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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (April 30, 1913)
1913. AUTOMOBILES TIIE BEE: OMAHA, "WEDNESDAY, APRIL DENATUREDALGOHOL CLEANS The Best Decorbonizing Agent Now Known to Auto World. EESULTS OF EXPERIMENTS MADE IVore ConrlniilTely Thnt Hard De posits Accumulated Upon the Bzplonlnn Surface of Cylinder Cnn He Tnken Off. To engineers and machinists Interested tn the care ot automobile engines the sub ject of Incrustations or carbonisation Is understood as being; closely related to the subject of lubrication and carbu retlon. However, there seems to be a di vergence of opinion as to whether most of the carbon found In the combustion space of cylinders Is due to fuel or the lubricating; oil. It Is sometimes concluded that because the deposits found upon piston heads are of a very solid nature and not fluffy like gasoline soot, the car port composing these deposits sometimes appear slightly oily, and It must be re numbered that generally tho surfaces of the combustion spaco are covered with an oily film which forms an adhesive sur face perfectly adapted to catch and hold whatever gasoline soot or other solid matter Is brought Into contact with them. It seems reasonable that a mass of oily carbon would be built up, If fresh oil and fresh carbon were being constantly supplied to these surfaces and that the heat of combustion would serve to con- surfaces would have necessitated the use BONESETTER REESE TAKES coarse sandpaper In preference to emery NO CHANCES WITH HIS ARM cloth. Of course. It would have been valve plug holes, presented a slightly oily Among the numerous celebrities who aDDearance. The appearance of the other have been completely captured by the nMuurv to disassemble the' erutlnea In virtues of the Oakland car, Bonesetter order to properly remove the deposits! Keese of Youngstown. O.. Is the latest, because none of the engines -used- in these Mr. Ileese Is unique among famous people experiments were fitted with removable as he has won his reputation through cylinder heeds, though some had caged his ability to repair broken bones and vulval In the heads. to straighten out the kinks In strained bile, and which will run throughout the present summer, strikes a now note In motor car exploitation, as It hits directly at tho human Interest side of motoring; coupling up the car with the day's play so that a better day's work may result. To test the cleansing properties of de natured alcohol all of these engines were treated. The procedure follows In detail. Whnt It Will Accomplish. Ten conclusions were drawn from the experiments made; 1. Denatured alcohol Is an efficient decarbonizer for tho automobile type of engine. ' 2. It docs not Injuriously affect the surface of the metals with which It comes In contact. J. Heat Is not necessary whn using; denatured alcohol as a decarbonizer. 4. Heat accelerates the action of de natured alcohol when used as a de carbonizer. 6. Denatured alcolhol when Introduced In tho combustion space of an automobile cylinder which Is at the working. Urn eprature of tho engine, will loosen the carbon deposit so as to permit 'the de posit to become separated from the walls of the combustion space end pass out of the cylinder with the exhaust gassea when the engine Is run. , 6. The best results from the Use of denatured alcohol as a carbon remover are obtained when the combustion,' epae eolldate these materials. Therefore It does 'of a hot engine Is entirely filled with liquid denatured alcohol ana perjrmiea io soak for a period not less than sl)c hpurs. 7. Denatured alcohol will act as a carbon remover when the engine Is cbld. provided the liquid denatured alcohol Is In contact wjth the carbon-covered sur faces. The action- ot denatured alcohol under these conditions It about half as raeld as when the engine is hot. 8. The action of denatured alcohol as a carbon remover wnen mirooucea small Quantities into the combustion space of a cold automobile engine la positive but slow. 9. Where the fit between the piston. rings and cylinder walls Is Imperfeot, de natured alcohol will leak past the pis tons Into the crank case and cause, the oil In the crank case to become unfit for use for lubricating the engine. How ever, when a sufficient amount, of de natured