When assembling an engine, you will need a ring compressor to squeeze the rings together on a piston to fit the piston and rod combination into the bore. While the adjustable squeeze-the-handle ...

This could lead to smoother running engines, and it's a sign the TFG engine's story isn't over.

THE paper by H. 0. Farmer on “Free-Piston Compressor-Engines”, read before the Institution of Mechanical Engineers on December 6, must have been for many their first introduction to the subject, as ...

The capacity of a compressor is measured in Btu per hour (Btuh) or Btu per minute (Btu/min). Remember, there are 12,000 Btuh or 200 Btu/min in one ton of refrigeration. The capacity of a piston-type ...