Valve
Setting
Back 1906 electric motors were not commonly used in industry just yet. That would come in just a few years. Instead, big stationary engines in the power house driving line shafts would provide tools throughout the factory with power.
The
guys too lazy to learn worked out in the factory doing the rotten work, while
the engine man, who often had to teach himself from a correspondence course,
or in this case, from educational articles published in Power magazine got
one of the best jobs: in the power house. And he was well paid because without
his skill, the whole factory would be shut down.
Here, you get the information that any expert engineer would have had to know in order to "tune-up" the stationary engine for maximum reliability and fuel economy. He would have referred to one of the chapters here for detailed step-by-step instructions on setting the valves. And you can, too.
This
is the information that separates the men from the boys, the grunts from the
foremen. You can be part of that, too.
Oh, I know. You don't have a stationary engine. But in understanding how the valves function, which is the single most important component on the engine, you get insight into the strengths and weaknesses of the various engines and from that you will understand more about stationary engines than the duds who "just wanna look at them pitchers..." You know the guy: he doesn't wanna know nuthin'. He just wants to watch that flywheel thing go round and that piston thing go in and out. Let him have fun. You and I will appreciate far more about those engines than he ever will because of basic knowledge he's too lazy to learn.
Got
an engine? Tune it! Gonna build one? Good. Tune-it. Trying to identify and
old engine from photographs? Maybe this can help. Consider it carefully. Inside
steam engine info of unusually high quality. Get one. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 softcover
96 pages
No. 23918 ... $9.95
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