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 189
-, and 60-in. stroke. First set the wrist plates central and clamp them in place; then adjustthe lengths of the rods so that the steam valves are open 11. in.,as shown in Fig. 178, and the exhaust valves are lapped ^ in. Ifthe rod lengths are right the center lines of the cranks E and E… … FIG. 182. have been set with the wrist plates central, release the wrist plates androll the eccentrics around the shaft to test them and the reach rods, andsee that they are of the right length to make the wrist plate travel equallyeach side of the center line. Then place the crank on center and…
Steam-engines
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