Question about last lab –
Blue Motorcycle: What needed to be detached from the motor to remove it from the frame?
- Oil lines on the bottom (feed and return) and on the head (two circles)
- gas line and carburetor (along with the slide)
- electrical wiring/points system
- clutch cable
- valve covers
- one of the studs (removed with trick turn: tightening of two different nuts, then unscrewed together)
- engine bolts
- spark plug wire
Sandblasting- sandblast gun shoots air over a tube which creates a vacuum, and sand thus gets drawn up the tube and then ejected outwards
- team covered threads where axles go through with tape (on wheel hubs)
- sandblasting cleans up rust and takes off paint
Model T Engine model
- When lightbulbs go off, the valve closes
- after an explosion, fuel and air come together, which generates heat (raising the pressure by a factor of 7), and the powerstroke happens right after the spark, so the piston gets pushed down, causing the crank to turn
- What is left in the chamber? C6H18 + O2 –> CO2 + H2O
- orange valves let hot gas out through exhaust pipe, and white valves let cool gas in from the carburetor
- in a Model T, there are 4 cylinders, so there is always one running, which keeps the car going
Reading Discussion
- Discussion Leader: Owen
- Chapter 3- Thunderstorm, introduction of ghosts/Phaedrus
- Speedometer measures how fast one is going based on speed of wheel rotations
- Tachometer refers to rotations per meter of the engine- measures the crankshafts
- Chapter 4- What to bring on a motorcycle roadtrip, transition back to roadtrip during the super cold temperatures
- Cotter pins: piece of metal to help put something in place
- cold chisel- metal used to remove things that are stuck
- feeler guage- thin piece of metal to see how close two things are
