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The mechanical engineering of power plants (1906)

Hutton, Frederick Remsen, 1853-1918 · New York, J. Wiley & sons; London, Chapman & Hall, limited · leaf 565

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usedin any case with the fire-brick work. 265. Buck-stays and Tie-rods.—The heat of the fire andits gases causing expansion and deformation of the setting, towhich the expansion of the boiler and its supports may addtheir influence, makes it necessary that the setting should betreated structurally… … walls, and will be used also crosswise between the side walls.The lengthwise tie-rods bear at the front on the outer side of BOILER-SETTING. 507 the front castings, and at the rear either on buck-stays or largewashers, against which they bear by means of a nut on thethreaded ends of the rod. The…

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