Terry Blanton <[email protected]> wrote:
> Glow plugs are for starting in cold weather. Before glow plugs, we > used ether to start diesels in cold weather. > In the Russian winter during WWII they would start tractor engines and tank engines by dumping gasoline on them and igniting it. They tried that with U.S. lend lease equipment, and destroyed it. They complained "this American stuff doesn't hold up!" My dad was there, trying to persuade them to read the instructions. They also tried running a high-tech lend lease factory before the analog computer controls showed up. Moscow ordered them to run it with manual controls. They did, and wrecked it. So they took the factory director out in the yard, assembled a firing squad, and shot him. For some reason, they had a hard time finding someone to replace him. You don't want to know what they did with DC3 airplanes. It wasn't pretty. It was clear how them managed to lose 20 million people while killing 2 million Germans. - Jed
