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Default Top Ten inboard marine engines

On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:01:32 GMT, (Richard
Casady) wrote:

On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 11:34:21 +0200,
(Martin
Schöön) wrote:

"Lew Hodgett" writes:

After the toys, there is always Luggar AKA: Marinized John Deere from
Alaska Diesel.

Lew


Non-toy Diesel engine: Wärtsilä-Sulzer RTA96-C
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C3%A4...r_14RTFLEX96-C

That is well and good, but about a hundred years ago they had 85 foot
long 750 ton 1500 hp single cylinder engines that ran on blast furnace
gas. I think they had about a five foot bore. They ran the blowers for
the furnaces.

Casady


A blast furnace... in a boat :-?

Cheers,

Bruce
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