Reverse-engineering a naturally-aspirated Lunenburg Foundry carburetor

The Lunenburg Foundry, based out of Nova Scotia, is a well-known manufacturer for early 20th century marine engines made famous by its Atlantic Marine Engine. This engine revolutionized the fishing industry along the Atlantic coast of Canada by creating a sort of "iron sail" for fisherman and sailors. The goal of this thesis is to reverse-engineer a naturally-aspirated Lunenburg Foundry carburetor from the Atlantic engine. The actual carburetor at MIT is one of few in existence, and has no accompanying patterns or drawings. The carburetor was disassembled and each part carefully measured by hand. A CAD assembly was developed of the entire carburetor to serve as an engineering database for future manufacturing and study.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2018

Author dc:creator

• Hinton, Zoe Lynne

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Daniel Braunstein.

• Mechanical Engineering.

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• MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

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eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/119954

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/119954