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MONDAY, JANUARY, 24, 921.

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"MLADINKY" PRIGRIS,

MERCURY MOTOR" OAR OFFICE

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BETELLITY

P. E. Torre

KINDER

59-81 Des Voeux Road Central HONGKONG.

MARINE ENGINE LUBRICATION.

generated, the old type of oil musi still be used, since the presence of water is necessary in order to keep down bearing temperarmies.

CORRESPONDENCE.

HONDKONG ROLL OF

HONOUR.

THE CHINA. MAIL.

TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.

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To the Editor of the China Ma."TIVE ROOMRD HOUSE, with

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NOTICE.

Sir-Might I once again ask your help in the matter of the list of Hong kong men who were killed in the War? Since writing to you last August a number of names have been received mil through the pablicity you gave the cotrer. The Bronze Tablet with these cames will have to be made in Eng- band but for the present they will be INTIMATION IS HEREBY GIVEN placed on a temporary tablet.. The that no DIVIDENDS will be paid, names will be read out at the unveil on SHARES left standing in the same ing of the War Memorial on Sunday of the undersigned after Sist March, week. If any of your readers know 1921. of any other name that ought to be

Holders of such shares are accordingly included I shall be glad to receive it,quested to have same transferred also if any one can give the full names

forth with crank pins and main bearings a wide shall be grateful, I enclose the list. More general habrication of the of those where I have only initials

G. C. YOXON, field of experiments in stationary en- Thanking you for your kind help.-

co HOTON & TAILOR Reverting to the early examples of mineral oils of good body and high

gineering clearly indicated that pure Yours, truly the steam engine, Hero's engine viscosity are more desirable than the

H. COPLEY MOYLE. (about 150-200 B.C.) and Brand's highly compounded animal oils. Since

Hongkong Jammry 22. engine labout 1629 A.D.). it is re-the efficient number of revolutions per markable that history, in all that long minute for the screw is clearly de .space of time 1800 years) is barren¦ fined in marine practice, the revola- of any further reference to the steam tions of the shaft are quite definitely ergine, and not until near the end of "fixed and are usually limited to 70 or the seventeenth century do we find S0 per minute, excepting in the case reference to the piston engine, which of torpedo boats and smaller high- has been creied to a French engi- speed, craits. It is therefore desis- reer. Papin.

Lubrication has always been a factor to be considered wherever mechanical forces involving fictional resistance are employed.

Proving that corking' is rew; 1.200 viscosity at 70, since a highter able to use an oil of from 800 to unde: the sun," it is interesting to, oil is apt to be pressed out from be- consider that while the introduction, tween the surfaces.

of the steam rubine is to-day still. The small altaries about the locked upon by many as something ship, such as dynamo engine, blow- cw." requiring special and carefulgers, refrigerator machinery, etc., may consideration before adoption, yet the be considered from the point of earliest examples of the steam engine stationary practice and ktown. Hero's engine (150-200 B.C.) need not be mentioned in this article. therefore and Brand's engine (1629 A.D., were The steam cylinder fabricant, how- straight rebine types.

ever, is of grave importance. since! La Hero's engine, the emission of any animal matter would rapidly clog | the steam from the nozzles against! up the condensing apparatus and rad the atmosphere caused the engine to its way through the hot well to the revolve, and thereby establish the boilers, thus reducing the efficiency principle of the reaction nabire.... of the entire plant. For this reason, In the case of the Brane engine, only straight mizerat cylinder stocks its power was developed by the steam are used on shipboard. impinging on the small vanes, as in a single bucket wheel of an impulse turbine.

While the cases cited were the gem, or only the crude elements, nevertheless they embodied the prin-; ciples. These principles cannot be changed, but have been developed and made useful by our greater. Know- Jedge of the properties of materials and of the power and expansion of

gests.

steam used in past years in triple and With the increasing temperatures of

bie was experienced in fabricating quadruple engines, considerable trou the cylinders and valves and also in dealing with the oil carried into the steam chambers on the piston and valverods. This was aggravated to ari, acute degres when superheat was used, resuking in valves, cylinders and rods, being badly cut and wor The trouble became so serious for some time as, to threaten that even tually superhear in marine boilers would be done away with, notwith- standing har economy can be obtained from well- very substantial applied superheat.

