until sufficient heat was added to the compression to allow the fuel to ignite. The other could use a jacket around the cylinder walls to allow the application of preheated liquid to warm the cylinder walls, once again adding supplemental heat to the compression to ignite the fuel.
That is done most efficiently by electricity, obviously, which we take for granted but Safehold cannot use. But still, there were diesels prior to glow plugs, so Safehold's problem should be solvable whether my suggestions are workable or not.
Don
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