Jovial Monk wrote on Oct 11
th, 2020 at 1:00pm:
Compressed air nearly out but both engines started so didn’t matter.
No starter motor for such huge engines—compressed air turns them.
(From reading the comments below the video.)
Yes worked in a situation where we had an old UK submarine engine to run backup power.
had an air compressor that dribble loaded enough to get 2 chances at kicking over the engine.
Step one was to undue the solid headers.
Step 2 was to use a 6 foot bar to align the fly wheel to TDC.
Step 3 was turn off the waterflow for cooling.
Step 4 was to manually pump lubricant into something I forgot what.
Step 5 was to kick the engine. Hope it starts if not give it a minute check everything and try again. It always started the 2nd time if you knew what you were doing.
Step 6 was to let it run up to speed.
Step 7 was to adjust the little acceleration wheel to the speed required to line up the 3 phase power output.
Step 8 was run around about half the building to shut down the commercial power
Step 9 was to run back and switch the backup power into circuit.
step 10 was to wait about 15 minutes and when the engine came up to temperature turn on the water cooling system again.
Step 11 was to place buckets to catch leaking fuel.
Step 12 routinely check for phase stability.
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