alcohol haa been added to this oil and circulated through the lubricat ing system of the motor, for a very short period In order to obviate the possibility ot damaging the wearing surfaces of the engine, denatured alcohol acts as a cleansing agent, as evidenced by the un usual amount ot foreign matter with drawn with the denatured alcohol treated oil. 10. Due to the cleansing action at de natured alcohol as noted In the preced ing conclusions, an engine which haa been in service for an extensive period. will show a marked Increase in operating efficiency when thoroughly treated with denatured alcohol. not seem necessary to assume that tho lubricating oil is decomposed to account for the carbon Incrustation In tho engine which Is using an over-rich mixture. It Ik. however, probable that the oil Is also being decomposed; when one consider that generally In an engine which hss run for some time, the underside of the pis ton head Is coated with a carbon deposit It might be well to mention here that a chemical analysis of so-called carbon de posit from the combustion space. of an automobile engine, especially It this de posit has been formed during tho summer months when the roads are dusty, will 'very likely show a percentage of sill cotes, which have been Introduced In the form of road dust, held In suspension by tho air passing through the carburetor. This dust upon coming In contact with the oily surface of the combustion space lodgos there and combines with the car bon deposited, whether from the decom position ot the lubricating oil or the fuel, to form the Incrustations. Necessity for Uemovlnsx Deposits. The pretence of carbon deposits on the surface of the combustion spaoe of any type of engine is to bo avoided, because the radiation of heat to the outside sur faces of the cylinder Is retarded. The presence of these deposits causes spon taneous Ignition, which ia a common sourco ot rapid depreciation of tho work ing parts of one engine, in addition to af fecting tho economical and quiet opera tlon of the engine. Where the deposits are prcsont in sufficient quantity, de pending upon tho design of the esdaa and the sArvIco In which It Is employed, the operation of the engine may bo en tirely prevented, duo to spontaneous Ig nition. Tho phenomenon of spontaneous ignition (sometimes called pre-tgnltlon or self-Ignition) is explained as follows: When the engine is In operation the tem perature of the gases in the combustion spaco during the period of combustion, is sufficiently high to raise the temperature of the carbon deposit to a red heat The result Is that the deposit retains the heat imparted to It during the power stroke, and serves to Ignite the new charge of inflammable gas on the following com pression stroke. The result Is that the Ig nition of the gas and consequent high explosive pressure occurs while the piston )s on the up stroke, the effect being that the force of the explosion tends' to sud denly stop tho engine and reverse Its di rection ot rotation.- - Iteaults In Undue Strains. Tho Inertia of the flywheel and mo mentum ot the vehlclo aro generally suf ficient to prevent this reversal, with the presult that all of the power transmitting parts of the engine and vehlclo. are sub? jected to undue strains. The continuance of severe prc-lgnttlon will Jn a short time cause the bearings ot the connecting rod and generally the crank shaft bearings to fall. In many cases, however, the con hecting rod Is broken by the abnormal strain put upon It, before the bearings fall. In high compression engines it is (possible for pre-lgnltlon to occur due to an Increase of compression, resulting from a decrease of compression volume because of a thick deposit ot carbon, which may or may not be at a sufficiently Well temperature to Ignite the charge. Carbon deposits are frequently the source of loss of compression because of the flaky hard nature ot these deposit which will present the proper closure of the valves It a smalt part of the de posit la loosened and becomes lodged on the valve seat Carbon deposits are the cause of greater wear of the working parts of the engine than appears at first thought It Is but necessary tp filter the oil drawn from the crank case ot a mo tor, which has been In dperatlon but t abort time and analyze, and closely