crankshaft

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• The resulting explosions of fuel and air drive the pistons which turn the crankshaft.
• Like in a car engine, the gas released from a manhole explosion could push on a piston and turn a crankshaft.
• The crankshaft was a nickel chrome steel forging, machined hollow, with four crank pins set at 180 degrees to each other, and carried in three bearings lined with anti-friction metal. A History of Aeronautics
• Owing to its sheer size and the distribution of friction, the most likely starting point on an engine is the crankshaft, with its main and conrod bearings. Manufacturingtalk - manufacturing industry news
• Sizing the engine for its current displacement meant that the crankshaft lost four pounds, and could ride on smaller bearing journals.
• D95R, badly damaged, needed a new oil pump and crankshaft. Wild Ride
• Engineers designed a sandwich using a second injection-molded part: A separately produced oil deflector, which is vibration-welded onto the flat section of the pan, helps to calm the oil churned by the crankshaft and balance shaft. All DN headlines
• From the metallic zizz of the starter motor and the first flurry of revs to the final frantic thrashings of the crankshaft, this is swansong motoring.
• Keyed on to the crankshaft is a flanged pulley 10 in. in diameter by 3¼ in. between flanges. Scientific American Supplement, No. 799, April 25, 1891
• The connecting rod is attached at one end to a crankpin on the crankshaft and at the other end to a piston, through a piston pin or wrist pin.