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Lancaster has more physical reality in this role than any other actor could portray - when he pours the babbit in the huge con-rod, files it, and then manhandles it back on to the engine, is pure Industrial Age poetry.
Seminal Image #691 2007
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It was a large con-rod for actuating the valve gear on one of the heritage railway's steam locomotives that Ufone used as the yardstick when evaluating which large machining centre it would buy.
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It was a large con-rod for actuating the valve gear on one of the heritage railway's steam locomotives that Ufone used as the yardstick when evaluating which large machining centre it would buy.
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It was a large con-rod for actuating the valve gear on one of the heritage railway's steam locomotives that Ufone used as the yardstick when evaluating which large machining centre it would buy.
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It was a large con-rod for actuating the valve gear on one of the heritage railway's steam locomotives that Ufone used as the yardstick when evaluating which large machining centre it would buy.
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The weight of each piston has been reduced from 280 to180g, piston skirt area and ring tension reduced to cut friction and the crankshaft offset so the con-rod is vertical when combustion chamber pressure is at its highest.
Motoring 2009
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The two-stroke engine produced more power than a four-stroke engine of the same capacity (cc), however oil must be introduced into the crankcase space for con-rod bearing lubrication, either with a pump or by mixing it with the petrol; this oil is burnt, giving the characteristic smell of a two-stroke engine.
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This was down to the fact the team had already reacted after Budapest, where Massa first encountered the con-rod problem which cost him victory.
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"You make a good point there IrishAnders, although Massa's blow-out was due to a faulty con-rod as they later discovered.
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