ex amine the substance extracted from the oil by the filter paper.' It will be found that this substance Is principally gran ular carbon which has worked past the piston rings and collected In the oil. Thl carbon is carried to all Tarts of the motor with the oil. The reut. Is, self-apparent Experiments Arc Made. To ascertain th acllbn df denatured alcohol upon the so- carbon deposit a. number of tests were recently made dur ing a period ot about a month. The tern-' perature during this time- varied from degrees highest to 3 degrees Fahrenheit on the two coldest days. The engines ot fourteen cars which has been in service from one to twenty months since being built or cleaned of cylinder deposits,1 were, selected. In some of these engines the cylinder deposit was In the form of! a coating of carbon, resembling lamp-! black, and could easily have been re-1 moved by wiping the combustion space with a cloth. It was not practical to do this, however, with disassembling the en- i Sines. Three engines had deposits which were baked hard on the combustion cham ber surfacts and covering the layer ot hard deposit there was a layer of tho flaky carbon, noted above. Two of the engines bad deposits wbch were baked harder than Inf any of the other engines examined. The areas of these surfaces. 'Which could be inspected through (he deposits was a dead black. To remove Um deposits which were baked on the tendons and ligaments. Among athleter, especially ball players, he Is regarded as supreme in his specialty and many a diamond star has hustled to the bone setter's home In Toungstown to bo put in shape for the great American sport The other day a patient rushed Into Mr. Heese's office. His arm had been broken In cranking his motor car and the bonesetter had to tlx It up. The cause of the aooldent set Mr. Reese to thinking. He Is an ardent ' motorist. His arms nnd his hands are the chief tools tn his profession, and Invaluable. Wasn't he taking chances and In danger of suffering the same accident as his patient T Surely he was be concluded. The thing for him to do, therefore, was to buy a car that needed no hand-crank- ing, one that had a positive self-cranking device. I Straightway Mr. Ileese bought an Oak land, for he found that the famous "car with a conscience" Is equipped with a Delco electric self-starting, ignition and lighting device and that nil you do Is to press a button when you want to start your engine. Mr. Reese found also that the bg thing about the Oakland starting device waa that it works all the time. Big league stars may therefor bo as sured that Bonesotter Reese will be on the Job thla season as usuat- Tencbcs on Unman Side. The current advertising of the Hupmo ITINERARY OF THE KANSAS STATE AUTO ASSOCIATION Following Is the Itinerary of the Kansas State Automobile association run over the Omaha-Kansas City Scenic route, starting from Kansas City May 9 and arriving at Omaha the next day; Leave Kansas City, Kan., Grand hotel, at T n. in.; arrive at Ioavenworth 9 a. m.; leave Leavenworth 0-S0; n. rn arrive at Atchison at 11.15 for dinner: leave Atchison at 1 p. m.; arrive nt Lancaster at 1:90 p. m.i arrive ICvcrcM at 2:15 p. m.: arrive at Hiawatha at 3:30 v. m . hlght control; leave Hiawatha at 7 3. m.: arrive at Falls city at 5 a. .m; ar rive at. Verdon at 8:45 a. m.: arrive nt HOWe nt 9:30 a. m.: arrive at Auburn at 10 a. m.i arrive at Nebraska City at 11:15 m. for dinner: leave Nebraska Citv at 12:30 p. m.; arrive nt Wyoming at 12:50 p. m : arrive at Plattsmauth at 1:50 p. m.: arrtv nt Fort Crook at p. m ; arrive at South Omaha at 2:45 p. m.; ar rive at Omaha at 3:30 p. m. CARBURETOR COMPANY HAS NEW DEPARTMENT The Wheelor-Schebler Carburetor com pany ot Indianapolis, makers of the Schebler carburetor, has established a publicity department In connection with its advertising department Joe Kelly, well-known Indianapolis newspaper man, a specialist among sporting and automo bile work, has been placed In charge. Auto Truck Stops Cutting Pavements The International Commercial truck la being used by twenty-five grocers In the city of Omaha, and In twenty-five other lines of business, from vacuum cleaning to plumbing, which leaves no room to doubt that tho business requires delivery service realize tho valuo ot motor de livery, Users of motor