. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . eunions and one tee in the pipe connectionbetween the triple valve and driver brakecylinders were found. Mr. Miller, superintendent of motivepower of the Michigan Central road, in aspeech before the Air-Brake Mens con-vention, got off the following witticism:A locomotive has two habits consideredbad in a man. It smokes and drinks. withdraw displacing screw until end isIhish with bottom of leather packing,place extractor in position as shown insketch, and draw up firmly the nuts onlong bolts. Now with a s
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . eunions and one tee in the pipe connectionbetween the triple valve and driver brakecylinders were found. Mr. Miller, superintendent of motivepower of the Michigan Central road, in aspeech before the Air-Brake Mens con-vention, got off the following witticism:A locomotive has two habits consideredbad in a man. It smokes and drinks. withdraw displacing screw until end isIhish with bottom of leather packing,place extractor in position as shown insketch, and draw up firmly the nuts onlong bolts. Now with a steel bar about 3feet long run in displacing screw, whichwill compress the white lead and createan enormous pressure (about per square inch, allowing 40 percent, for friction) in cylinder, which actson the four in piston or ram and forcesthe piston rod from cross-head, which isdone without putting injurious stresseson the cross-head. As will be seen, theside bolts go each side of the cross-head,and simply put a compressive strain on it,instead of a local strain at
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