THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
MOTORIST
HINTS FOR THE
ALBERT L. CLOUGH
CLEANING TUNGSTEN POINTS.
ROAD MAINTENANCE:
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U. S GASOLINE TAX
(BY ISRAEL KLEIN.) Motor officials in the States ask-
United
What are the states doing with The Tungsten or platinum 4 and I suppose, either the valves points of the ignition make-and- or the piston-rings must be leaky, the receipts they collect from break, the magneto and the re-but cannot tell which. What test motorists in the form of licenses, verso current cut-out of the can I wae to settle this point?registration fees, taxes and other
Ansiver: Remove the spark-revenue! generator become dirty and even- tually wear so rough as to make plug and introduce into the cylin- uncertain contact.
Glass-Hard Tungsten Points. Except on magnetos and some battery cut-out, those paints are usually of tungsten, so hard that they cannot be filed as can the platinum points so generally used
years ago.
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MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
SATURDAY,
--FEBRUARY 20, 1920,
Not All Used,
Out of 30 states deriving a revenus totaling nearly $32,500,000 » year from gasoline taxes, thirty-two apply parts of those funds to high- way work, the kind of state activity, in which the motorist is mostly con- cornod., A little over 80,000,000 is paid out for highway construction and maintenance.
Where does the remaining 812,500,- 000 got
Most receipts from registration fees, licenses and permits, however, go directly into the highway funds stites applied none of these receipts in all states. Only five of the 45 to state road work in any direct from last year.
Twenty-four of the 38 states hav ing gasoline taxation apply all or nearly all those funds to highway work, six spend half these revenues According to statistica compiled og such improvements, two less than. der about a fluid ounce of heavy by the US. Bureau of Public this proportion and the remaining engine oil (air cooled engine of Roads, all this money is not apont four use the receipts for other than
difference goes, in a would be good), replace the plug for the benfit of the motorist highway purposes. and hand-crank the engine with Where the
The matter of conjecture. all other plug removed."
But complaints have been reach heavy oil will seal the piston and if compression is then found to be jing state authorities that motoriste well retained it will indicate that jobject to being taxed for the main- the leak is past the rings. If no tenance of departments from which Honing Tungsten Contacts. Tungsten paints can, however,improvement is noted the leakage they derive no direct benefit. Auto- be smoothed by the use of a stone is through the valves. A leak mobile clubs are fighting just this hone, special small thin forrás of past a piston into the crank-case, system of taxation, yet plans for which are on the market. The can usually be heard as a hissing additional ineaus of taxing motorists roads to maintain and now high- contacts are opened widely enough noise. at the breather (oil-filter) keep cropping up here and there. to admit the hone, each side of opening. A rubber hose, can be which smooths off one of the con-used to listen through. With the tacts, when they are pressed to-exhaust manifold off, an exhausti gether with light pressure and the valve leak can usually be heard hone drawn back and forth beat the exhaust port and inleted a new prion and ring-gear in tween them. No more metal than valve leakage may be audible at
be removed the carburetor air-intake.
necessary "should and the surfaces of the points Caring For Idle Battery. ́ ́ should be left so that, when to- Question: How should a bat- gether, they touch flatly, thus tery be cared for, when it has been making contact over their sur-taken out of the car? I have one | faces,
Driving-Gear Adjustment.
The Sore Spot.
Of course, these fivo states have
ways to build. But whatever is spent for these purposes comes from a general fusul, rather than the specific sources most closely allied to road work 'In these states, there Question: 1 have just install-is way of telling just how much of the motorists' money is spent di- my car and find that the drive rectly for his benefit. is quiet, when the engine is pull- ing, but that it makes a grinu
The sare spot in the distribution. of nuts receipts for the benefit of motorist lies in gasoline taxation.
this form of revenue. Yet three- Auto clube generally have fought fourths of the country has adoptedl it und signs point toward its nation- wide adoption in a few years.
se when the car is conati How can this noise be eliminated? Answer: If you can obtain a that was removed about a month repair manual of this make of car, Smoothing With Sandpaper. ago and is now run down and am you will find this subject much
Auto officials would look upon this Contact points can also be clean-wondering if the plate will be more fully treated than we can!
treat it in a letter. The best outcome with resignation, it only ed and smoothed by means of damaged. piece of fine sandpaper, doubled Auert It will damage the method of adjustment is based this additional reveme were applied with the sanded surface out, which plates of this battery to let it upon coasting the pinion teeth for the beneßt of the motoriets
It is this apparent unfairness that y clubs, are condemning.and conf bnting.
is drawn between them when they stand discharged and if it remains with prussian blue,turning the Now some $13,500,000 of the $32,500,- are lightly held together. A thin, in this condition too long, they will axle by hand and determining the 000 obtained in this way is put to fine jeweller's te is suitable for be ruined. You should have it tooth contact by noting to what some other uso, while the motorist use on magnet points or any fully charged and filled with parts of the ring-gear teeth, the seem to be footing the bills of other points of soft metal, but one liquid and keep it from becoming blue is transferred. These con-departments. should be careful not lo waste discharged until it is installed tact marks should cover from one-" tooth any of the expensive metal. on the ear again. Unless one has third to one-half of the
(Mr. Clough gives some of the some private means of charging, length from the inside or toe of questions he receives from time the best way of caring for such the tooth and the two gears should to time, together with thea battery is to store it, during he adjusted in or out of mesh answers. Thea pear weekly its idle period, at a battery service until this adjustment is obtained. and provide an in tive refer station, where it will be kept The presence of coasting noise ence);
charged and otherwise looked usually inditates that the pinion after. The cost of its service is adjusted too far less toward com-is not great considering, that it the rear of the car. Try setting of my insures the well being of the bat- it a little further forward, check here is tery and its readiness for service fag up the tooth contact by the bm No. whenever it may again be needed. prussian blue method.
Ring Leak of Question: Ox pression in the
six engine, quite an exe
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