[Steam-engine] Wachs vertical Excentric oiling question

Richard Strobel Richard_Strobel7 at msn.com
Thu Jun 30 16:47:37 PDT 2005


Howdy again gang...real nice day here in the big sky.

  I've temporarily assembled the "D" valve operating mechanism and hung in 
on the engine hoist and put a pointer on the reservoir for the excentric and 
the pivot on the slide guide.

http://community.webshots.com/photo/188300547/383083778FmqXBE

  Here's a closeup of the small reservoir.

http://community.webshots.com/photo/383083578/383083578uEMmiI

  To my knowledge, there are no provisions for automatically filling this 
reservoir cup.  The upper bearing surface does show signs of being hot.

  This is a dry crankcase, and from the slide guide on down are hidden 
pretty good by the connecting rod and crosshead.

What would your suggestions be for maintaining lube in this so-called 
Reservoir??

TIA
RickinMt. 



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