trucks the country over are protesting against the Imposition of a special tax upon motor trucks. Ono motor truck user argues that a city could well' afford to pay the owners of trucks Instead of taking money away from them, and taxing tho horse users to pro vide the funds. Every motor truck that comes Into use in the city of Omaha means the banish ment of two horses or more. This means reducing to that extent the difficulty and expense of keeping the etreetB ot the city clean nnd protecting the Inhabitants from filth-fostered diseases In this day of war against whatever hinders our cMc Im provements. April 1, is simple. It provides, after divi dends shall have been earned on the pre ferred, and on the common stock, that a fund shall bo set apart for tho purchase, at market price, of common stock of the corporation to bo held In trust for three vear periods and then distributed with i Its earnings ployccs. among participating cm- Knar Cnrlnmln nf Chalmers. The Btowart-Toozer Motor company has received four carloads ot Chalmers "Six" this week and Mr. Toozor reports that In all probability there will be a big shortage ot Chalmers cars this year. MANY EMPLOYES ARE TO SHARE IN PROFITS Operating great plants In Detroit and South Bend with a capitalization of many millions and turning out annually moro automobiles and horse drawn ve hicles than any other organization In tho world, tho Studebakcr Corporation has put into effect a plan whereby certain of Its employes may become stockhold ers and sharo In tho profits ot tho con cern. The plan, which was adopted at a meet ing of the board ot directors, held on Trucks Ilo Urent Work. Two light Studebaker trucks have been steadily at work In Dayton, ever since the flood, operating a transpor tation line between that city nnd Springfield. O., and bringing In a steady stream ot supplies. The trucks wero lent by The Studebakcr Corpora tion and are In charge ot factory drivers. rZfo Kill too Steep Wo Sand too Seep H 1CKS0N CARS If You Want Genuine Bar gaina in Used Cars We Have Them. Cars that aro in porfect condition, thoroughly overhauled. Just out of the paint shop and they are going to be sold. COME AITO BEE THEM AITS 1ST THEM OUT Mclntyre Automobile Co. 8303 rarnam St Omaha, ..... Nebraska AO BORN OffS 2559 Farnam St. Ths Host for the Money W. T. WH.SOK. Aro noted for their ease of Riding. Because our engineers do not build for speed or power or long life alono; they build for comfort, too. They know what makes a car comfortable better, perhaps, than any other engineering staff. They know that a car with tho wheel base of the "Olympic nhould have 34-Inch wheels to be most comfortable. They know thnt full elliptic springs rldo from 33i to 100 per cent easier than any other typo. They know that 10-Inch uphol stery adds to the scat com fort; so we make It that thick, Jackson "Olymplo" 91500 35 horsepower, unit power plant; long-stroko motor 4Vx 4?4 Inches. 116-ln. wheel-base; 34x4-lnch tires. Full ellptlo springs, front and rear. Deep, roomy body, with 10-Inch up holstery. Complete equipment Including Disco Self-starter. PIONEER IMPLEMENT Co Council Blnffs, Zowa. General Western Agents. Ill i HI BEAUTY AND COMFORT NECESSARY IN AN AUTO These are the first things the, automo bile buyer demands, says ait Oakland I manager. A group ot motor car Bianuf&cturitur I executives were discussing the points In I motor car which appeal most to that buyer. It was finally put up to George E. Daniel of the Oakland Motor company, for an opinion as to what essentials coma first in the minds of automobile pur-1 chasers. "Beauty and comfort'1 promptly de clared Mr. Daniels. Others demurred at this. I'm right." aald Mr. Daniels. "Of course, power and reliability are abso lutely essential, but we 4' Know that alt good cars' are powerful .and rtllable. And our reports from our dealers Indicate that the long success of the Oakland Un In rtrong competition is due to the beauty of our cars and the absolute comfort they give In the city and or) the road." II IF ABRAHAM LINCOLN HAD DRIVEN AUTOMOBILE A six-footer, who sank Into the steer-1 Ing seat ot the Midland . teteurely stretched forth his leg and created con siderable amusement by rwarklng, Well, if Abe Lincoln had lived tn the I days of motor cars, he certainly would have had room to stretoh. out his Usa I in this car. It seems to have been built I tor a roan of his size." The Freeland Automobile company haa renewed their contract with the Mid land Motor, company of east Mollne ' for I this territory for the exclusive agency. Tracks Do Great Walk. Two Ught Studebaker trucks hay been I steadily at work at Dayton ever since I the flood, operating a transportation .tine between that city and Springfield, O., I and bringing in a steady stream ot sup- plies. The trucks flfer tent by the fftude. osjcer corporation ana are in ensrare ot factory driver. 