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PAGE TWELVE THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1919.
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t By FREDERICK C. GUERRLICH, M. E. Make This Yonr Automobile Correspondence School
,N intimate talk on the workinar units of the automobile discussed
.. In such a way that the layman can easily understand them. If In ' readinc these articles, as they aDDear in the Palladium each Sat
urday, there is anything not clear to you, ask Mr. Guerlich about it. An anrwer will be published on the completion of the articles on the section of the automobile under discussion. , Copyrighted. 11T, By Frederick C. Gu.rrlleh.
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A large proportion of engine trouble is duetto the ignition system; but to the man who knows the theory of the system on his car, the location of trouble here Is comparatively easy. Let us see where the trouble might develop. We will take up the primary circuit first, and then the secondary. The first unit In the primary circuit is thee battery, or magneto. The magneto we will study separately, so let us now take up the battery. The battery may be discharged. If t is a dry battery we can determine this by the use of a - volt-ammeter. The battery should not give a reading of less than 10 amperes (never buy a cell giving less than 20). The only remedy for a discharged dry cell is to replace it. ..To tell if a storage - battery is discharged, a hydrometer is used. If the reading is le6 than J 200, the battery needs re.chargingj The battery may be fully
in the primary, the danger of a short circuit is increased, though. Distributor Next Unit.
The distributor is the next unit in
this circuit. Water or oil may cause a short circuit here, as in the interrupter, cleaning being the remedy. The distributer brush may be stuck, thus not making contact, although I want to call your attention to the fact that many instruments are made so that the brush comes within a very short distance from the segment, but does not actually touch the segments. Because of the high voltage the cur
rent will jump this distance and the wearing of the brush is eliminated.
After the distributer come the spark plugs, and they are very often the cause of missing, though seldom of the stopping or failure to start of the engine. These are liable to be short circuited by oil, by carbon or by the breaking of the porcelain Insulation.
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MAIL SERVICE POSTPONEDNEW YORK, June 21. The regular New York-Chicago air mail service which was to have been inaugurated today has been postponed indefinitely. It is explained that the poBtal officials were awaiting the arrival of larger machines. Meanwhile .experiments are continuing at the flying field at Belmont Park, Long Island.
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charged, but the connecting links between the cells loose or dirty, in which case no current would issue therefrom. The battery may be out
of order, which means a Job for the;
battery expert. Next to the battery comes the switch. This is often a source of trouble, as the movable contact arm may have become soft and bent and eo not be making a contact. The remedy is to bend thi3, arm back again, but if the trouble soon returns, it should be replaced. This arm may have become tarnished and dirty, the dirt acting as an insulation. Coil Is Important. After the switch comes the coil. This seldom gives trouble, unless it be abused. With many systems, if the switch be left on while the engine i3 not running, the coil will heat up and the insulation, which often is only waxed paper or silk, will melt and thus ruin the coil. Coil trouble should only be taken to an expert on this kind of work. The next unit after the coil, is the interrupter. Water or oil may have gotten into It, and thus caused it to be short circuited. The remedy is to wipe it dry and thoroughly clean.
The interrupter points may not open or may not make contact. This can be seen by having some one slowly turn over the engine while you watch them. When the roller of the interrupter is against the hammer, or high spot of the cam, the point3 should be open about 1-50 of ah inch, or about the thickness of a visiting card. The Illustration shows the position of the cam when the points are open. When off the hammers of the cam, the points must make contact. In time the interrupter points may become burned, or "pitted," as it is termed. This will offer a resistance to the current and thus cause a weakening of the secondary. This may be sufficient to cause a failure of the spark. To remedy, get a double-faced, thin finger-nail file and insert it between the two points and so file them
both at once. If filed separately, you
may get them as shown in Figure 2
which, if anything, will be worse than
the pitted points. Never Use Hose.
When washing a car, the hose should never be played on It, so the j water will get in through the air cells
of the radiator, the ventslots in the side of the hood, and by getting into the carbureter and ignition units, thus cause trouble. When oiling apparatus connected with an electrical system, care must be taken not to use too much oil, as, by causing a shortcircuit, this may cause more trouble than too little would. One or two cups of oil a month is usually enough. The wires are the cause of more ignition trouble than are the units in the system. They may become loose, broken, or short circuited. The short circuit may be due to the wire becoming oil or water soaked, to the insulation being worn oft at spots, terminals between the binding posts and sometimes, to the fact that the and the insulation have come in contact with the metal of the engine. Short Circuit Let me tell you what is meant by a short circuit. Suppose a doctor ordered you to walk around a park for exercise, and, suppose, that instead of going all the way around you took a path through the park and thus got home so6ner. - You would have taken a short-cut, or short-circuit, and thus not have done the work you were ordered to do.
