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retor is not adjustable (for air) hold your hand over the air passage so as to exclude the cold air and the engine will start much easier. If not convenient to use your hand, wrap a cloth around the air passage until the engine starts. I had an unusual experience with an engine a few days ago. The engine was running nicely when it suddenly stopped and refused to start. The spark was tested and found unusually good and the gasoline supply was found to be all right as the vapor came through the exhaust but not burnt. The sparker was taken off and appeared at first to be all right but on close examination I found that one of the igniter points slipped back out of position and was too short to make contact with the other. If I had been a new hand with an engine I would have had to send for an expert. The rods that the points are attached to sometimes get gummed on the outside and stick together so that the engine fails to fire. They should be kept clean on the outside as well as the points inside of the cylinder. Salem, Ind.

OMER G. SMITH.

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Tonight while looking over GAS REVIEW, I chanced to note the question of "I. R. B." in the January, 1913, issue. His trouble was so exactly like mine that I looked the second time at the heading to see if by some possibility it could be a letter I wrote some time ago. I spent some money on so-called experts in vain.

I put on a new commutator and inspected every part that in any way pertained to ignition, even taking the wiring out of the coil box, without locating the trouble, then I found the trouble

in the carburetor. The carburetor on my engine is a Kingston, having five ball valves in top for an auxiliary air inlet. Beside the troubles experienced by "I. R. B." my car would miss fire when thrown on high, especially on a grade. This was what gave me an idea as to the trouble, i. e., not sufficient velocity to the air to prevent gasoline pocketing somewhere, and in my case it found its way into cylinder No. 1, keeping plug No. 1 foul and having too poor a mixture to ignite easily.

One day I took the car out after placing a small piece of leather under the cap and on top of the ball of the auxiliary air vent. I noticed an improvement in the working of two, three and four. I kept closing until I had closed three and only two remained open, when cylinder No. 1 got to work and kept at the job. This was late last fall and I only drove the car about thirty miles, but it worked so fine I am sure I located the trouble. Of course, I may lose power in hill climbing on high engine speed, owing to n light air supply, but I took five heavy hills on the test trip and the engine power was good.

I am unable to account for the fact that when I cross wired from the commutator to the coil and from the coil to the plug, cylinder No. 1 would fire and No. 2 would miss, while changing the coil units made no difference.

Ignition seems to be the weak point in the Ford car, using a low tension current and a poor coil furnishing a spark that will work under ideal conditions, but not hot enough for cold weather and poor carburetion.

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Enclosed please find fifty cents for which send me GAS REVIEW. I have taken your magazine for two years and would not like to be without it. I have found a good many pointers which have enabled me to overcome nearly all of my engine troubles. I have a 20-horse power single cylinder I. H. C. engine and a 27x42 Aultman-Taylor separator, shredder and grinder. I also pull five fourteen-inch plows with harrow attached. I have run this engine for three years and have had very little trouble.

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Gasoline Engine, Automobile, Motor Cycle, Mechanical, Machinists, Blacksmith, Electrical, Engineering, Shop and Farm Kinks, Hints, Methods of Doing Many Things, Data, Short Cuts, Formulas that save you dollars, etc., every month. Booster and Trouble Depts. Experience and ideas sent in by subscribers. 99% of the subscribers renew. 25% of them paid 8 years in advance because they like it. SPECIAL OFFER: A copy of our Mechanical Kink Book, that every mechanic ought to have, and 1 year for 50c, or Gas Review and Digest both for 1 year 50c.

THE MECHANICAL DIGEST, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
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STERLING

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for anyone who uses a gas engine. Tells strength of batteries all the time. Every engine user should have one. Worth ten times its cost the FIRST time there is engine trouble.

Beautifully Nickel-Plated. Most Accurate Made. Guaranteed for Two Years. Ammeters (for dry batteries)

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The Sterling Manufacturing Co., Cleveland, Ohio

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Please mention Gas Review when writing. FOR SALE-Big bargain-Three 2-H. P. U. hopper cooled engines; brand new. Price only $32.50. For quick sale. Jack Munday, Lansing, Mich.