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JIKx curUInt, epeedometer, quick detachable rime, two folding nd r rolling occulontl eeiU la tonseeu, foot reit In tonneeu, rear ihock tbeorber, pi held llShU. Pret-0-Ute Usk. oil luape, tuole ul horn. Three ipeeda torward Ud rerorte, tlldlnat gear. Pour cxMnder motor, S 1-4-Ineh tore' and 814-Inch troke; wheelbaie, 1J4 laohea; Jlx4-lnoh tire. Standard color, black. Tnmralsgi, black and Btelral. In, quality-and soundness of construction and materials In style and good looks In ability to cover a stated number of Milee ef read in a day i In atamina and durability Even in paseengcr oapaoity Tke Hupmobile meets tho larger car on a dead lvel of quality. Theae okaraaUrlgtioa aro bo pronounced and kave played so large a part in the wo4t4arfl spread of the Hupmobile 's popaUartty among all classes of oar buy ers tkat the Hupmobile has truly be eene the Oar of the American family. The Big Oftr's Prartige II k Immvm of these qualifications that the HujHHobile meets the approval of sad comes within the reaoh of the man of moderate moans. It is because of them, again, that the man rho drives a ear of higher oost and greater sbe, h glad to invest in a Hup mobile and ir$ud to place it beside his other can, ne matter how famous their ame or how muoh'they coat, Tib .'prestige of the big car for the upkeep of a small one that's what the Hupmo. bile stand for and yoH find ita bene fits aad its pleasures beyond any prloe. The Oat of the American Family It has broadeaed the sooial life of hun dreds y3, thousands of families. It has broken the monotony of city-bound days; it has takao them to the country for week-ends, afternoon picnics, fish ing and hunting trips. Yt has brought them into closer touch with friends who had long remained at the end of a telephone wire or a mail route. It has become, in short, what the oarryall was to many families before the motor .ear came into being. For you and your family, the Hupmobile will do all these things. And if the family numbers more than four, you can have the six-passenger Hup mobile at a slight additional price, and an advance in upkeep that is scarcely noticeable. Tou have long known of the Hupmobile 's reputation for economy. Aside from the initial cost, the Hupmobile will mean important savings in the low oost of maintenance tho rarity of repairs and the small consumption of oil and gaso line for the mileage obtained. The Hupmobile Jb widely noted for its fuel economy; and in this respect we in vite comparison with any other car of equal weight and site. The Hupmobile 's lightness also means longer tire wear Bead what our new factory manager said when he had been through our shops. Our now faotory manager, S. O. Hum phrey, came to the Hupp plant several months a co. After ha had become acquainted with our methods and our shop practice, he said to Qenerml Manager Hastings: "I hare been engaged In the manufacture ot automobiles for some thirteen years, r have bean Intimately In touch with the buBlnons methods employed In fac tories making cars selling at $5,000 down to 5Q0. "In no factory with which I have been connected has the Inspection, from the Initial Inspection of the raw material to the finished car Inspection, been an close and rigid, and the limits ot varla tlon allowed so small, as they are In the Hupp Motor Car Company. "I believe you are spending too much time and money In these departments.' 'It Is Hupmobile policy," Mr. Hastings replied, "and alwayB has been, to bo most strict in these matters. And we have no Intention ot ever abandoning that policy." Hupp Motor Car Company, Detroit, Michigan. And this is only part of the story. 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