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    Engine lubrication

    Feb 27, 2019 2 minutes
    Words: RICHARD ROSENTHAL

    Sight feed lubricators:

    Not a pump and therefore shouldn’t be included… but found on pioneer motorcycles. Commonplace with stationary engines, industrial equipment and almost anything else that needed oiling, although now replaced by automatic systems.

    By design they are reservoirs (from tiny to huge) of oil that is flowed onto/into the site needing lubrication.

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