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- From: lesnyd@monsanto.com (Larry E. Snyder)
- Subject: Re: Question about Diesels
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.200855.27225@tin.monsanto.com>
- Sender: news@tin.monsanto.com (USENET News System)
- Organization: DSC
- References: <1992Aug17.185938.4680@linus.mitre.org>
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- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 20:08:55 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug17.185938.4680@linus.mitre.org>, m14494@mwvm.mitre.org (Mike White) writes:
- >
- > I've been away from RC modeling for a while,
- > and I'm pretty out of date. I'm catching up, but
- > I've been seeing ads for diesel model engines, and
- > I'm wondering what the little hickey on the top of
- > the engine head is. It looks like a screw-in plug of
- > some sort that goes where the glow plug ought to be.
- > What is that? How does it work? Any enlightenment
- > will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
- >
-
- That doohickey is used to control the compression in the cylinder. Since
- diesels get ALL of their ignition from compression, this is a critical
- adjustment...
-
- > (signed)
- > Reeling from RC culture shock
- >
- > ************************
- > * These are my opinions only.*
- > ************************
- >
- >
-