Talk:Ursus C-45

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is the figure for the cylindre size correct. 10300cc. it seems awefully big. should it be 1300cc? Daiyounger (talk) 19:19, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

Kids, you are not old enough to know these tractors and the Lanz bulldog. They were still around in the early 50s. So I may convince you that they really had 6 liter and 10 liter one-cylinder engines. The cylinder had to be pre-heated with a blow-torch! (Or by making a wood fire under it!).

Related engines of that kind at the time would in addition even need a plug of saltpeter-phosphorus mixture coated cardboard inserted into a screw-top opening of the cylinder. This would act like a huge match head, giving an explosive flame. Then a decompression valve had to be opened. Then the engine had to be cranked by (strong) hands. It had I guess a 100 pounds flywheel. It was impossible to crank against the compression with a cylinder like a big bucket. Then the decompression valve had to be closed, once the flywheel was up to speed. Then the following happened: (decompression valve open) oooof- phhhhh- ooooof - phhhh - ooooof -phhhhh (now close decompression valve!) oooooomphhh...kabooom!!! (pyrotechnic ignition) - phhhhhhhhh (big black cloud)- kabooom-phhhh-kaboom-phhhh... Engine running. With every kaboom a cloud of black smoke with smoke rings around it coming from the exhaust! 70.137.129.130 (talk) 08:02, 29 July 2011 (UTC)