1. They compress gas by utilizing a piston pushed by a crank shaft . 2. UIT is employed on drive shafts and crank shafts in a number of industries. 3. The vertically standing crank shaft was fixed in the chassis. 4. The cranks had full disk arms and the crank shaft journals ran in bronze bearings. 5. He urged owners of light aircraft to check their engines for a defective crank shaft . 6. Patents granted to Corliss and others incorporated rotary valves and crank shafts in-line with the cylinders. 7. The oil pump is driven directly from the crank shaft and the waterpump by the timing belt. 8. Like the Grasshopper locomotives before them, the crank shafts on these engines were geared to the driven shafts. 9. There is very little steel used, only the crank shaft , piston / valve rods and a few other minor items. 10. One application existed in tuned racing engines where torsional crank shaft vibrations could cause damage to the cam shaft or valves.
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