When assembling an engine, you will need a ring compressor to squeeze the rings together on a piston to fit the piston and rod combination into the bore. While the adjustable squeeze-the-handle ...

THE paper by H. 0. Farmer on “Free-Piston Compressor-Engines”, read before the Institution of Mechanical Engineers on December 6, must have been for many their first introduction to the subject, as ...

An engine with no crankshaft, where the pistons float on air? It’s not a dream; it’s a free piston engine and it might be the next major advance in car tech. When we think of automotive technology of ...

ITASCA, Ill., Oct. 1, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- PneuTech, a leading brand of compressed air and nitrogen generation equipment, is proud to announce the release of its new PF Series Piston Air Compressors.

Piston compression height is the distance between the centerline of the pin to the flat part of the top of the piston. It's important to know this number when ordering pistons--especially custom ones- ...

The capacity of a compressor is measured in Btu per hour (Btuh) or Btu per minute (Btu/min). Remember, there are 12,000 Btuh or 200 Btu/min in one ton of refrigeration. The capacity of a piston-type ...

High-output engines live in a world of brutal cylinder pressures, extreme temperatures and razor-thin safety margins, and the humble piston sits at the center of that storm. When power levels climb, ...