Excerpt from A Few Useful Shop Hints on Locomotive Valve Setting A real hunky bunch of practical shop stunts for a shop man, put up BY a shop man, raised among shop men on the erecting shop pits. Be a valve setter as well as a sledge hammer artist on frames, cylinders, etc. You don't have to be a designer to understand these kinks. Take what you want and forget the technicalities you don't need on the shop end of the game. Certain unnecessary dope which Often occurs in shop treatise is cut out from this little shot at a - boomer's shop dream. The author realizes what a green hand on the pits is up against in order to gain a living, let alone a thorough knowledge of the game ready for a show down. This book is the first of a series in the endeavour to show how to crack many of the apparently hard nuts met with during the erection Of a locomotive, from the preparation Of the pit for main frames, to the finished engine ready for de livery to the round house, including trial trip. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.