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Tiny Diesel Engine
A guy built this 12 cylinder diesel engine that runs and fits in the palm of a hand.
Don't know if he was an engineer or machinist or just a very talented hobbyist, but it took him over 2,000 hours from conception to finished product. Counting his labor and material its cost is just over $100,000.00 and all that for a conversation piece. I think it belongs in a museum for unusual accomplishments. This guy made everything at home on his lathe and drill press. It took 1220 hours just to make the 261 pieces: 12 individual cylinder heads, TINY rods and pistons, dual "underhead" cams with pushrods to rockers in the heads. And he did the break-in runs using an electric drill driving the crankshaft. Really amazing. The world's tiniest V12 engine. [VIDEO] |
That's pretty amazing. I don't feel quite as obsessive compulsive anymore after seeing his project.
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He should have been Neurosurgeon.
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A True Master of his craft.Many years ago started machining a 1/8 scale Harley panhead engine got a few pieces roughed out before moving out of state. Still have the parts in one of the toolbox drawers
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I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but that's not a diesel, or even an internal combustion engine for that matter. A beautiful piece of industrial art yes, but an engine, no.
The cams are turning at crank speed, so no compression or fire stroke. It's running on compressed air. But I love it all the same. |
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