{"id":65,"date":"2018-08-09T13:51:54","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T13:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/59-tiger-cub\/?p=65"},"modified":"2018-08-15T13:38:28","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T13:38:28","slug":"thursday-february-7-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/59-tiger-cub\/2018\/08\/09\/thursday-february-7-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday February 7, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"body\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Reading Assignment<\/strong>&#8211; read Chapters 3 and 4 in Zen and the Art and Chapter 1 in Soulcraft<\/li>\n<li><strong>Group Assignments<\/strong>&#8211;<br \/>\nTop End- KN, KM, FS, PK<br \/>\nBottom End- BC, GE, AW<br \/>\nClutch- DT, AH, DZ<br \/>\nElectrical- MS, SY<br \/>\nFrame, Forks, and Wheel- NB, HL, OF, JZ<\/li>\n<li><strong>Book Notes<\/strong><br \/>\nSoulcraft Intro = promotes manual trade as more fulfilling than &#8220;knowledge&#8221; trade and notes a dire need for needed better manual trade in the U.S.<br \/>\n= disagrees with oversimplification of technology to the point that we don&#8217;t<br \/>\nknow\u00a0how to\u00a0interact with our own machines, i.e. mercedes with no<br \/>\ndipstick<\/p>\n<p>Zen and Art (Intro, Ch. 1 and 2) = first person narration, can&#8217;t always trust narrator<br \/>\n= instead of asking &#8220;what&#8217;s new?&#8221; asks &#8220;what&#8217;s best&#8221;?&#8221; which sets up whole<br \/>\nphilosophy\u00a0of the book<br \/>\n= introduces John and Silvia&#8217;s hatred of technology and their effort to<br \/>\nescape it<br \/>\n= <em>choke<\/em>&#8211; richens fuel mixture by restricting air to carburetor<br \/>\n= <em>flooded engine<\/em>&#8211; too much fuel to ignite (take spark plugs out to dry)<br \/>\n= <em>points<\/em>&#8211; the place where current breaks, which raises the voltage and<br \/>\nmakes the plug\u00a0spark<br \/>\n= <em>4 stroke engine<\/em>&#8211; piston goes up and down twice every explosion<br \/>\n= <em>engine seizure<\/em>&#8211; pistons heat up too much, become too big for the<br \/>\ncylinder and get\u00a0stuck in barrel (can even melt to it)<br \/>\n= <em>missing<\/em>&#8211; necessary explosion not occurring in engine so no power on<br \/>\nthat stroke<br \/>\n= <em>backfire<\/em>&#8211; fuel not completely burned in engine so explodes in muffler<br \/>\n= <em>tappet<\/em>&#8211; clacking when engine timing is off<br \/>\n= &#8220;<em>wide open&#8221;<\/em>&#8211; throttle fully twisted to open throat fully to allow the<br \/>\nmaximum amount of\u00a0air\u00a0into the carburetor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Assignment&#8211; read Chapters 3 and 4 in Zen and the Art and Chapter 1 in Soulcraft Group Assignments&#8211; Top End- KN, KM, FS, PK Bottom End- BC, GE, AW Clutch- DT, AH, DZ Electrical- MS, SY Frame, Forks, and Wheel- NB, HL, OF, JZ Book Notes Soulcraft Intro = promotes manual trade as more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/59-tiger-cub\/2018\/08\/09\/thursday-february-7-2013\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thursday February 7, 2013&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/59-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/59-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/59-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/59-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/59-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/59-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/59-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/59-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/59-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/59-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}