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Locomotive Valve Setting by Frank Williams
First published in 1939, reprinted in 1994. This is a handy reference to users
of steam engines and modellers alike. Builders of live steam models will find this
book especially useful.
It covers:
- requirement of valve gear
- valve setting
- Walschaert valve gears
- direct & indirect motion
- order of valve setting operation
- dead centres
- port marks
- correcting lap-and lead movements
- setting eccentric crank
- stops on reverse-lever quadrant
- valve-motion
- pre-admission
- lead
- port opening
- cut-off
- release
- adjusting reach rod for expansion of boiler
- Baker valve gear
- Stephenson valve gear
- errors in valve gears
- and more.
Code No. 005850, ISBN 1857610776, $17.00
This item is listed under the following subjects:
Railway
Steam
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