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on the inside of the connecting rod eye brought aboutthe breaking of the rod and extensive damage to the head of the highpressure cylinder and other parts of a cross-compound steam engineat an Eastern plant. When the eye of the rod failed, the piston wascarried to the forward end of the cylinder… … Figure 4—Typical break of the rod-end in a large Corliss engi always a temptation to straighten it. However, in the event of seriousdistortion, subsequent straightening may set up unusual stresses, ifnot actually cause minute cracks, so that competent engineers shouldbe called in to study the…
Locomotives · Steam-boiler explosions
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