. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . mal pressure is no doubt the causeof explosions rather than a thin orweakened reservoir. The results of sometests made indicate this, and the writeris convinced that where the use of engineoil in the air chamber is prevalent, orwhere large quantities of an inferiorgrade of oil are poured into the air strainer, deposits of sediment in thereservoirs and pipes make the explosiona possibility. All air brake men know what is liableto happen if engine oil is poured into thestrainer of an overheated
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . mal pressure is no doubt the causeof explosions rather than a thin orweakened reservoir. The results of sometests made indicate this, and the writeris convinced that where the use of engineoil in the air chamber is prevalent, orwhere large quantities of an inferiorgrade of oil are poured into the air strainer, deposits of sediment in thereservoirs and pipes make the explosiona possibility. All air brake men know what is liableto happen if engine oil is poured into thestrainer of an overheated air pump, andthe same kind of an explosion is liableto be started in the main reservoir andburst it. Having been employed by quite a num- these main reservoir explosions were ofcommon occurrence, and at times almostbecame an epidemic. At this same timeit was observed that it was a generalpractice to use engine oil in the air cylin-ders of air pumps. However, it was nota practice sanctioned by the motive-powerofficials. Granting the possibility of many thingsbeing coincident, it would nevertheless. <s -^ M
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