Online Catalogue last updated 17th of September 2023
Practical Hints, Tips and How-To from the 1902 Power Magazine.
This book is about the skill that went into getting engines running, keeping them that way, and transmitting the power throughtout the plant with overhead line shafts.
Learn how to assemble a steam engine with an 18 foot diameter flywheel with only ropes and pulleys. Also you will learn about the safe working of boilers, a method to calculate crank effort, erextion of high-speed centre-crank engines, practical hints on firing, oil grooves in journals, setting an eccentric, setting a slide valve, evolution of the shaft governor, practical how-to for maintaining over head line shafts and more.
You get several articles on boiler explosions, one boiler let go in Brooklyn in 1893, it was not until 1902 that the last piece weighing about a ton was found.
Code No. 015684, 96 pages, $19.00