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Starting a Lazair II ultralight aircraft's JPX PUL 425 engine, equipped with a recoil starter. A rope start device housed in a Nose bullet of a Junkers Jumo 004 turbojet.. Rope start (also called pull start [citation needed] or rewind start [citation needed]) is a method of starting an internal combustion engine, usually on small machines, such as lawn mowers, chainsaws, grass trimmers ...
The starter was of the rope-recoil type similar to lawn mowers [1] [8] [9] or the Lambretta E model. [10] Unlike most scooters with enclosed engines, the Topper's engine did not have a cooling fan. [ 2 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] It was expected that the low, horizontally mounted engine would be cooled by air passing under the scooter, [ 2 ] but some Toppers ...
The Coffman engine starter (also known as a "shotgun starter") was a starting system used on many piston engines in aircraft and armored vehicles of the 1930s and 1940s. It used a cordite cartridge to move a piston, which cranked the engine.
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Stanley is recalling 2.6 million mugs sold in the U.S. after the company received dozens of consumer complaints, including some users who reported getting burned and requiring medical attention ...
A muzzle brake or recoil compensator is a device connected to, or a feature integral (ported barrel) to the construction of, the muzzle or barrel of a firearm or cannon that is intended to redirect a portion of propellant gases to counter recoil and unwanted muzzle rise. [1] Barrels with an integral muzzle brake are often said to be ported.
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In non-recoil-operated firearms, it is generally the entire firearm that recoils. However, in recoil-operated firearms, only a portion of the firearm recoils while inertia holds another portion motionless relative to a mass such as the ground, a ship's gun mount, or a human holding the firearm. The moving and the motionless masses are coupled ...