[SEL] Abenaque engines

Richard Strobel Richard_Strobel7 at msn.com
Wed Sep 21 06:18:36 PDT 2005


That is a pretty kewl design!  Why is it carboning up that bad...too cool? 
Maybe he designed it that way to increase the compression ratio :-)

How does one pronounce Albenaque?

Thanks pard
RickinMt.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Curt" <curt at imc-group.com>
To: "SEL" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>; "SEL (Oldengine.org)" 
<stationary-engine at oldengine.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 12:15 PM
Subject: [SEL] Abenaque engines


> Things seem a little slow on the lists so here is something for
> entertainment:
>
> Every once in a while I will pull the cylinder head off of the 6 HP
> Abenaque and give it a cleaning. In preparation for our 3 day Cotton
> Ginning Days show I pulled the head off to remove carbon. Would you
> believe I scrubbed 2 full cups of carbon out before it was clean!
> Last time I did this I did not have a digital camera, so this time I
> took a few pictures and thought you might enjoy seeing a couple of neat
> features of Abenaque engines.
>
> http://www.oldengine.org/members/holland/images/Abanaque/CylinderHead002.jpg
> Shows the top of the cylinder with the intake valve on the right and the
> exhaust on the left. Pretty good design in that you can fill the engine
> with all kinds of gas and oil and it will simply drain out the valves to
> clear itself.
>
> http://www.oldengine.org/members/holland/images/Abanaque/CylinderHead003.jpg
> This view shows the fuel injector just below the cylinder. Fuel is
> injected into the heated manifold below the cylinder where it vaporises
> and waits for the next intake stroke. You can also see the ornate rocker
> arms that operate both the intake and exhaust valves off of the side 
> shaft.
>
> http://www.oldengine.org/members/holland/images/Abanaque/CylinderHead005.jpg
> It's a bit hard to see but the cylinder head has a hemi shape to it with
> the mag/ignitor sitting in the middle.
>
> The patents on this engine are listed as 1898. I think it is pretty neat
> that engineer John Ostenburg designed features like fuel injection and
> hemispherical combustion heads this early in the engine era.
>
> Hope you've enjoyed these.
> Curt Holland
> Gastonia, NC
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