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Please mention Gas Review when writing. FOR SALE-One four-bottom P. & O. Mogul engine gang, new; an attractive price. Hume Manufacturing Co., Hume, Ill.

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FOR SALE-One portable grain tank, 250 bushels; saw mandrels; 3-H. P. gasoline engine. J. A. L., Box 39, Fairfax, Minn.

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FOR SALE OR TRADE for a four-hole sheller-a 16H. P. Waterloo portable gasoline engine. Chas. Davenport, Odebolt, Iowa.

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FOR QUICK SALE-75-H. P. Case steam tractor, fine shape. Used less than fifty days. Price $600. M. S. Stimson, Roodhouse, Ill.

Please mention Gas Review when writing. ENGINE FOR SALE-30-H. P. Foos special electric throttling oil engine with 32x8 clutch pulley, mag. neto, No. 1 air starting equipment; used about three months. Absolutely as good as new in every particular. Reason for selling, changed to electric drive. Engine can be seen running. A splendid outfit at a bargain. Sumter Electrical Co., Sumter, S. C.

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Brand new Rider-Lewis four cylinde 4x4 inch 30-H. P. gasoline engine, complete with Schebler carburetor, Splitdorf magneto, friction clutch and oil pump water cooled; built extra heavy weight 500 pounds. Price $100. A. R. Piehn, Alta Vista, Iowa Please mention Gas Review when writing.

FOR SALE-One 20-H. P. Flour City gas tractor and complete thirty-two inch Belle City separator at bargain. Both in A No. 1 condition. Will take good secondhand auto as part payment. Carl Messelt, Win ger, Minn. Please mention Gas Review when writing.

FOR SALE-20-H. P. Brown portable gasoline engin with friction clutch, pulley, magneto, screen coole system with circulating pump, steel trucks. Fine con dition. Price $335.00. Badger Motor Co., Milwaukee Wis.

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PATENTS SECURED C. L. Parker, Patent Attorney 970 G St., Washington, D. C. Inventors' handbook sent upon request. Please mention Gas Review when writing. WANT TO TRADE-25-45 Rumely Oil Pull for a 15-30 Oil Pull or Fairbanks-Morse tractor. J. M. Chicome Jefferson, S. D.

Please mention Gas Review when writing. CHEAP FOR CASH-30-H. P. two or four passenge auto, 118 inch wheel base. Engine needs overhauling Address Lock Box 116, Stephen, Minn.

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$2.00 brings circular containing all photos and ful specifications how to build 2- to 10-H. P. gas tracto out of old mowers and binders at home. Somethin worth while. Address Joe E. Almquist, Essex, Iowa. Please mention Gas Review when writing. WANT YOU to buy or sell our portable farm elevator and other useful farm machinery and articles for the farm; also power washing machinery. Wenzelmann Mfg Co., Galesburg, Ill.

Please mention Gas Review when writing. PATENTS-Ralph N. Flint, M. E., Attorney at Law i Patent Causes; late Assistant Examiner Internal Com bustion Engine Division, U. S. Patent Office. Specialis in internal combustion engine cases. 15 William St. New York, N. Y. Please mention Gas Review when writing. PATENTS Herbert Jenner, patent attorney and me chanical expert, 606 F St., Washington, D. C., estab lished 1883. I make a free examination and report 1 a patent can be had and exactly what it will cost. Sen for circular. Please mention Gas Review when writing.

USE AN AIR FRICTION with new 1914 improvements Increase power and economy of motor one-half. Ab solutely impossible to choke or load like other carbu retors. Uses distillate, gasoline or half kerosene with finest results. Starts easy in coldest weather. We fi all motors, guaranteeing definite results or refund money Exclusive county rights. Special price first order. Lib eral exchange on other carburetors. The Air-Friction Carburetor Co., Dayton, Ohio.

