08:4108:41, 17 February 2019diffhist+3,361
Dreadnought
All NPOV unencyclopedic garbage. One "dreadnought" that actually matches the definition was built and only one. And it was not "predominant" because nothing is "dominant" period years before its construction.
08:3108:31, 17 February 2019diffhist−962
Horsepower
Chassis dynos do not measure engine torque and do not calculate horsepower from brake load torque at specific engine speeds. There are also no "losses
00:3500:35, 1 January 2019diffhist−223
Norton Big 4
There is no way to convert historical HP calculations to any modern HP measurement/calibration "equivalent" because dynamometers do not "measure" HP. It is calculated from torque measurements via dynamometer brake or roller mass acceleration rates.Tag: references removed
06:5506:55, 19 December 2018diffhist+1,745
Interrupted screw
An interrupted screw is not a screw at all and breeches are machined with true spiraling threads which continue down to and resume spiraling from the interruptions not in the screw but in the smooth tapered plug that becomes a screw when threaded and has interrupted threads to permit it to block the breech bore instead of plug it.
18 December 2018
21:4121:41, 18 December 2018diffhist+1
Armstrong gun
breech still screws into place after interrupted thread allows block to slide into place and rotate to engage threads in a fraction of a revolution instead of several revolutions.
21:3021:30, 22 November 2018diffhist−62
Chevrolet Stovebolt engine
→Third generation: All inline 6-cylinder "automotive" and the vast majority of "industrial" and "commercial" engines with the exception of "reverse rotation" marine engines are RH rotation viewing the crankshaft from the front of the engine. And all inline six-cylinder engines have 1-5-3-6-2-4 firing orders. That information is not specific to the 230-cubic-inch engines.
21:2021:20, 22 November 2018diffhist−124
Chevrolet Stovebolt engine
→Third generation: Unless a crankshaft "pulley" has an internal hub and external damper ring separated by a vulcanized rubber material its not a "harmonic damper". Its simply a crankshaft pulley or pulley hub. Internally-balanced even-fire engines like inline 6-cylinders and Chevy small-block V8s excluding the 400 only have and need harmonic dampers to dampen vibrations and harmonics from engine-driven accessories like AC compressors, cooling fans, "smog pumps", power-steering pumps, etc.
21:1521:15, 22 November 2018diffhist−205
Chevrolet Stovebolt engine
→Third generation: More irrelevance removed. Chevrolet never used the Buick V6 and instead used the GM "uneven-fire" 2.8-liter 60-degree V6 and never used even that engine in anything but a "models" previously available with inline six-cylinders years or decades before and the new "compact" vehicles like the S-series pickups. Chevrolet's "replacement" for the inline six-cylinder in full-size pickups and eventually the 2.8-liter V6 in S-series trucks was the 4.3-liter 90-degree V6,
21:0821:08, 22 November 2018diffhist−593
Chevrolet Stovebolt engine
→Third generation: The ignition system/distributor information is irrelevant and dubious. All inline six-cylinder engines with 1-5-3-6-2-4 firing orders are "even-fire" and all engines with two or more and an even number of cylinders arranged in one or more "banks" are "even-fire" engines as long as pairs of cylinders share crankshaft journals and the ignition "triggers" on the distributor shaft - electronic or point-type - are equally-spaced. Only 60-degree V6s are "uneven fire".
20:5020:50, 22 November 2018diffhist−87
Chevrolet Stovebolt engine
→Third generation: Chevrolet was producing and produced nothing but OHV inline engines for decades during which Chrysler produced nothing but flathead six-cylinders and Chrysler's "Slant Six" was designed and developed with its "slanted" architecture to allow it to fit under the hoods of "unibody" and "compact" Chrysler vehicles with insufficient room between the top of the K-member and bottom of the hood to fit anything but the "LA" small-blocks originally designed for them and vice versa.