Twentieth century handbook for steam engineers and electricians, with questions and answers; a practical nontechnical treatise on the care and management of steam engines, boilers and electric machinery (1922)
Swingle, Calvin Franklin, 1846- [from old catalog] · Chicago, F. J. Drake & company · leaf 402
posedbetween the eccentric and the valve. The first step in the operation of valve setting is to placethe engine on the dead center^ which means that the pistonis at the end of the stroke^, and the centers of the mainshafts crank pin and crosshead pin^ or wrist pin, as it issometimes called, are in… … Fig. 131 motion or looseness m the reciprocating parts. Turn thefly wheel around until the crosshead is almost to the endof the stroke, say within a half inch of it, as at Fig. 131.Then with a steel scriber or penknife mark the locationof the crosshead on the guides A, also provide a secure…
