Pile driver.

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Another in a long list of construction/engineering tools that could be built by the junkyard teams. It could be steam or compressed-air driven or else by lifting and dropping a weight using an interrupted gear mechanism. It could be part of a two-stage challenge where they have to drive pilings for a bridge they must cross in order to ... get to the other side ... supply your own scenario here... Anyway, lots of noise, smoke, and potential for destruction.

-- Theo Smit (tsmit@home.com), February 20, 2001

Answers

Real pile drivers are in essence a one cylinder diesel engine. These things take about ten cans of starting fluid (ether) to start. then they run as a free piston up and down in a cylinder that injects diesel fuel into the cylinder at the top of the stroke.

-- Stephen A. Binion (Stephenbinion@hotmail.com), February 21, 2001.

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