I can't even imagine the forces required to cause this...
(http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/198zhuvl0rw2yjpg/original.jpg)
(http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/198zhuvl0kfz3jpg/original.jpg)
(http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/198zhuxjvr239jpg/original.jpg)
Good god...
I had a Bultaco 250cc Pursang in my old MX days do that to a rod. Pretty sure it didn't have that kind of power. ;D
What's the part on the left ... Is that the cross head? Doesn't
Look a piston is In the picture.
Yep, the cross head.
That's quite a smooth bend, pretty spectacular.
I suspect the rod bearing on the crank failed, seizing to the crank journal, and the other 5 or 7 or ? cylinders were more than happy to continue turning the crank to bend that rod.
A small gif showing the cross head:
(http://www.marinediesels.info/Animations/marine_diesels_small.gif)
And a schematic:
(http://www.marinediesels.info/Basics/mitsubishi%20_slow_speed.jpg)
Quote from: ZILBERT on December 11, 2013, 06:56:24 AM
I can't even imagine the forces required to cause this...
(http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/198zhuvl0rw2yjpg/original.jpg)
I can. That's hot.
Just get on that with a pipe and straighten 'er back out!
That reminds me of that monstrosity of a low speed diesel that is stable down to 7 RPM.
JM
(http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/5/56434/1524097-zz.jpg)
"I don't know who did that, but I admire his technique."
Just the fact that it didn't break is mind blowing.
BC.