[SEL] Sattley manual/Now PURE BS!

[Jeff Allen]

Hi Dave,

I continue to put the Hiscox engine book online. I do a quick read on 
all the pages I scan. The builders of our old engines took all they knew 
at the time and I do believe they took into account the drips per minute 
for a fully loaded engine. Perhaps one of us can come up with a wise old 
sage that actually used one of these engines and knows the drip rate for 
an engine used as it was intended to be used.

Did they need to be watched and maintained all day or once a day? How 
often did the oiler need to be filled? Did the farmer running a pump 
have to check his engine once a day or often throughout the day? How 
about the oil field engines that ran 24/7? Lots of questions here and 
maybe we can get some answers.

Our toys are show and tell and I doubt any are run under the conditions 
they where designed for. We play with them and the original owners used 
them for real . Big difference there.

Didn't plan on starting a great thread, but keep it going folks.

PURE BS? I think not Dave except for your comments.

Jeff Allen


Dave Rotigel wrote:

> At 08:57 PM 6/15/2005, you wrote:
>
>>> The drip rate on a loaded engine would have to be increased to 
>>> compensate for the blow by drying the piston.
>>
>> Increased thermal evaporation of oil, too. Piston ring land and skirt 
>> temperatures in a loaded engine can easily get up into the range 
>> where oil is "smoking," and much of the cylinder wall that the rings 
>> travel over is directly exposed to the hot combustion gas for a good 
>> part of the power stroke.
>> John Culp
>
>
> GREAT point John! I'm sure the builders of our old engines took that 
> into account when determining how many drips per minute were necessary.
>         Dave
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