. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . thepump has to be run at full speed to main-tain train-line pressure, the packing burnsout quickly. It is a very bad practice to allow oil tobe drawn in through the receiving valvesof an 8-inch pump, as it gums up yourpump, brake valve and governor, alsocausing your pump to run hot by stoppingup discharge pipe, and puts in a!r-valvecages. In piping engines on some roads, itlooks as if they try to use all the elbowsthey could find. I have counted as highas ten on one engine: that is, in trainpipe from the
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . thepump has to be run at full speed to main-tain train-line pressure, the packing burnsout quickly. It is a very bad practice to allow oil tobe drawn in through the receiving valvesof an 8-inch pump, as it gums up yourpump, brake valve and governor, alsocausing your pump to run hot by stoppingup discharge pipe, and puts in a!r-valvecages. In piping engines on some roads, itlooks as if they try to use all the elbowsthey could find. I have counted as highas ten on one engine: that is, in trainpipe from the front of the pilot to the 3/0 LOCO -M um E E ^■ GIN E E KIXG 1899. Tear of tender. The air must have a hardtime in finding its way out in double-head-ing. C. F. SUNDBERG. C, M. & St. p. Falls, S. D.[We are glad to get this communication groaned more than on those without theextra drain cock. On others the steampipe was carried down to a point muchlower than the pump connection, and thenbent upward to make the connection, sothat there would be a low point or de-. XEWLY r.\TEXTED HOSE COUrLIXG. just at this time. The little voices in93,012. which appears elsewhere in thisissue, tell the same story as our corre-spondent.—Ed.] Valuable Suggestions on Piping AirPumps. Editor: Almost every road that I have beenover, since starting on my travels, I findhas more or less difficulty in lubricatingthe 9K-inch pump satisfactorily, and Iam sometimes asked why it is that onepump of this class will run smoothly with-out groaning on a small quantity of valveoil fed regularly, while others groan al-most continually, although the supply ofoil allowed them is quite liberal. At first I attributed the trouble 10 theleakage of oil through the joints of thegovernor c6nnection where the nuts ofthe governor were not screwed up per-fectly tight, and to leakage through thedrain cocks whenever they were not agood fit, or through carelessness or forget-fulness they were not closed wh
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