In the same way, if you try to send
a current of electricity through a wire
a switch, a coil, an interrupter and
then home, instead of the current go
ing through these units, somewhere because of a bare wire, etc., it gets back to the battery before it has, it
will have taken a short-cut or shortcircuit. The remedy for the short cir
cuit is to wrap the bared wire in Insulating tape, or to replace the wire.
Let us see where the secondary may give trouble. Like the primary, the coil may have been burned out, and the wires have become loose or short circuited. Here, however, the loose wire, because of the great voltage, is ,not so liable to cause trouble as it is
Cleaning will remedy the first two, while If the porcelain is broken it can be replaced. It would often be advisable, however, to replace the entire plug. The points of the plug may be too far apart or not far enough apart. With the magneto and distributor they should be about 1-50 of an Inch apart, but with the vibrator coil they may be as far as 1-32 of an inch apart. Having seen the various places where trouble occurs, and how it might occur, we are now ready to see how to go about the determining of Just what and where the trouble might be. This we will take up next.
Bishop Frederick Burgess. Bishop Frederick Burgess, bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Long Island, declares that churches which cannot et congregations are "an encumrance to the city's growth and ought to be taxed." Tie further states that if fat endowments are used as an excuse for the vestries not giving to the cause of missions or paying a laborer's wage to the ministers of Christ, then he trusts the indignant public will order them to be confiscated for the care of the sick and the orphan-.
Chautauqua Ticket Sale
To Open Early In July
W. O. Wissler, secretary of ihe Richmond Chautauqua, will open "his offices in the Y. M. C A. early in July. Offices at the Chautauqua grounds will be opened the first week in August. The price of tickets this year has been increased because of the Increase in price of talent and labor. Adult tickets will be $2 for the season and children's tickets $1. The management has let a contract with Glawe Tent company, of Dayton, for 250 tents. The program will be ready for publication soon.
I Indiana News Brevities
- MICHIGAN CITY While taking his books from school, Raymond Behrens,
11, stopped to bathe m base micnigau and was seized with cramps and
drowned.
A-wrP!T?sniM The 'Rlam PaDer com-
nonv a now .ko ftfto eorooration. has
purchased the property of the former American Aircraft plant and is equipping it with 125,000 worth of new ma
chinery. It will be reaay ior occupancy the latter part of July.
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had donned mourning and prepared to take up with the bureau of war risk insurance the payment of his life insurance, Floyd Winningham has arriv
ed from overseas. He had Deen 01ficially reported dead.
TiiTsrvTT.T.v "Richard O'Neal, who
killed his wife here April 26 by slashing her throat with a razor was found
guilty of first degree murder in circuit court. The verdict carries a death
penalty.
BRAZIL Members of the city coun
cil alleein? that remarks made by
John Walker, of Illinois, here in 1917, were unpatriotic, refused to permit
the use of a city parK ior a iauor demonstration here on June 29. when Walker and Frank Kasten, president of the International Brick and Terra Cotta Workers' Union are to be the speakers. EVANSVILLE Having married John G. Parker, of Philadelphia, following information that her husband.
Charles Barrett, naa iauen in suwu in France, Mrs. Juanna "Valine Barrett Becured an anulment of her mar-
riage to Parker in Vanderberg circuit court, upon the return of her first husband from France. GARRETT Albert W. Beehler, 55, grand patriarch of the Grand Encampment of the I. O. O. F. of Indiana, dropped dead in a garage here. BEDFORD The Rev. Qulncy Short, 66, a graduate of Indiana university. 1878. and Christian church minister in Lawrence and Monroe counties since 1874, dropped dead at his home near Sprlngville in the same building in which he was born. : COLUMBUS Sweethearts of their youth, Miss Ella Duncan for 39 years a school teacher of this city, and William C. King, 61, of Bloomington, were married here.
HUNTINGTON Because the telephone traffic of ordinary party-to-party calls is so heavy, the telephone company has been compelled to give up accommodations such as giving correct time, leaving early morning calls an danswering Inquiries about
fire alarms.
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Anderson and his two sons were in! Fqland's barn when it was struck by! llrhtnfnr Thren horses in the fttallsl
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A large factory for the manufacture of underwear is to be established in Manilla by Filipino and Spanish capitalists.
