[Gasification] new small diesel engines from china

[Kevin Chisholm]

Dear Ian

Do you know the specific name of the Manufacturer of:
1: The engine?
2: the genset?

Thanks for the alert!!

Kevin

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ian Vincent" <vincent at igrin.co.nz>
To: <gasification at listserv.repp.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2007 12:55 AM
Subject: Re: [Gasification] new small diesel engines from china


> Beware..I am not sure about this brand but I bought 6 small diesel
> generators made in PRC  last year and not one of them made it beyond 500
> hrs running. All needed to be dissassembled and remade simply because they
> where made so appallingly in the first place. They where air cooled copies
> of Yanmar units and looked good when they where new. But unfortunately 
> they
> literally fell to peices, leaked oil, caught on fire, over charged
> batteries, ran big ends, starter motors died, batteries developed leaks,
> wiring breaks. you name it, they did it. The drama was endless and almost
> daily. I still have four of them and are simply unable to sell them 
> because
> there is no way they would ever last thru the warranty period..Ya want
> one?? going cheap....
>
> I am not saying these ones are like that..just to beware.
>
> Ian
>
>
>
> At 12:46 26/01/2007 -0800, you wrote:
>
>>i hadn't seen this yet, but on ebay there is a seller for 3.3hp water
>>cooled diesel engines for a buy it now price of $279.  also 12hp and
>>23hp ones for a little under $700.  amazing.  yes, likely a bit junky,
>>but for that price, own two!
>>
>>http://stores.ebay.com/Carroll-Stream-Motor-Company
>>
>>these might make good entry platforms for producer gas rigs.
>>converting to spark would give you a high compression engine that
>>would perform much better on producer gas than a similar gas engine.
>>same for hydrogen (if you can get it).
>>
>>j
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