Talk:Transfer port

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This really needs a better target at least, perhaps to a section of the Two-stroke engine article, but there isn't a suitable heading there at present.

Or perhaps this should even become an article in its own right. See also Talk:Exhaust port. Andrewa (talk) 15:25, 29 May 2012 (UTC)


 * We need an article on crankcase compression engines, and it would be better as a redirect to that. Andy Dingley (talk) 15:28, 29 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Agree.


 * I see there's already a redirect from Crankcase-compression two-stroke petrol engine to Two-stroke engine (and that it's your work).


 * IMO there is room for a refactor of the Two-stroke engine article, and in particular some lower-level articles of which that would be one. Other suggestions are Timeline of the development of the two-stroke engine and History of the two-stroke engine. But the Crankcase compression engine article might easily be the most helpful. Most of us learn that one first and see the other designs as variations of it (perhaps not all that accurately).


 * There's not a lot of history in the existing article, and IMO we need an overview of the types of two-stroke, and Two-stroke engine is the obvious place for it, but the article is a bit too long already.


 * And History of the internal combustion engine has only four events listed after 1960, three of them relating to scotch yoke patents and the fourth to the scramjet. I guess the rest of the world has been wasting their R&D money since then... (->


 * Lots to do... Andrewa (talk) 17:10, 29 May 2012 (UTC)


 * A redir from crankcase scavenging would also be useful IMO. But we need a target for it! Andrewa (talk) 17:15, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
 * What on earth is "crankcase scavenging"? Andy Dingley (talk) 17:32, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
 * See Hot bulb engine Most hot bulb engines were produced as one-cylinder low-speed two-stroke crankcase scavenging units and Two-stroke engine The crankcase-scavenged engine, employing the area below the piston as a charging pump, is generally credited to Englishman Joseph Day (both links to the now-current versions, and both quotes with my emphasis added). I'm not suggesting that this should be an article name, but it seems a common enough term for a redirect to be helpful. Andrewa (talk) 21:18, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
 * This sort of half-assed nonsense is why Wikipedia isn't RS for other articles. Describing this as crankcase scavenging is a serious misunderstanding. 8-(   Andy Dingley (talk) 21:49, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
 * It's a fairly common term, see http://www.motorera.com/dictionary/cr.htm Crankcase scavenging A system in a two-stroke engine where the fresh charge is induced into the cylinder by way of the crankcase and the transfer ports. Agree it's misleading, but English doesn't always make sense, for example French toast is neither French nor toast. Another possible term for it is crankcase induction, but that doesn't appear anywhere in Wikipedia currently, so maybe a redirect there isn't going to be useful. But it's not misleading in the same way as crankcase scavenging and it does appear elsewhere e.g. http://www.viper-racinguk.co.uk/html/cr_250_engines.html Superstock CR250 Crankcase Induction sealed engine. I've a sneaking suspicion though that crankcase induction may be ambiguous, but I could be wrong there, I can't think of another meaning right now. Andrewa (talk) 02:56, 30 May 2012 (UTC)