The following listed books are my pick of the gas engine books and service manuals, placed in my own inventory with same day shipping for your ordering convenience. Foreign buyers Please Click Here.

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Gas Engines & Producer Gas Plants

A practical treatise setting forth the principles of gas-engines and producer design, the selection and installation of an engine, conditions of perfect operation, producer gas engines and their possibilities, the care of gas engines and producer gas plants, with a chapter on volatile hydrocarbon and oil engines. Click the cover. 314 5x8 pages. (Foreign or Priority orders: additional shipping required.)

American Machinist Memories - Engines of 1899

Selected articles from early issues of American Machinist Magazine. Steam engines and internal combustion engines of both two and four cycle design. Click the cover. 48 5x8 pages.

Recent Developments in Large Gas Engine Design

Selected articles from 1909 issues of Cassier's Magazine. Photos of the old engine room installations. Snow 3,000 HP twin tandem and others. Cross section drawings. Click the cover. 64 5x8 pages.

Domestic Engines

Domestic Engine and Pump Company, Shippensburg, PA. Catalogue No. 15. Complete listing of all products including drawings and specifications 6" X 9", 48 Pages.

American Machinist Memories

BABBITT 1910-1916 Practical hints, tips and "how to" for manipulating white bearing metal. Methods used in Babbiting bearings, anchor holes, arbors, linings, making Babbitt, pouring, handling, fixtures and molds. Click the cover. 72 5x8 pages.

BABBITT, HINTS ON LINING BEARINGS

7 page reprint on tinning, pouring, etc. If you plan to pour Babbitt, you shouldn't start without the tips given in this booklet written by the old masters at the Hoyt Metal Company. Everything from reusing Babbit, how to heat it, how to cool it and how to pour it.

Learning the Lost Art of Hand Scraping from Eight Classic Machine Shop Textbooks. Appleton's Cyclopaedia of Applied Mechanics, Modern Practice of American Machinists & Engineers, Rome's Modern Machine Shop Practice, ICS Reference Library, Modern Machine Shop Tools, Machine Shop Tools and Methods, Cyclopaedia of Engineering, Machinery's Encyclopaedia. Click the cover. 48 5x8 pages.

Gas Engine Magazine INDEX 1983 - 1987 Just what you need to dig through those back issues of G.E.M. for articles and photos. A picture and subject locator by Donald L. Siefker.

Gas Engine Magazine INDEX 1988 - 1992 A picture and subject locator by Donald L. Siefker. Click the book for a larger image.

AMERICAN BOSCH MAGNETO

Instructions No. 2550 for AB 33 Ed. 1 as used on Fairbanks Morse engines. Operation, timing, care and maintenance, illustrated parts list. Laser reproduction of original. 4" X 10", 10 pages.

WICO EK MAGNETO

1934 instruction book, type EK Wico magnetos. Complete instructions and parts list, including drives, armature and points, adjustments. 8-1/2" x 11", 7 pages including 12 illustrations, type set and professionally laser copied.

THE FARM CUSHMAN ENGINE 40 page reprint of 1914 Cushman Motor Works catalog. 2-color cover, details engines and accessories: 4 HP, 6-8 HP & 20 HP gas engines, illustrations.

FULLER & JOHNSON 1926 Manual reprint for how to operate the farm pump gasoline engine. Includes parts and price list. 16 pages including 12 drawings and illustrations. Set-up and operating instructions, ignition, governor, timing, parts list and layout, Wico magneto option.

THE FARM PUMP ENGINE FULLER & JOHNSON catalog reprint, circa 1910, Farm pump engine with many illustrations and testimonials. Photos, details of construction, uses and general info. 32 pages of information and construction details including 30 b&w photos, drawings and illustrations.

IHC TOM THUMB ENGINE Directions for setting up and operating the 1HP air-cooled engine. Price list and illustrations of repair parts, ignition, 8 pages.

I.H.C. Vertical Tank-Cooled Gasoline Engines. Ignitions, parts layout drawings, parts list, pictorial drawing with original part numbers including tools, truck, pump jack.

FAIRBANKS-MORSE OIL ENGINES Cat. No. 80H. Reprint from 1914 edition of 80H which originally appeared in 1912. Detailed drawings & specifications throughout. Don't miss this one - the drawings and illustrations are excellent! 14 pages of T - verticals in full detail, 77 pages overall, Type H, Jack of all Trades, Portables on trucks, Type NB, Oil Tractors, Lighting Plants, Motors, Pumps, Compressors, Mills, Saw rigs and frames, Ignitions. Click the book for an inside page.

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