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This means you, Dave...The uploader here says this is the rarest of the rare Detroit Diesels, the 1-71 produced for a couple of years in the late 1930's...With less than 1000 built, off the shelf parts are non-existent, so improvisation becomes the watchword...Watch as he buys this one sight unseen, and proceeds to find out if it will even run...A word of warning - his language is occasionally reminiscent of my own when I did such things for a living......Ben
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I skipped ahead to see if he could get it to run and was impressed when he succeeded.
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It's even more impressive when you see what horrors he had to undo, then re-manufacture from scratch...And apparently a lot more to come...Originally Posted by UTAH
...Ben
The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...
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I am about half way through. I am amazed at how clean the inside of that engine is. My guess is that it has very low hours on it.
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Very nice
I never saw a 1-71, I did see a 2-71 which was running a line shaft drive in a local saw mill. The main saw and carriage was powered by a 6-71. The 2-71, with flat belt drives, drove the sawdust conveyors, a big gang rip saw, and cut off saws.
All good stuff---thanks Ben
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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I thought the little blower was cute too......Ben
The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...
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