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The mechanical engineering of power plants (1897)

Hutton, Frederick Remsen, 1853- [from old catalog] · New York, J. Wiley & sons; [etc., etc.] · leaf 370

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ht or unbalanced effect ofthe mechanism. Some designers have built up cast-ironcounterweights upon a wrought-iron crank. Fig. 284 showsan arrangement of this sort. When there are two cylinders to work upon one crank-shaft and it is to be a continuous or double crank, the doublecrank will be forged… … a lathe of sufficient size. Of course it is not easy to forgesuch cranks with short distance between them, nor is it easy 334 MECHANICAL ENGINEERING OF POWER PLANTS. to get them truly at right angles. Built-up crank-shafts,where the crank-pins and lengths of shafting are separate orfastened…

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