Valve setting: simple methods of setting the plain slide valve. Meyer cut-off. Corliss. and poppet types (1908)
Collins, Hubert Edwin, 1872- · New York [etc.] Hill publishing company · leaf 129
valves can first be evened up, before theireccentric is tightened upon the shaft, by rolling the eccentric around theshaft to its extreme throw at each end. It should then be set so that the 118 VALVE SETTING port is just closed when the crosshead has traveled a little less than seveneighths of its… … FIG. 119. the movement of the wrist cranks by the right and left nuts in the valverod, so that in a revolution of the engine shaft they rock evenly each sideof a vertical line drawn from centers of their shafts; set the engine ex-actly on the head center and move the small valve rod attached to…
Steam-engines
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