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sauterd · Sep 28, 2019

sauterd · Sep 30, 2019

Tobias Loðbrók
September 28 at 4:41 PM
The 1947's roll off the line, 1946 / Photo by Bernard Hoffman
New four-door 1947 Studebaker Champion Sedans roll off assembly line Studebaker automobile manufacturing plant, South Bend, Indiana, 1946.

68PK21 440.6bbl · Sep 30, 2019

sauterd said:
Keith Anderson
· September 8 ·

This is the crankshaft for a Wärtsilä-Sulzer RTA96-C engine, the largest reciprocating engine in the world, used in large container ships. It's a 1810-liter engine that generates 108,920 horsepower at 102 RPM, and it idles at 22 RPM... almost 3 seconds per rotation. This crankshaft weighs 300 tons (660,000 pounds) and each piston weighs 12,000 pounds and has a stroke length of 8.2 feet.

As of 2006 there were more than 300 of these engines in active service.

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In my early 20's the other old fella mechanic in the shop was on a Destroyer in WWII in the Pacific, worked in the engine room where he said that it wasn't uncommon for the temperature to be 140° with sea intake water coming in at 95°. He described to me how big the diesel engine was and explained how they would change out pistons & connecting rods by removing a plug in the piston and screwing in a eye bolt to pull the piston out with a overhead chain fall. Skinny little guy too, raised IIRC 10 kids, 9 boys 1 girl, referred to his sons by a number not name, big azz alcoholic too. Ya know the type that goes out for a 'Liquid Lunch'.