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  1. SteamTec

    Valve gear remote troubleshooting

    How it started: After a period of calculating valve gears in MS Excel, many years ago I did some successful quick troubleshooting for a small 600 mm gauge steam loco's valve gear that was performing very poorly. We measured the piston and valve positions in 4 steps, I drew an Excel diagram...



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