Twentieth century hand-book for steam engineers and electricians with questions and answers; a practical non-technical treatise .. (1913)
Swingle, Calvin Franklin, 1846- [from old catalog] · Chicago, F. J. Drake & company · leaf 529
eralyears with the valves in the condition shown by the di-agram^ and in the meanwhile^ the load having been in-creased from time to time^ the engine finally refused torun up to speed and something had to be done. Thesuperintendent of the plant said that he had an idea thatsomething was the matter… … Fig. 203 the trouble was unequal cut off. After equalizing the cutoff and increasing the lead on the crank end by a smallfraction diagram Fig. 204 was taken^ and after this theengine gave no further trouble. The depression in thesteam lines might have been rectified to some extent by in-creasing…
