Locomotive engine running and management .. (1899)
Sinclair, Angus, 1841-1919 · New York, J. Wiley & sons; [etc., etc.] · leaf 288
he rods is in-evitable. This fact is worth imprinting on the mem-ory, for I have known of several cases where men gotthe rods up wrong by putting them open when theengine stood with the crank on the back center. MARKING THE VALVE-STEM. In ordinary practice, valves are set with the steam-chest cover… … Fig. 17. thin piece of tin being generally used to gauge theopening. When the valve stands in this position, atram is extended from a center punch-mark c, on thestuffing-box, straight along the valve-stem as far as itwill reach ; and the point, here located at a, is marked.The valve is then moved…
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