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Curious about Antique Steam Operated Farm Tractors?
Here is a publication that shows you how to operate them!
Item Description
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Antique Farm Tractors
A simple practical handbook from the Steam Engine Era for experts as well as for amateurs, fully describing every part of an engine and boiler, giving full directions for the safe and economical management of both, also, several hundred questions and answers often given in examinations for an engineer's license of that era, and chapters on farm engine economy, with special attention to traction and gasoline farm engines, and a chapter on the science of successful threshing.
With numerous illustrations showing the different parts of a boiler and engine, and nearly every make of traction engine, with a brief description of the distinctive points in each make.
You can read the detailed content pages further down this page.
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Preface
This book makes no pretensions to originality. It has taken the best from every source. The auther believes the matter has been arranged in a more simple and effective manner, and that more information has been crowded into these pages than will be found within the pages of any similar book.
The professional engineer, in writing a book for young engineers, is likely to forget that the novice is unfamiliar with many terms which are like daily bread to him. The present writers have tried to avoid that pitfall, and to define each term as it naturally needs definition.
Moreover, ther description of parts and the definitions of terms have preceded an suggestions on operation, the authors believing that the young engineer should become thoroughly familiar with his engine and its manner of working, before he is told what is best to do and not to do.
If he is forced n too fast he is likely to get mixed. The test questions at the end of Chapter III. will show how perfectly the preceding pages have been mastered, and the student is not ready to go on till he can answer all these questions readily.
The system of questions and answers has its uses and its limitations. The authors have tried to use that system where it would do most good, and employ the straight narrative discussion method where questions could not help and would only interrupt the progress of thought.
Little technical matter has been introduced, and that only for practical purposes. The authors have had traction engines in mind for the most part, but the directions will apply equally well to any kind of steam engine.
contents:
Chapter I Buying an engine
Chapter II Boilers. Locomotive fire tube type of boiler, Return flue type of boiler, Upright or vertical type of boiler,
The attachments of a boiler, The steam gauge, Safety valve, Filling the boiler with water, The boiler pump, Blast and blow-off devices, Spark arrester.
Chapter III The simple engine, Valve gear, The reversing gear, Governers, Crank, shaft and journals, The fly-wheel, lubricators, differential gear, Friction Clutch,
the fusible plug, stuffing boxes, cylinder cocks, steam indicator, Questions.
Chapter IV. How to manage a traction engine boiler, Starting up a boiler, Water for the boiler, the pump, injectors,
The heater, economical firing, Firing with wood, firing with straw, the ash pit, starting a fire, smoke, spark, the fusible plug, leaky flues.
Chapter V. How to manage a traction engine, What causes an engine to knock, Lead, How to set a simple valve, How to set a valve on a double eccentric engine,
Slipping of the eccentric or valve, Use of the cylinder steam cocks, Lubrication, A hot box, The friction clutch, Miscellaneous suggestions.
Chapter VI. Handling a traction engine on the road, Getting into a hole, Bad bridges, Sand patches, Hills.
Chapter VII. Points for the young engineer. Questions and Answers.
Chapter VIII. Points for the young engineer continued, Questions and Answers.
Chapter VIIII. Points for the young engineer continued, Questions and Answers.
Chapter X. Economy in running a farm engine. How energy is lost, How heat is distributed, Properties of steam,
How to use the expansive power of steam, the compound engine, Friction.
Chapter XI. Economy in running a farm engine continued. Practical points, Boiler heating surface, Expansion and condensation,
Lead and clearance, The exhaust, Leaks.
Chapter XII. Different types of engines. Stationary, The corliss engine, The high speed engine, Condensing and non-condensing, compound and cross-compound.
Chapter XIII. Gas and Gasoline Engines, Comparison of steam and gas engines, Description of the gas or gasoline engine, Operation of gas and gasoline engines,
Starting a gasoline engine, What to do with a gasoline engine when it doesn't work, Questions and Answers.
Chapter XIV. How to run a threshing machine, The cylinder, The concaves, The beater and check board, Straw rack, The fan, Sieves, Conveyor extension, Tailings elevator,
Self-feeder, The wind stacker, Attachments, Belting, How to become a good feeder, waste, Balancing a cylinder, covering pulleys, care of a separator.
Chapter XV. Questions asked engineers when applying for a license.
Chapter XVI. Different makes of traction engines, J. I. Case Traction Engines, The Frick Co's Traction Engine, D. June & Co's Traction Engine, Nichols & Shepard Traction Engine, The Huber Traction Engine,
A. W. Stevens' Traction Engine, Aultman- Taylor Traction Engine, Avery Traction Engine, Buffalo Pitts Traction Engine, The Reeves Traction Engines, The Rumely Traction Engine, Port Huron Traction Engine,
Minneapolis Traction Engine.
Index
User friendly PDF file format, the CD is Microsoft Windows 95/98/2000/NT/ME/XP as well as MAC compatible.
In CD ROM format, you can easily enlarge the contents of the pages on your computer screen to see more details and with better clarity.
you can also print out select pages of text and pictures as needed for your particular project you are working on.
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