The modern gas tractor, its construction, utility, operation and repair: a practical treatise defining every branch of up-to-date gas tractor engineering, driving and maintenance in a non-technical manner. Considers fully all types of power plants and their components, methods of drive and speed changing mechanisms. Describes design and construction as well as practical application of tractors in the field (1919)
Pagé, Victor Wilfred, 1885-1947 · New York : Scientific American Pub. Co. · leaf 134
Fig. 40. The large water spaces surrounding thecylinder walls and combustion chamber are clearly indi-cated. The bore of the cylinder is finished very smoothly The Modern Gas Tractor 131 in order that the piston may sHcle up and down withminimum friction. Gas-engine cylinder castings arecommonly… … Fig. 40,—Sectional View of L Head Cylinder Showing WaterSpaces Around Combustion and Valve Chamber. age. The removal of the scale from the interior of thecylinder relieves some of the stresses produced in themetal when the cylinder was cast and the seasoningoperation permits it to assume a definite…
Farm engines · Internal combustion engines
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