Aviation engines, design - construction - operation and repair; a complete, practical treatise outlining clearly the elements of internal combustion engineering with special reference to the design, construction, operation and repair of airplane power plants; also the auxiliary engine systems, such as lubrication, carburetion, ignition and cooling. It includes complete instructions for engine repairing and systematic location of troubles, tool equipment and use of tools, also outlines the latest mechanical processes (1917)
Pagé, Victor Wilfred, 1885-1947 · New York, The Norman W. Henley Publishing Company · leaf 184
ation, fouling due to carbon, or too largeor small a spark gap. To clean the plugs a stiff brush Locating Magneto Trouble 183 and gasoline should be used. The spark gap should beabout ]/32 and never less than %4. Too small a gapmay have been caused by beads of metal forming dueto the heat of the… … B M Rocking Field-^ lase Fig. 66.—The Dixie Model 60 for Six-Cylinder Airplane Engine Ignition. should be verified according to instructions previouslygiven, and, if necessary, readjusted. Be careful to observe that both the type VN-1 andtype N-l coils are so arranged that the spark occurson the…
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