Diseases of the air brake system; their causes, symptoms and cure . Plate 1(5 A,. Plate 16 B. (6:) Diseases of the Air Brake System. 65 LEAKAGE IN CONDLXTORS VALVES. Conductors valves sometimes get to leakng becauseof dirt lodging in them. Sometimes (and always withthe new style) they do not close after liaving been opened,and although the blow from such a one be heavy it maybe hard to find, because the location of the valve in thecloset renders it rather inaccessible. Stoppage, i. e. Obstruction. Now we come to the consideration of the second partunder this head—stoppage. By this we refer to
Diseases of the air brake system; their causes, symptoms and cure . Plate 1(5 A,. Plate 16 B. (6:) Diseases of the Air Brake System. 65 LEAKAGE IN CONDLXTORS VALVES. Conductors valves sometimes get to leakng becauseof dirt lodging in them. Sometimes (and always withthe new style) they do not close after liaving been opened,and although the blow from such a one be heavy it maybe hard to find, because the location of the valve in thecloset renders it rather inaccessible. Stoppage, i. e. Obstruction. Now we come to the consideration of the second partunder this head—stoppage. By this we refer to anyobstruction which interferes with the passage of airthrough the pipe. This difficult}- is always manifested bya refusal of the brakes to set or release proper!}- lack of acertain point in the train, while all those forward of thatpoint operate satisfactorily. Sometimes the stoppage isof such a nature as to allow the air to pass freely throughthe pipe in one direction but not in the other, the obstruc-tion closing the pipe just like a valve. It will be ver}- readih- seen t
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