Ok so at my job most of our equipment is run off of hydraulics. One of them gets to being really slow in the winter time. So my boss decided to cut the hydraulic oil with diesel... I got a great idea lets thin out the oil in a million dollar piece of equipment in a highly flamable area with a fluid combusts by compression and lets compress the oil and see what happens. Thankfully this guy has retired. In some ways he was a genius but in other ways, not so much.
My boss was retarded
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I used to work for my wife's grand father, in the ag industry. I used to fill up the rubber tire loader all the time. Well I think the 3rd or 4th time I did it, he drove by and flipped out on me because I was filling up the wrong tank. That explained a lot of issues we were having with it. I was young.
I don't understand what you are getting at, the diesel engine relies its combustion on compression. I understand it would need air too though.
Actually the compression process creates heat which ignites the diesel, the compression itself doesn't actually ignite it. It may surprise some, but I know that way back before I was born they used to dump straight gas into engine crankcases to thin the oil out enough so that it would spin over and start up as well as keep the oil pressure at a reasoneable level when cold. My grandfather still talks about dumping in 5 gallons of avgas into the 25 gallon oil tanks in old radial engines when they were cold. They would then block off the oil coolers so the oil temp would get high enough that the gas would evaporate out and oil pressure would come back up.
yeah back in the day they used to do alot of crazy shit but also back then u didnt have msha/osha and clearences wernt super tight like they are now and people werent *****s like now days back then u just got in there and did it
well he was an older guy so it would explain that, i don't know how much it was diluted or anything just heard about it a couple weeks ago at work thought i would share. Learn something new all the time. I don't think it could be all that great for the hydraulic system though, but i don't know.
I'm aware but the principle for combusting oil is the same whether its hydraulic oil diesel fuel motor oil etc.