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Thence it would feed itself up into the carbureter of the working engine by a force-pump attached to the engine, as with the gasoline. The boys had just finished putting in the fuel when Mr. Giddings and Bob drove up in the former's automobile. "I expect this is a great day for you young men?" said the publisher, with a smile of greeting to all.
The gasoline fills the carbureter, which is the thing which feeds the engine automatically. Then you turn on your electricity by shifting a switch. That is to supply the spark. Then turn the fly-wheel two or three times so as to get the vapor into the cylinder and secure the first explosion. That is all there is to it. I hope you do learn to run this boat, so I can get away now and then!"
Barry stopped, and lifting the hood, examined the carbureter. With the motor idling, it seemed perfect. Once more he started, only to stop again and anxiously survey the ignition, test the spark plugs and again inquire into the activities of the carbureter.
She was a pretty girl in a white dress and bore no traces in her face of any stern religious proclivities. "I didn't know " she said, staring from one to the other of us. "Mother said that is won't you go right upstairs and have some tea and lie down?" She had hardly taken her eyes from Tish, who had lifted the engine hood and was poking at the carbureter with a hairpin.
Overhaul and adjust your carbureter? Keep your transmission in order? Get the maximum wear out of your tires? Do any other of the hundred and one things that are necessary for the greatest use and enjoyment of your car? Then you will find this book useful. THE FOX HOUND, by Roger D. Williams. Author of "Horse and Hound." Illustrated.
It was not a very elaborate meal, but it put new heart and courage into the lost ones. "We'll get back somehow some time," declared Alice, who was now almost her old self. "And then won't everybody be glad!" Night was coming on, but before the advent of darkness Russ had remedied the defect in the motor boat. There was trouble with the ignition system, and also with the carbureter.
Ferris went into the office to prepare a basis of estimating, Bobby stayed behind to examine the carbureter of his machine, which had been acting suspiciously on the way out, and while he was engaged in this task a voice that he knew quite well saluted him with: "Fine work, old pal! I guess you put all your lemons into the squeezer and got the juice, eh?"
He should understand the cam action, whereby the valves are lifted at the proper time; what the effect of the spark advance means; the throttling of the engine; air admission and supply; the regulation of the carbureter; its mechanism and construction; the propeller should be studied, and its action at various speeds. It will be a novel sensation.
He explained that he'd been adjusting the carbureter on Lady Alicia's new car. "Don't you think, Duncan," I said, trying to speak calmly, though I was by no means calm inside, "that it's rather a sacrifice of dignity, holding yourself at that woman's beck and call?"
"'If you do that I'll put ye in jail! yells Burns. 'That's a criminal act! It's destruction of property with burglarious intent! Ain't it, Harry? "Harry comes up out of the machinery. There's grease even on his specs. "'It's the carbureter, he says. "'I'll leave it to the judge! hollers Burns. 'Ain't that a criminal act?
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