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richarddurgee
Senior Member
Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 3347
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 23, 2014 - 02:56 pm: | 
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Old Barber twin ca(1905-07)I bought at a central
Florida antique flea market about 20yrs ago.
Barbers were 3 port engines and it caught my eye that this one had been converted to two port ?
Removing the head revealed piston with two deflectors ?
Very small pistons 3 inch diameter, also found
the rear cylinder was missing the small deflector
All The rings on both pistons were broken !
Cylinders are in very good condition considering the obvious hard life they endured .
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gregoryan
Senior Member
Username: gregoryan
Post Number: 117
Registered: 09-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 23, 2014 - 09:14 pm: |
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Great looking engine! Do the cylinder heads have any cooling/ waterjacketing?/ or it just dissipates the heat through the mating surface? |
jb_castagnos
Senior Member
Username: jb_castagnos
Post Number: 939
Registered: 07-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 23, 2014 - 10:54 pm: |
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Richard, looks like the deflector is on the exhaust side, don't know why they put it, don't think you'll miss it. |
richarddurgee
Senior Member
Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 3348
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, July 24, 2014 - 10:09 am: |
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These (Hot Heads) are solid iron no water to them,
very common on early turn of the century engines,
Kerosene engines also used them to keep upper cylinder hotter to ignite fuel mixture !
J.B. I have wondered what the Barber Bros had in mind when they designed these pistons, they were one of the earliest mfgrs to use the three port system ?
I have also never found any reference to a Barber engine with this small of a piston ?
Any one seen other pistons with dual deflectors ?
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keith
Senior Member
Username: keith
Post Number: 424
Registered: 02-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, July 24, 2014 - 12:58 pm: |
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Paul Gray restored a similar Barber that he displayed at 2003 Calvert. |
richarddurgee
Senior Member
Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 3349
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, July 24, 2014 - 03:37 pm: |
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What I could find on file !
This was a larger bore than the above engine.
Maybe Paul will remember about the deflector ?
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