MAN F6V35 World War 1 U-boat diesel engine load run

A World War 1 U-boat diesel engine, built in 1917, running under load for the first time in years, after being moved to the new location of the SHVP. This U-boat engine was built in 1917 by Blohm & Voss in Hamburg to operate in a German submarine. This engine however never made it into a U-boat as the war was running to an end. The engine was stored and transferred to Holland during the second World War to operate as a generator engine in a water supply company where it was producing electric power up to the 1960's. It's a four stroke engine with six cylinders and a overhead camshaft, the exhaust valves are water cooled. Attached to the engine is a four step, high pressure air compressor which provides about 80 bar necessary for the diesel injection, as common fuel pumps where not developed yet. To start the engine a pressure of 80 bar is needed for the fuel injection system and a large volume of air at 20 bar to set the six cylinders in motion. Once started the engine's own compressor takes over the high pressure fuel injection. The engine drives an AC generator of 480 kVA built in 1944 by Smit Slikkerveer in The Netherlands. More information about this and other engines can be found on the website of the SHVP: www.shvp.nl

Comments

1. Weeks on end with all the fumes and noise bad food and smelly bodies tough dudes
2. You've got to hand it to them...the Germans sure make good cars...(after driving away from a burning Pinto!)(Top Secret)
3. A lot of Germans think they are number one, especially during and surprisingly after the First and Second World Wars. There's a lesson there for the 'united' states, too much national pride becomes a horror when others become sub-human in the view of the 'superior' side. Nice motors, but never forget their eventual purpose and use, attempted genocide and total world dictatorship by the 'superior' German 'race'. The generator plate say's Holland, why not German generators?
4. excellent shame u boat still not around to preserve also
5. FANTASTICO !!!!
6. 100 years old
7. That is one lovely engine! Wunderbar!
8. So sorry for the mistake I take all back, however by looking at what I can see on this short clip you can clearly see the cams turning although not aligned with the stationary rocker arms. Like I said the MAN engine I worked on in the 60s these for when the engine was put into reverse, because our vessel went Astern via direct operating shaft, no gear box. So if this is a U Boot engine then presumably it had a gearbox ?. very modern.
9. You may notice at approx 3:20 onward every other rocker arms are not moving, that's because they are the ones in use when the Engine goes Astern. Once the Engine stops the whole Cam shaft moves along so the Cams can operate the Astern rocker arms, well that's what happened on the MAN engine I worked on in the good old 60s.
10. das boot song!! omg i love it so much!!
11. Who said that time machines don't exist? I'm just watching one now!
12. Buen generado.
13. Es läuft !
14. Beautiful thing to see in motion. Wish I could see it in person.
15. This year 100 years old :)
16. Cos value this low?
17. Excellent!
18. Please, sir, what is the water resistor? And how did a 430 HP diesel propel a sub weighing hundreds of tons? (Unless there was 2 of these engines...?)
19. Please - would someone familiar tell us how advanced this engine was for its time?
20. Just Beatiful