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 276
ES. 251 FINDING THE DEAD CENTERS. The best way of finding the true center is by movingthe cross-head a measured distance round its extremetravel, recording the extent of movement on the driv-ing-wheel tire, whose motion is uniform ; then bisectingthe distance between the marks on the tire, when… … rr=rr.^^^J Fig. i8. extend a tram on the cross-head, and mark the extremepoint reached b. Put a center punch-mark c on thewheel-cover, or other convenient fixed point, and fromit extend a tram on the edge of the tire, and scratch anarc d. Now, with tram in hand, watch the cross-head,and have the…
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