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AUTOMOBILE BARGAIN LIST-Rambler one cylinder touring, $50.00. Ford 1908 runabout, $125.00. Reo 1911 touring, $400.00. Ford 1912 touring, $375.00. Whiting four cylinder roadster, $250.00. Act now or the one you have in mind will be gone. Postal brings catalog. The Schoelkopf Garage, Madison, Wis.

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OLD SILE'S BARGAIN COUNTER.-The following list of articles are offered at a fractional portion of their real value for the purpose of scrapping them out before making our annual inventory. Every article is as represented. Select what you want and send your check or draft with order. If already sold, your money will be refunded. You cannot duplicate these articles at the prices offered and it will be unnecessary to write for any other prices or terms. These goods belong to Old Sile and are as represented in every case: One No. 6 secondhand Remington typewriter, $20; regular price new, $100. One secondhand No. 4 Smith Premier typewriter, used in this office; worth $100 new; price $25. One secondhand No. 2 Smith Premier typewriter; used in this office; regular price, $100 new; scrapping price, $25. One Manhattan rebuilt Remington typewriter; used considerably but in running order; $15 cash. One hundred Universal wrenches; regular price, $2 each; will scrap these out at seventy-five cents each. Twenty fireless cookers, new regular price, $7 each; scrapping price, $5 each. Fifty High Flyer aeroplanes for boys; will sail six hundred feet high; scrapping price, forty cents each. All these articles are F. O. B. Madison and cash with order. Address Old Sile, care of Gas Review, Madison, Wis. Please mention Gas Review when writing.

WHO WANTS A FARM?-Old Sile bought an eightyacre farm a while ago, located in Ashtabula County, Ohio. Old Sile looked it over the other day. It has a small four-room house with good cellar, good sized barn, tool house, granary, sugar house with apparatus for making maple sugar, including about three hundred sugar buckets. Fences need repairing. Enough chestnut rails to reset about one-half the fences. Forty acres in cultivation, forty acres pasture land, without a waste acre on the tract. Between seven and eight hundred sugar maples, besides chestnut bearing trees. Orchard includes apple, peach and plum trees, all bearing fruit. Best of water. Ideal farm, especially for dairy purposes. Milk route right by the door, also rural free delivery. Eight miles from good town with railway facilities; two miles from country village. This farm needs fixing up, which is now being done. Splendid tenant on premises. The price of this farm is $8,000, with buildings, fences and all overhauled, or $7,000 as it stands, allowing $1,000 to purchaser to do his own fixing up. One-third or more down, balance on as long time as desired at six per cent, interest payable semi-annually. A bargain for a worker. No place for a drone. If you are the right man and can scare up the cash payment, talk, otherwise keep still. Old Sile's Bargain Counter, care of Gas Review, Madison, Wis.

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A test of wireless telegraphy between moving trains and railroad stations was recently made on the Lackawanna Railroad on a regular express train running between New York City and Buffalo. Although this test was really a preliminary one it showed possibilities which, when developed further, may mean a revolution in the operation of trains comparable to that which followed the introduction of the ordinary wire telegraph.

With wireless telegraphy, trains will be in communication with stations regardless of line breaks from winter blizzards or from washouts, fog which obscures signals and other extraordinary conditions. The Lackawanna railroad has wireless telegraphy stations at Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Binghampton, New York, with a working radius of about three hundred miles.

The special usefulness of the system was indicated recently when the conductor of the train which is in communication with the stations, was taken ill thirty miles from the station. A message was sent on ahead and when the train arrived at Scranton there was another conductor there

to take the place of the one who was sick. This eliminated the delay of waiting for the relief conductor after the train had arrived at the station.

It is reported by the Bureau of Education that the boys in the Ishpeming, Michigan, high school repair the school building for pay, conduct a cooperative school farm for profit, and are about to erect a gymnasium for their own use from plans drawn by high school seniors. All this work is done under the direct supervision of the school authorities. Students from the manual training department of the high school are regularly employed in work on school buildings, repairing roofs, laying cement floors, building brick walls, and installing plumbing fixtures. During one summer three thousand dollars were thus paid for student labor.

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