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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0smMBVb-Fs "Quartering Fixture", YouTube] | * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0smMBVb-Fs "Quartering Fixture", YouTube] | ||
* [http://www.google.bj/patents/US1387533 "Device for quartering driving-wheels of locomotives", US Patent 1,387,533] | * [http://www.google.bj/patents/US1387533 "Device for quartering driving-wheels of locomotives", US Patent 1,387,533] | ||
* [[Locomotive Building]] | |||
Revision as of 14:00, 10 October 2014
Quartering is the setting of the wheels of a two or four cylinder locomotive to ensure that the crankpins on one side are at 90° to those on the other, in order to ensure self-starting.
Boring Crankpin Holes in the Quartering Machine. From "Locomotive Building"