Skinner Uniflow Steam Engine: Erecting + Maintenance Instructions-1940s- reprint

Description: Skinner “Universal Uniflow” Engines: Erecting and Maintenance Instructions, 500 to 1200 Horsepower “Universal Uniflow” Design, originally published by the Skinner Engine Co., Erie, Penn., Octiber 1940. Reproduced in 2009 by Nation Builder Books, Mebane, NC. 8½ x 11 softcover, 55 pages. Please note that this is a photoduplicated reproduction of the original. The accompanying images were scanned from a reprint, not the original. The Skinner Uniflow steam engine was the ultimate in steam valve construction and the most efficient steam engine ever designed and built. The final commercial evolution of the Uniflow engine came in the late 1930s and 1940s, with the development of the Compound Uniflow Marine Steam Engine, provided efficiencies approaching contemporary diesels. Many lake freighters and car ferrys on the Great Lakes, and towboats on the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers were equipped with Skinner engines, several of which are still operating. During World War II, the Casablanca class escort carriers -- designed from the keel up as escort carriers, and the largest series of aircraft carriers built -- used two 5-cylinder Skinner Uniflow engines. In the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the immortal special task force, Taffy 3, included five Casablanca class carriers. Le Grand Skinner founded the Skinner Engine Company in 1868., with the original manufacturing plant in Herkimer, New York. By 1873 the compnay had grown so large that it needed much more land to expand its manufacturing operations, which was found in the city of Erie, Pennsylvania. When Le Grand Skinner died in 1922, his son, Allen Skinner, assumed control of the company. Unlike the engineer his father had been, Allen Skinner was more of a marketer. Which was just as well, because Skinner engines were of such quality and superior economic advantage, that Allen Skinner was able to implement the unique sales approach of offering to sell a potential customer his engine requirement for only one dollar -- plus all of the savings that resulted from the installation of a Skinner engine. This ploy sold engines, and also made money. Lots of money. In 1949, control of the company passed to Allen Skinner’s son, named after the founder, Le Grand Skinner. Of course, this was the twilight of steam power, but Skinner engines were so well crafted and so efficient, that orders for Skinner steam engines continued to come in up until the late 1980s. Though Skinner had some success in other lines of work, particularly in manufacturing rubber mixing machines, and Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton pumps, the Skinner Engine Co. declared bankruptcy and was liquidated in March, 2003. These instructions will be of immense value not just to anyone restoring and operating a Skinner engine, but any large stationary engine, steam or gas, since there are some quite detailed suggestions for building the base. Table of Contents List of Illustrations Preface General Procedure Foundations Unloading Setting Up Bases Aligning Bases Grouting Setting Up Bed and Other Parts Placing the Cylinder Support Placing the Shaft, Setting the Generator Stator and Outboard Bearing on Direct Connected Center Crank Units Placing the Shaft, Setting the Generator Stator and Bearing on Direct Connected Side Crank Units Aligning Shaft on Belt and Coupling Drive Units Running a Line Through the Engine Placing Governor or Balance Wheels Final Check on Erection of Engine Piping Draining Traps and Separators Automatic Safety Stops Main Bearings Connecting Rods Crossheads and Guides The Floating Piston Adjustment and Maintenance of the Governor Starting Up Adjustment of Steam Valves Running Adjustment of Steam Valve Attaching and Adjusting Exhaust Cages and Gears Care of Steam Admission and Exhaust Valve Gears Eccentrics and Straps The Skinner System of Automatic Lubrication Cylinder Lubrication Piston Rod and Tail Rod Packing Bulkhead Packing Indicator Reducing Motion Suggestions and Precautions Suggestions for Ordering Repairs Part List Blank Note Sheets List of Illustrations Foundation Templates Center Crank Sub-Bases Side Crank Sub-Bases Aligning Center Crank Shafts Cylinder Support 24" Stroke and Smaller Cylinder Support 26" Stroke and Larger Handling Shaft with Rotor Aligning Generator Side Crank Outboard Bearing Method of Running a Line Through an Engine Small Piping Connections Main Bearings Connecting Rod Adjustments Longitudinal Section, Large Bored Guide Engines Shaft Governor Steam Valve Gear, Single Rocker Type Steam Valve Gear, Link Rod Type Steam Valve Gear, Layshaft Type Exhaust Valve Gear Automatic Oiling System Metallic Packing Bulkhead Packing Section Through Large Bored Guide Engines End View Large Bored Guide Engines Side Crank Section Through Flat Guide and Crosshead Steam Gear, Single Rocker Type Steam Gear, Link Rod Type Side Crank Governor Section Through Bored Guide Crank Disc Reducing Motion, Flat Guide Type Section Through Bored Guide Crosshead Section Through Crosshead Flat Guide Section Through Exhaust Gear Section Through Steam Gear, Valve in Cylinder Type

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