ORIGINAL: dieselbloke
<![if gte mso 9]><xml><w:worddocument><w:view></w:view><w:browserlevel></w:browserlevel></w:worddocument></xml><![endif]><![if gte mso 9]><xml><w:latentstyles latentstylecount="156" deflockedstate="false"></w:latentstyles></xml><![endif]><![if gte mso 10]><style type="text/css"> Style Definitions */table.MsoNormalTable{mso-style-name:"Table Normal";mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;mso-style-noshow:yes;mso-style-parent:"";mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;mso-para-margin:0in;mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:#0400;mso-fareast-language:#0400;mso-bidi-language:#0400;}</style><![endif]><![if gte mso 9]><xml><o:shapedefaults spidmax="1026" v:ext="edit"></o:shapedefaults></xml><![endif]><![if gte mso 9]><xml><o:shapelayout v:ext="edit"><o:idmap data="1" v:ext="edit"></o:idmap></o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]><p class="MsoNormal">I've never really understood the compulsion to dieselize motors just for it's own sake. Some glows are rugged enough to make good diesels, most including the rather lightly constructed examples from the fifties and sixties aren’t.
A good rule of thumb is how does the glow run on 30% nitro? If it can survive that it will probably hold together as a diesel.
I'd guess that this one won't, and what’s the point anyway. There are lots of fine small diesels available from Ebay.
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Iagree that spending the time and effort is a waste of time in a lot of cases but here we have an old side port design that is known to have a modest power output ( I don't think that 30% nitro would be a good test here anyway as that doesn't stress the compression enough,) and if you stick to this low expectation dictated by the design it may be OK.
Iam looking very suspiciously at the con rod though and wonder how the piston seal will hold up.
Its very telling that there is very little traffic about Gilbert diesels on the net, Ihave never heard or seen one - so I guess that some fliers have looked at it sideways before and passed it by.
The other thing is that the one piece glow heads may be hard to find and a diesel head would cure that issue once and for all!
Cheers.