TDC in other languages.

Subject: TDC in other languages.
From: Bradbury Gregory <101762.1703@domain.elided>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 16:44:59 -0400

Fellow digesters,

This is from a table I found in a French collector car magazine  which gave
abbreviations for
valve and flywheel marks and timing in three languages.  I've added the
text to make this a complete
linguistic experience.  For now it's just English, German and French.  It
least now you'll know why a BMW
has OT marked on the flywheel.  It's just TDC in the language of Goethe.

English
        
1.  TDC Top Dead Center
2.  BDC Bottom Dead Center
3.  IO  Intake opens
4.  IC  Intake closes
5.  EO  Exhaust opens
6.  EC  Exhaust closes


German
        
1.  OT  oberer Totpunkt
2.  UT  unterer Totpunkt
3.  EO  Einlass oefnet
4.  ES  Einlass schliesst
5.  AO  Auslass oefnet
6.  AS  Auslass schliesst


French
                
1.  PMH Point Mort Haut 
2.  PMB Point Mort Bas  
3.  OA  Ouverture admission     
4.  FA  Fermature admission     
5.  OE  Ouverture échappement   
6.  FE  Fermature échappement   


Happy tappets to all,

Gregory Bradbury