Cylinder, Guide, and Crosshead Repair Work, ICS # 2502, Edition 1, by G.V. Williamson, published International Correspondence Schools, Scranton, Pennsylvania, 1929. Reproduced by Nation Builder Books, Mebane, NC, 2010, 5½ x 8½ photocopied booklet, 62 pages.  

Please note this is a new photoduplicated reproduction, not an original.  

When a steam engine cylinder is being bored, how will a spot that does not clean up be indicated? What does the term lining up the guides refer to? How can the error be corrected if the port spacing of the steam-chest bushing do not check? In the alligator type of crosshead, how is the bottom guide lined up? Why must the top guide be lined up first, with the Laird type of crosshead? How are Dunbar piston rings properly applied? What is the best method of locating cracks in piston rods, crossheads, and other components? Why must the piston rod have a taper fit in the piston and crosshead?  

If you can answer all these questions, maybe you don’t need this book. But if you’re of the growing number of live steam enthusiasts looking for information to help you design and build an engine, then you will love this book. And be sure to look for our two dozen other reproduced books from this ICS series on steam railroading as taught and practiced in the 1930s and 1940s.  

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