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Lloyd E. Sponenburgh[_3_] Lloyd E. Sponenburgh[_3_] is offline
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Default Picture of a broken crankshaft

Gunner Asch fired this volley in
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Punch press of some sort from the looks of it.


Yep, it was. But some of those old 'pancake' engines had short strokes
(high ratios, but short strokes).

I've seen a couple of 36" piston-diameter tug motors with strokes of less
than 10". Flat heads, though, so still good compression ratio.

Lloyd