On Mon, 16 Jun 2014 23:03:19 -0700, pyotr filipivich
wrote:

"Pete C." on Mon, 16 Jun 2014 13:37:38 -0500
typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:
pyotr filipivich wrote:
"Steve W." on Mon, 16 Jun 2014 08:18:23 -0400
typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:
Gunner Asch wrote:
On Sun, 15 Jun 2014 19:40:57 -0500, Ignoramus15251 wrote:
Kind of amazing video, separatists in the Ukraine start a WWII tank
right on the monument where it sat for very many years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LStWb09xtPI

Looks like they simply parked on the slab, and welded the hatches
shut.

Most US vehicles are stripped before parking

Not all..but most. Some are driven then welded closed

That is how they shipped a lot of their hardware to other countries as
"scrap metal" as well. The equipment would have any ammo removed and
drain the fuel, then weld the access areas shut. Takes about 3 hours to
grind the welds free.

I suspect, we are seeing the final "Okeh, try it now Ivan!" when
all the work came together, and it finally started. It wasn't a
situation when they plopped a new battery in it, check the oil and
fuel level and hit the starter button.

Judging from that white smoke, I at first thought "gasoline
engine" with some oil in the system. But as it was a diesel engine -
there's other reasons, few good, for that color exhaust.

Is that from the era of dual fuel diesels that start cold on gas and
switch to diesel after they warm up a bit?

"Muzha b'its" - Could possibly be. We're talking a tank
originally designed during the Great Patriotic War, but revamped over
the course of the service life (through the fifties iirc).
--
pyotr filipivich
"With Age comes Wisdom. Although more often, Age travels alone."

I worked at a plant that had a lot of Russian equipment from the
1950's and 60's and it was robust. The diesel engines all had at least
two starting systems installed. Usually a normal electric starting
motor and a "pony engine" and some of the pony engines had both an
electric starter and a hand crank :-)

A lot of the engines were obvious copies of U.S. stuff. I remember an,
as far as I could tell, direct copy of the old Cat D-7, 4 cylinder
engine and a couple of trucks had such close copies of the Detroit
Diesel 6-71 that the Detroit parts interchanged.
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Cheers,

John B.
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