Re: Frame rod failure
Posted by: Ben in Maine (IP Logged)
Date: April 03, 2004 05:41PM
<HTML>Lets see if I can get the words in the right places,,,1,,//Long cutoff will use more steam[water] but will have a lower chest pressure,,,2,,// Short cutoff will use less steam , by virtue of expansion,,but will have a higher chest pressure for the same work,,,3,,// The manual advises long cutoff to reduce the chest pressure to save the valves,,,in climbing hills [there is another reason also],,,4,,//Some old timers spoke of just putting a wedge behind the pedal,,,for cutoff,,,,there would be some thrashing,,,Ideas on this,,,was it a real story???? 5,,// If one needed to limit chest pressure,,the simple way I think would be to put a safty valve in the pipe to the engine,,,It will speak to ya when you over pressure the engine,,! ! ! [Put the oil pipe on engine side of the T ,,,] 6,,// Again I stress the engine has compression in short cutoff,,,,and a slug of water in cutoff will not be nice,,,boiler too full on start up is one way,, dont forget the ex pipe is on top , so on start up you need enough steam through the engine to blow out the water,,,Seems like I forgot somethi'n,,,,oh well post this before it eats it,,,,,AGAIN,,,,,Grrrr !!! Hope this helps,,,,Cheers Ben ppp///sss ON HILLS In short cutoff,,at nearly stall,,,,if it stalls,,,,{wow] an the engine rolls back just a bit ,,,IT WILL pull the eccentric straps back into the direction the engine is going,,,,BACKWARDS,,,wowww so now you are going open throttle down hill backwards,,,,I knew I had foorgot somethin,,,,Cheers Ben,,,,GO SLOWLY<<<KEEP UP PRESSURE ,,,KEEP UP PRESSURE ,,,</HTML>