Locomotive engine running and management : a treatise on locomotive engines, showing their performance in running different kinds of trains with economy and dispatch; also directions regarding the care, management, and repairs of locomotives and all their connections (1888)
Sinclair, Angus, 1841-1919 · New York : J. Wiley · leaf 244
centrics both incline towards the crank-pin, and theeccentric which is controlling the valve follows the crank-pin. Thus, when the engine is running forward, F fol-lows the crank : when she is backing, B follows. It is a good plan for an engineer to make himselffamiliar with the proper position of… … Fig. 10. a minutes inspection is always sufficient to decidewhether or not any thing is wrong with the eccentrics. ANGULARITY OF CONNECTING ROD. In following out the relative motion of the piston andcrank, we discover a disturbing factor in what is calledthe angularity of the connecting rod, which…
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