crankshaft
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crankshafts
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Origin of crankshaft
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Throw in a flat-plane crankshaft, low-inertia turbos and equal-length exhaust runners and you’ve got a hurricane on a dimmer switch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
A flaming ear of corn transforms into a crankshaft.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026
Then, in January 2016, came the first "thermal incident" - a police car fire caused by the same crankshaft bearing issue that later affected PC Dumphreys' car.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2023
If you didn’t know a carburetor from a crankshaft, you could never be sure you weren’t getting ripped off.
From Washington Post ● May 24, 2022
True, I am pretty good at fixing things that break, but I cannot repair a shattered crankshaft.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
Around the time of the boil-water advisories, workers at a General Motors plant in Flint noticed rust forming on engine crankshafts and blocks.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 3, 2018
On Aug. 9 it passed through the Suez Canal, and a week later it arrived in Rotterdam, its containers full of televisions and action figures, DVD players and crankshafts, chairs, tables, shirts, and shoes.
From BusinessWeek ● Sep. 5, 2013
“But you really need to do some more things to the engine — forged rods, steel crankshafts and so forth -– to ensure durability,” Mr. Reinert said.
From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2010
Businessmen donated steel barrels and alcohol drums, plywood, motors and parts from vacuum cleaners, small crankshafts from outboard motors.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is equipped with special adjustable headstock and tailstock fixtures designed to take crankshafts having strokes up to about 6 inches.
From Turning and Boring A specialized treatise for machinists, students in the industrial and engineering schools, and apprentices, on turning and boring methods, etc. by Franklin D. Jones
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