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As a youth, I worked with a large variety of steam powered equipment; industrial, automotive and marine. There are still many applications today where steam is the most suitable, efficient and elegant ...

As opposed to a rotary engine, in which case if you want to scavenge the oil, you would need to get it from the sides and bottom of the fuselage and the wing roots...

Need more details. Guessing you're referring to the bearing shell itself? What engine application?

You never hear anything good about Hispano copies, whether license built or otherwise. I think you have to take into consideration all of the problems Hispano itself was having, especially with the g ...

Roland,
Essco has manuals for the 1820. https://www.esscoaircraft.com/c-7656-wright-aeronautical-gr-1820-series.aspx

Austin 7 uses ball bearings for the front & rear main bearings.... oh, you said "modern engine"... sorry!

Thanks to the staff at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, we are now making magneto caps for Alllison V12's. These should be up on our website soon.

We are in the process of making distributor caps (CX71374/1 LH and CX71372/1 RH) and rotors for British Thomson-Houston magnetos as fitted to de Havilland Gypsy Six engines.

If anyone knows the cor ...

At the specific request of Tom Fey and for those collectors who are into smaller engines, we've made tooling to reproduce the metal timing covers for Righter drone engines, part number 6299 (and 44A10 ...

We just made a couple of Liberty 8 distributor caps for the National Museum of the United States Air Force. They are now fitted to an original engine whose restoration is now complete. Considering t ...

Considering the production quantity, application and era, any "manuals" were most likely limited to several pages of basic information, typewritten and mimeographed.

An interesting piece ...

Prior to the Gnome, "dependable" would not be a term generally thought of when referring to an aero engine. It's simplicity and dependability revolutionized the scene just in time for the G ...

We have just started making distributor caps (CX158600) and rotors (CX96376/1) for British Thomson-Houston CD6A magneto distributors as fitted to de Havilland Gypsy Queen (6 cylinder) engines.

This ...

We just made a small number of magneto control heads for Gnome 160. Wish I could provide a part number, but haven't been able to find one. They look like a hockey puck with a number of carbon brushe ...

I was going through my copies of Torque Meter and noticed that on the cover of the issue that contained "Re-inventing the Liberty Cap" was a photo of the Bugatti U-16. Ironically, several y ...