The Engine Runner's Catechism: Telling How to Erect, Adjust, and Run the Principal Steam Engines in Use in the United States; Being a Sequel to the Author's Steam Engine Catechism (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from The Engine Runner's Catechism: Telling How to Erect, Adjust, and Run the Principal Steam Engines in Use in the United States; Being a Sequel to the Author's Steam Engine Catechism

A. The Armington dz Sims engine has overhung cylinder, governor of the same type as the Buckeye and Straight Line, a hollow double-ported piston valve, but tak ing steam at the middle and exhausting as the ends of the chest. One eccentric is set inside the other, and the governor causes their throws to coincide, producing maxi mum throw, or to separate, lessening the throw.

Q. What is the range of cut-off in the Armington GI Sims engine?

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