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
he 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 thehead valve… … FIG. 120. set the other valve in the same way. After the valves are thus set asclosely as possible they should, if practicable, be adjusted by use of theindicator when the engine is under partial or full load, as no mere meas-urements can ever set the valves exactly right in any engine. The…
Steam-engines
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