UNITED STATES RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION PENNSYLVANIA LINES SUNDAY, JUNE 22nd EXCURSION to COLUMBUS SQ 45 Round Including War Tax Trip Special Train leaves Richmond 6:00 a. m., Central Time.
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The 300,000 Maxwells All Tell the Same Story MAXWELL first caught on in those sections of America where grades are long and severe, where roads are none too good, where distances are great, and where few cars before had made good. Today if you could visit those places, those zones some of them hundreds and hundreds of miles in area you would see the Maxwell the prevailing car there. These "Maxwell areas," so to speak, have since spread into nation-wide even world-wide areas for like all things good, news travels fast. Today there's no spot of consequence where Maxwell cannot be found in ever-increasing numbers. Because Maxwell expresses to a marked degree that one quality that every "one seeks in a motor car everlasting reliability. This dominating trait of the Maxwell was built to be its dominating trait Instead of a brand new model every year with frequent, expensive changes in design (changes costly to the purchaser) a very simple Maxwell was designed five years ago. And since that time no radical changes have been made, no new models built, but instead a constant, almost daily improving process has gone on until today the 300,000th Maxwell tells the same story as No. 1. It's a better car, to be sure, more refined, better looking even more reliable, but it would not be half the car it is today were it merely a 1919 model with but one year behind it Stafford Motor Go.
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Generator Repairing, General Overhauling, all kinds of Mechanical Work. Over- ' land and Willys-Knight Cars vr.-n DAVIS-OVERLAND SALES CO. 1209 Main Street Phone 2411
The McConahas Garage 418-420 Maui Street Goodyear Tires Prest-O-Lite Batteries Accessories Mobileoil and Auto Repairing
HUDSON ESSEX NASH STUDEBAKER FEDERAL and NASH Trucks If you want an Automobile See Us
413-415 Main St.
The McConaha Company
Phone 1079
PIEHL AUTO-ELECTRIC CO. Storage Batteries and Ignition Parts
Storage Batteries Auto Electric Supplies Armatures and Coils Rewound
Phones 1891-1893. W. C. Piehl, Mgr. 1024 Main Street Richmond, Indiana
VULCANIZING Tires and Tubes repaired to stand. Tire life more than doubled. Not heat-dried ptaching, but real vulcanizing. Guaranteed not to lump, blister or pull apart. Our repairs always out wear balance of the tire. New and Used Tires for sale Beeson's Tire and Vulcanizing Co., 13 No. 9th
AUTOS WANTED For their parts. We tear 'em up and sen the parts. We have parts of all kinds such as Gears, Axels, Magnetos, Carburetors, Lamps, Windshields. Glass, used Tires and Tubes, Etc. RICHMOND AUTO WRECKING CO.
Phone 2165
Second "and Main
EXPERT MOTOR TRUCK AND TRACTOR REPAIRING When your truck needs repairing and immediate attention, just call us as we have the facilities and are equipped to give It our immediate attention. We are the local representatives for the Clydesdale, Garford, Commerce and Master Motor Trucks the four leading motor trucks sold today.
Cor. N. 12th and E Sts.
THE WELDEX MFG. CO.
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A DEPENDABLE REPAIR STATION Drive your car here if you want first class repair service or accessories. Fair price, prompt service. MILLER BROS. GARAGE 35-37 South Sixth Street Phone 1278
FORD DISTRIBUTORS Ford Automobiles, " Ford Trucks, Accessories, Tires, Oils, Gas and Service Webb-Coleman .Company Authorized Ford Sales and Service 19-21 South 7th Street Phone 1616
Richmond Battery & Radiator Co. Distributors of U. S. L. Storage Batteries
All makes of batteries recharged, repaired and rebuilt. Service free.
12th and Main St Phone 1365
Republic INTERNAL GEAR DRIVE Trucks Will solve your haulage problems. Truck repairing a specialty. STANDARD SUPPLY AND TRANSPORTATION CO. First and Main Streets. . Phone 1069-2459
BUICK AGENCY For ' used cars, see us. We have the best in the county and the prices are reasonable. CHENOWETH AUTO CO. 1134 Main Street Phone 1925
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GATES jukTIRES VULCANIZING Gates More Mileage Tires 1124 Main Street Phone 1595 Tires called for and delivered
Maxwell,-Cole,-Aero Eight-Chalmers See us Before You buy that car STAFFORD MOTOR COMPANY
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1026 Main Street