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(erielack) Re: Erielack Digest V2 #560

Dave,
There was nothing wrong with your question!
Mike






>Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1999 19:12:39 -0400
>From: Dave Rutan <"dlr_@_sparta.csnet.net">
>Subject: Re: (erielack) steam engine anatomy
>
>Sir,
>
>I _do_ go to the library, probably more than most from my generation,
>but I didn't think it worthy of a flame, (albeit a small one,) for
>asking a question of people more knowledgeable than myself on a given
>subject during the holiday season when perhaps I wouldn't have the time
>to take away from my family.  
>
>Next time I'll wait till after I've had the opportunity to search
>through that old-fangled card catalog and _then_ perhaps it will be OK
>for me to post a question to the list.
>
>Sorry for lack of EL content.
>
>Dave Rutan
>- ----------
>bob gillis wrote:
>> 
>> Dave Rutan wrote:
>> >
>> > Listers,
>> >
>> > Any ideas on where I can find out about steam engine anatomy?  I'm tired
>> > of reading about Baker valve gears when I've no clue where it's even
>> > located.
>> >
>> 
>> Sorry but what is wrong with the youger generation. Don't you young
>> people know of libraries?  Dave, go to the Sussex County Library or the
>> Highlands Cooperative Library Catalog ( from my bad memory but I think
>> similar to Morris)and get some books on locomotives.
>> 
>> The Baker valve gear is mounted in the same place as a Walcherts or
>> Southern or Joy or several other types of steam admission valves, just
>> behind the cylinders and the crossheads.  Stephenson valve gear is
>> generally mounted inside the frames as it uses two eccentrics.
>> 
>> bob gillis
>
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