Cyclopedia of locomotive engineering, with examination questions and answers; a practical manual on the construction care and management of modern locomotives . great that it requires oil of a high flashingpoint to withstand it. On a warm summers day the airin a pump working against a ninety-pound pressure inthe main reservoir is about 550 degrees, and on a coldwinters day, when the thermometer is thirty degreesbelow freezing, the pump generates a heat of 300degrees against a ninety-pound main-reservoir if you run your pump faster than sixty or seventyfull strokes a minute, or hav
Cyclopedia of locomotive engineering, with examination questions and answers; a practical manual on the construction care and management of modern locomotives . great that it requires oil of a high flashingpoint to withstand it. On a warm summers day the airin a pump working against a ninety-pound pressure inthe main reservoir is about 550 degrees, and on a coldwinters day, when the thermometer is thirty degreesbelow freezing, the pump generates a heat of 300degrees against a ninety-pound main-reservoir if you run your pump faster than sixty or seventyfull strokes a minute, or have leaky packing rings orleaky discharge valves, the heat is raised considerablyhigher. The air valves in the 9^-inch pump operate thesame as in the 8-inch. But the lift of the air valves inthe 9^-inch pump are all the same, whereas they differin the 8-inch pump, as previously explained. The Pump Governor. When an engine is equippedwith a brake valve on which there is a feed valveattachment, the pump governor controls the main-reservoir pressure. 526 LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING But when the D-8 brake valve is used, the governorcontrols the train-pipe CTo Main SeterroirConnection 26 onEngineers BrakeValve. ^
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