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 274
d eccentric-rod is at the opposite end,crossing of the rods is inevitable. This fact is worthimprinting on the memory, for I have known of severalcases where men got the rods up wrong by puttingthem open when the engine stood with the crank onthe back center. MARKING THE VALVE-STEM. In ordinary… … Fig. 17. just beginning to open the forward steam-port; a thinpiece of tin being generally used to gauge the opening.When the valve stands in this position, a tram is ex-tended from a center punch-mark c, on the stuffing-box,straight along the valve-stem as far as it will reach ; andthe point, here…
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