{"id":31,"date":"2018-08-14T16:16:12","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T16:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/65-tiger-cub\/?p=31"},"modified":"2018-08-14T18:48:46","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T18:48:46","slug":"feb-4th-2016-day-2-preston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/65-tiger-cub\/2018\/08\/14\/feb-4th-2016-day-2-preston\/","title":{"rendered":"Feb. 4th, 2016 (Day 2) &#8211; Preston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Agenda<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Discuss Chapter 1 and 2 from\u00a0Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Assign motorcycle tasks<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Begin disassembling<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chapter 1 (Motorcycle references and Storyline)<\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li>engine flooding: excess of fuel in the engine; you smell gas when the engine floods because the engine can\u2019t burn all the raw gas; remove plugs to quickly dry out engine, or just let it sit<\/li>\n<li>choke:\u00a0a valve in the carburetor of a gasoline engine that is used to reduce the amount of air in the fuel mixture when the engine is started; hot engine doesn\u2019t need choke<\/li>\n<li>spark plug: a device for delivering electric current from an ignition system to the combustion chamber of a spark-ignition engine to ignite the compressed fuel\/air mixture by an electric spark<\/li>\n<li>points: a switch that when opened, ignites the spark plug; can get greasy (pitted) and then can\u2019t connect<\/li>\n<li>ignition coil: a transformer that triggers the spark plug<\/li>\n<li>tuning: to make high performance; to put into spec<\/li>\n<li>adjusting: correcting clearances (points, spark plugs, tappets)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do we control technology, or does technology control us? Does knowledge of technology give us control?<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chapter 2<\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li>stopcock: valve on gas tank; gas should come out when opened &#8212; otherwise tank is empty<\/li>\n<li>carburetor:\u00a0consists of a bowl that contains a quantity of fuel and\u00a0a tube that allows air and fuel into the engine through intake valve\u00a0(when air is blown over the top of the tube)<\/li>\n<li>piston: transfers force from expanding gas in the cylinder to the crankshaft<\/li>\n<li>seizure: can be caused by overheating; pistons expand from too much heat, become \u00a0too big for the walls of the cylinders, and lock the engine and rear wheel<\/li>\n<li>tappets (cam follower): adjusted to allow intake and exhaust valves to close fully<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\nDo we rush? If so, why? What is the distinction between efficiency and efficacy?<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>The Shop<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li>Motorcycle tasks assigned (bottom end, clutch, electrical, fasteners, fork, frame, top end, wheels)<\/li>\n<li>Parts of bottom end, fork, frame, top end, and wheels disassembled<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Reading Assignment<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agenda Discuss Chapter 1 and 2 from\u00a0Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Assign motorcycle tasks Begin disassembling Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Chapter 1 (Motorcycle references and Storyline) engine flooding: excess of fuel in the engine; you smell gas when the engine floods because the engine can\u2019t burn all the raw gas; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/65-tiger-cub\/2018\/08\/14\/feb-4th-2016-day-2-preston\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Feb. 4th, 2016 (Day 2) &#8211; Preston&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/65-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/65-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/65-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/65-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/65-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/65-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/65-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/65-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/65-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/65-tiger-cub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}