Gas and Oil Engines, Simply Explained - An Elementary Instruction Book for Amateurs and Engine Attendants

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Gas and Oil Engines, Simply Explained, by Walter C. Runciman This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Gas and Oil Engines, Simply Explained An Elementary Instruction Book for Amateurs and Engine Attendants Author: Walter C. Runciman Release Date: November 17, 2008 [EBook #27286] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GAS AND OIL ENGINES *** Produced by Steven Gibbs, Greg Bergquist and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net G AS AND O IL E NGINES S I M P L Y E X P L A I N E D An Elementary Instruction Book for Amateurs and Engine Attendants BY WALTER C. RUNCIMAN FULLY ILLUSTRATED LONDON Model Engineer Series. The "Model Engineer" Series, no. 26. 1905 C O N T E N T S CHAP. PAGE PREFACE 5 I. INTRODUCTORY 7 THE COMPONENT II. 13 PARTS OF AN ENGINE HOW A GAS ENGINEIII. 22 WORKS IV. IGNITION DEVICES 33 V. MAGNETO IGNITION 47 VI. GOVERNING 51 CAMS AND VALVE VII. 63 SETTINGS VIII. OIL ENGINES 81 [Pg 5]P R E F A C E My object in placing this handbook before the reader is to provide him with a simple and straightforward explanation of how and why a gas engine, or an oil engine, works.