Take care not to confuse Veblen with his contemporary Max Weber, the inventor of the carburetor.

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My old Sporty has a conventional carburetor, but the current generation of Harley employs fuel injection, too.

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Instead of tearing apart a carburetor or a transmission, Spetter plugs his laptop into the car's computer.

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The carburetor float hung open, and the engine raced for a minute, the wheel jerking, until the engine sputtered and died, extinguishing the headlight.

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As he understood it, the carburetor had loosened on its fixing.

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Are men just naturally better at unplugging a drain, running a snake through your aging pipes or understanding how your carburetor should be working and how to fix it?

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After dismantling its brake drums, carburetor, motor head and oil pan to sand off the rust, he gave the refurbished car to his mother in exchange for lifts on his newspaper route.

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The Model T Ford when introduced by Henry Ford in 1908 could be ordered with an adjustable Holley carburetor that could be adjusted to run on either gasoline or ethanol.

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And you only have to look under the hood or crawl beneath the car to see a technological nightmare: A low-compression flathead V-8, cloth wrapped wires, a crude carburetor, leaf springs and no shocks, big mechanical brakes that were about as useful as an anchor, and a differential the size of a melon, to appreciate that this car was a polluting, rattling, death trap.

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