Bolinder engine
Peter Forbes - Prepair Ltd, Luton, UK
fishing boat for our collection. The terms of the deal are that we will
retain the engine permanently in exchange for it being given as a gift.
We have a 2500 mile journey with the van and trailer to collect it, but
that is the easy bit!
Looking for info on Bolinder engines seems to be hard work, and apart
from a copied .pdf file on one of the stationary engine guy's own sites,
there isn't a lot about.
I have had some luck with one of the Volvo-Penta dealers in Sweden who
has promised to look for information, and have also contacted the Volvo
Museum in Eskilstuna where the engines were built.
As a side note, Bolinders merged with Munktell in the 1930's and became
Bolinder-Munktell which was itself absorbed by Volvo in the 1950's. This
much is readily available on various sites including a couple of
waterways sites.
Does anyone have any other contacts for information ?
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Peter
Peter Forbes
Prepair Ltd
Luton, UK
email: pre...@easynet.co.uk
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Brian J Goggin
Luton, UK" <pre...@easynet.co.uk> wrote:
>We have been offered a Bolinder single-cylinder hot-bulb engine out of a
>fishing boat for our collection. The terms of the deal are that we will
>retain the engine permanently in exchange for it being given as a gift.
[...]
>Does anyone have any other contacts for information ?
I can find you a couple of people who are still using them, if that's
any good. I don't know how much documentation they would have.
bjg
Peter A Forbes
Hi Brian:
Anything would be useful at this stage, the big problem is that we don't know
how big this engine is. They made them from 10hp up to 30hp or more in single
cylinder versions, the biggest was 11+ litres in one cylinder!
Peter
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Peter & Rita Forbes
die...@easynet.co.uk
Engine pages for preservation info:
http://www.oldengine.org/members/diesel
Ray Hooley's Ruston-Hornsby web pages:-
http://www.oldengine.org/members/ruston
Ian McCarthy
What date was it built, and how many cylinder, as a single seems a
little small for a fishing boat they normally had multi cylinder
engines, which are a row of singles on a common shaft.
Given that we the Spey crowd, have several books on the bolinder 15NHP
single engine, including the bolinder manual, and a parts list. What
would be good if you could get hold of them are the engineering drawings
for all the parts, in particular the fuel pumps and injectors. What we
have never known are what the clearances should be for bearings, fuel
pumps, etc. We have just used our common sense so far we have got away
with that. Bolinders had there own offices in london until 1968, when
Volvo killed the name off.
Having just taken our engine out, it takes well less than 3hrs to
totally knock down and pack into a Landrover and trailer, from a
narrowboat. Beware that the heaviest piece is the bedplate, which
requires either 4 people or a good set of hoists to lift and move, the
rest two people can manage, using brute strength. The only real trick is
to remove the air flow control(heater) on the left side of the barrel
and stuff a wooden hammer shaft down it to stop the piston falling and
knocking the big end, when you come to lift the piston out, the rest
just requires common sense. Try and keep the governors in as big a piece
as you can, the set up of the tables is quite critical. Getting the
flywheel and clutch plate off requires a BIG hammer to hit the shaft
ends, with the nut suitable positioned to stop the shaft end burring
over. One has to lift and twist it in a narrowboat engine room to get a
near expectable swing. We have tried pullers but they just bend, the
sledge hammer normally works, you know when it has loosened as the note
of the bang changes. The flywheel thread is cack handed, but check. the
clutch is normal.
A starter for ten.
ps if you know who can restore ours at a reasonable price we are
interested, needs the white metal renewing on all bearing, including the
trust bearing, and a new set of piston rings, and the big end may need a
dent removing, caused many years ago, before we learnt the hammer shaft
trick.
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Cheers Ian Mac
Brian J Goggin
<die...@easynet.co.uk> wrote:
>Anything would be useful at this stage, the big problem is that we don't know
>how big this engine is. They made them from 10hp up to 30hp or more in single
>cylinder versions, the biggest was 11+ litres in one cylinder!
Replied by email with contact details for one Bolinder expert; more to
follow.
bjg
Ian McCarthy
Peter A Forbes wrote:
> Anything would be useful at this stage, the big problem is that we don't know
> how big this engine is. They made them from 10hp up to 30hp or more in single
> cylinder versions, the biggest was 11+ litres in one cylinder!
Got the range wrong 3NHP to 50NHP, as single cylinder versions, not sure
about the 11+ litre our 15NHP is approx. 7.5 L swept volume. They did
make a 4 cylinder version called a B60, which I believe was the biggest
engine they made, i'm not sure whether that was 4 * 60 or 4 *15, the
manual does make it clear. At the other end of the scale, they also made
B3 available as a 1 and 2 cylinder version. So that implies it was a
240Hp for the B60, but no 2 or 1 cylinder versions of this are mentioned.
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Cheers Ian Mac
Ian McCarthy
manual at
http://www.semidiesel.com/manolm.php?engine=1&ccman=Bolinder&manufact=11&S2=Select
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Cheers Ian Mac
Peter A Forbes
That's Paul Evans site, from which I have extracted the .pdf file.
Most of that I also have from other marine sources, where the handbook is quite
freely quoted, mainly:-
J W M Sothern - Verbal Notes & Sketches on Marine Diesels & Oil Engines
John Lamb - The Running & Maintenance of the Marine Diesel Engine
W C MacGibbon - Marine Diesel Engines
Walter Pollock - Hot Bulb Marine Engines & Suitable Vessels