The valve-setter's guide; a treatise on the construction and adjustment of the principal valve gearings used on American locomotive (1910)
Kennedy, James, 1848-1922 · New York, A. Sinclair company · leaf 18
ance from the end of the cylinder. The parallel between the action ofsteam pressure and gasoline explosion,however, is not an exact one. The varia-tion is very great, steam being a constantpressure and gasoline explosion an inter-mittent shock. Increasing the amount oflead in the valve of a steam… … SLIDE VALVE SHOWING LEAD. the valves were set with considerable leadis rapidly losing its adherents. This fal-lacy may readily be dispelled by markingthe degree of smoothness with which awell-balanced locomotive will run whenan opportunity occurs to shut off steamaltogether. The alleged shock which…
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