One of the things I am looking for is the post that stated that the Wolseley had Crankshaft problems. I can’t find it anywhere and it is really bugging me as what he may have meant to say was about the Gear and Pinion. I have figured out, I believe, that the Lubrication of the Gear and Pinion was by a spray into two holes in the Gear from the pipe that supposedly broke and caused most of the problems in the 8B engine. If this is true then the Gear may have been insufficiently cooled by not having enough lubricant to cool and lubricate the teeth in the pinion. Cooling by the lubricate may have just been even more important than the actual lubrication process itself. This may be true if the Gear and Pinion were not being cooled enough before re-engagement. Some times the reason to spray the oil on the disengagement side of the gear and pinion to allow the oil a full rotation of the gear to cool its teeth.
I am now in the stage where the machining of the Blade Rod with its dual Outside Diameters for the mating of the Fork Rod and am trying to fine out if Birkigt had access to Optical Tooling for the alignment of the machines to aline the I.D, and the O.Ds to one another but have been unable to find exactly when such equipment was available to do this highly precise exercise in machining.
Did Birkigt have access to Precision Inspection Precision?
The Optical Inferometer had been invented some time before and I believe it was one of the optical devices used by Johansson to make Jo blocks.
The gauge block set, also known as "Jo Blocks", was developed by the Swedish inventor Carl Edvard Johansson. Johansson was employed in 1888 as an armourer inspector by the state arsenal Carl Gustaf Stad's Rifle Factory in the town of Eskilstuna, Sweden.
Carl Edvard Johansson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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