Talk:Valve gear

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Pending tasks for Valve gear:

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  • Make the list of valve gears more complete
  • Nice to have an image of the Stephenson gear
  • Info about what gears are used on stationary steam engines, steam cars, etc.
  • Timeline of history
  • Review for organization
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[edit] Categories

I've put the various valve gears in their own category. Please add future pages (e.g. for Young etc.) in category:Locomotive valve gear and do not add them to category:Locomotive parts. Mangoe 03:35, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Improving valve gear articles

I could use a little help:

  1. I only know about American (and a smidgin of British) usage. Someone with continental/other knowledge needs to take a stab at expanding/filling in those.
  2. I also don't know much about the poppet systems. I've looked at Caprotti valve gear, and it could use some help. Someone especially needs to tackle Franklin because it is important to the PRR T1.
  3. I'm not sure I'm naming the parts correctly. I especially need someone who can name the parts of Baker valve gear.
  4. I know the idea behind Young valve gear but am not up to actually writing the article.
  5. Southern valve gear needs a history review.
  6. Surviving engines with some of the odder varieties would be nice. (I have examples for Baker and Southern.)
  7. Steam locomotive nomenclature doesn't show much of the valve gear. We may want to help this out more than I've attempted to do, but I'm not sure how.

Mangoe 03:20, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

I have added preserved examples with Allan, Joy and Bagnall-Price valve gears. 82.21.65.109 10:01, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sleeve Valves

Hi Mangoe Thanks for amending the bit I added about sleeve valves and the Leader. I knew it didn't read well when I wrote it.--7severn7 19:01, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bias towards railway locomotives

As so often with steam articles, the bias (of knowledge, not POV) is towards railway locomotives. It would be good if an editor with stationary and marine steam knowledge had a look in here.--John of Paris (talk) 12:42, 17 February 2008 (UTC)