Category: Engineering & Technology
A boiler should be kept clean, outside and inside. Outside for your own credit, and inside for the credit of the manufacturers. A dirty boiler requires hard firing, takes lots of fuel, and is unsatisfactory in every way.
Before taking up the handling of a Traction Engine, we want to tell you of a number of things you are likely to do which you ought not to do.
3. Chapter 3Any young engineer who will make use of what he has read will never get his engine into much trouble. Manufacturers of farm engines to-day make a specialty of this class of good...
2. Chapter 2Some engineers call a steam gauge a "clock." I suppose they do this because they think it tells them when it is time to throw in coal, and when it is time to quit, and when it i...
1. Chapter 1A boiler should be kept clean, outside and inside. Outside for your own credit, and inside for the credit of the manufacturers. A dirty boiler requires hard firing, takes lots o...
7. Chapter 7A Traction Engine on the Road . . . . . 111 Sand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Friction Clutch . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 Something About Sight-Feed Lubricators 132 Two...
6. Chapter 65. Chapter 5