Essential
Steam Power Library
Steam Engines -
Principles and Practice
Now that you've digested the seven book correspondence course series and are an expert in the basics of steam engines, it's time to move onto the intermediate material. And this is a gem. I've seen countless steam power books over the decades, and this is still one of my favorites.
If
you were to run into a rusted old steam engine in an abandoned factory somewhere,
this is the book you would want to have if you were to bring the engine back
to life. It doesn't have everything. No book does. But this is a handbook
of incredible breadth and depth that you would want.
You
get over 500 pages of nitty-gritty how-to on steam power machinery, from setting
Corliss valves and lubrication systems to rebabbitting bearings and replacing
rings. Almost every page has a drawing to help the powerhouse mechanic learn
in a hurry the details he must know.
You get details on the Thompson indicator and Willis 
planimeter,
the Reynolds trip gear for the Corliss engine, a gravity trip for the Hamilton
Corliss, the automatic bypass valve for an Ames uniflow engine, the general
arrangement of the No. 7 open Tolle governor, three waves of governing with
a shaft governor and slide valve, the Fleming-Harrisburg centrally balanced
centrifugal inertia governor, the jacketed steam-engine cylinder on a Rice
and Sargent Corliss engine, the cylinder of a Chuse uniflow engine, and so
much more.
You get engine management how-to such as peening rings to make them fit snug against the cylinder wall, grinding down a cast-iron packing ring on emery cloth, dismantling a quartered main bearing, peening freshly re-babbitted bearings, lining up an engine without removing parts, and lots more.
Check out the illustrations and table of contents. This is a scarce1922 gem of a book that no steam engine mechanic should be without. There is a later 1939 edition, but since steam was on the way out by then, I think this is better: a fantastic book documenting stationary steam at its peak.
A superb book. I've thought about bringing it back for a long time. The time is now. There a better steam books, but they're quite specialized and usually filled with engineering math. This has something for almost any engine nut. That includes you, so get one! 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 hardcover 513 pages
No. 23756 ... $34.95
Special Introductory Price
Orders must be in our hands no later than January
15, 2009.
No.
23756 ... $29.95
Function and Principle of the Steam Engine * Steam-Engine Mechanisms and Nomenclature * Steam-Engine Indicators and Indicator Practice * Slide Valves and Their Setting * Corliss And Poppet Valves and Their Setting * Fly-ball Steam-Engine Governors * Principles and Adjustment * Shaft Steam-Engine Governors * Principles and Adjustment * Compound and Multi-Expansion Engines * Condensing and Non-Condensing Operation * Steam-Engine Efficiencies and How To Increase Them * Steam Engines of Modern Types * Steam-Engine Testing * Reciprocating-Engine Management * Operation and Repair * Use of Superheated Steam In Engines * Selecting an Engine * Steam-Engine Lubrication * Solutions to Problems
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