This brings us down to our subject matter. We have abundant testimonyi of the uses of oils since the earliest gropings of man fa mechanical and other pursuits. •The o industry, frem crude and humble beginnings, has grown and developed, and pro duced for special reeds first animalį moved as splendid cylinder oils, are and vegetable oils, and later the

This diculty has now been re-

cow produced, and super heat is again

blended compond oils, when coming into faveur, being installed in

both government and merchant ships

petroleum olls were mixed with vege- table and other cils. This compound to considerable advantage in getting ing or mixing of oils produced, and a higher value out of the steam. still produces, great diversity of Similar conditions in the Diesel "opirita among engineers as to the and other internal combustion engines respective mixtures and values for, have been splendidly met in furnish- their several uses.

ing oils to suit the very abnormal tera-1 engine, whose development looms so peatures produced in this type of large in the future.

"Before" discussing the methods of lubricaties now in use, various and the high duty demanded from the oil as a jobricating medium, it is well to consider for a moment oil from the purchasing or commercial point of

view

To some minds, oils are just oil; and if some oil can be prezured a fraction less, per gallon, tha: appeals to them, as, after all, it is just oil. In the same way to some minds all boal is just coal, if the price suits. whether the percentage of ash is 5 "per cent, or 50 per cent. In the case of inferior oil, such persons do not take into account the great increase in friction and all the losses it entails because of bot and damaged bearings, and in both cases the reduced steam ing capacity of machinery.

It should be written, and accepted as an axiom by every engineer (and

In

for land work are the old-fashioned The various systems of lubrication syphon, ring and chain oilers. largely used in the principal bearings. marine work the syphon system is while in, some of the high-speed auti liasies the splash system, as used in automobile engines, is found to work well.

In all tartine installations for both warships and merchant ships, forced lubrication is fitted.

In rurbine installations, where a very generous supply of high-grade, oil must be provided for, owing to the heat transmission from the steam through the rotor ends augmenting the care must be taken that suitable oils normal heat of the bearings. great are used, and also that any. slightl

in nothing else that he deals with steam or water leakage through the

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TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.

does it hold so true) that, only THE turbine dummies will not cause the REPULSE BAY HOTEL

BEST DILS ARE CHEAP. AND THE o 10 saponify and so become thick CHEAP OILS ARE NEVER THE BEST.

and unfit for service in

a. forced

Nowhere has the lubricating engi- lubrication system.

neer encountered greater opposition

Turbine rotor shaft bearings, which

RACE WEEK.

to changes and improvements than run at high temperatures, from 120 DINNER DANCES will be held mo

the following dates:-

in the engine room of the ocean-going deg. F. to 70 deg. Fin may WEDNESDAY, 23rd February, 1991. steamship.

cases at a high R.P.M., and

The bims of lubrication which were ed a grade of oil that, the high SATURDAY, 26th February, 1921. considered best by our forelders are temperatures and speeds, will still DERBY DAY.

sall ding to by present-day engi- maintain a suficiently high viscosity THUESDAY, 24th February, 1921. neers, regardless of changed condi- that will not "break." While the tions and, improved lubricants,

viscosity of the oil must be sufficient FANCY DRESS BALL AND SUPPER

(Fancy Dress optional)

For years it has been the Brm be for the work, yet if it is too high it lief of every engineer that an oil only produces internal friction in the Tickets 85.-per head including Supper saponified with water will give the body of the lubricant, raising the tem- best results on the thrust bearing of perature of the bearing, which in turn

and Refreshments

(In view of the fact that the sECOM-

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THE LIVERPOOL & Los & GLORE INSTRANCE CO., LTD.

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2nd January, 1921.

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The sign the World knows

The Vacuum Of Company's. Board

of Engineers, from years of study, have specified the correct grades of Gargoyle Marine Oils to meet the lubricating requirements of all types of Marine Engines.

VACUUM OIL COMPANY, HONGKONG.

Avoid overcrowding intending GRAND

A-GRAND MATINEE

a ship. Extensive experiments, how-reduces the viscosity of the oil until modation will be limited, and in order ever, have proven that although the a balance is reached; but this all re- to presence of water in emulsion, serves sults in loss of efficiency by increas patrons are advised to book early). to greatly reduce the temperature of ing friction. the thrust bearing by carrying of the hear more rapidly, it does not reduce viscosities of the various oils at While there is wide variation in the the amount of heat generated, which normal temperatures, the differences quickly disappear as the temperature

in turn is indicative of the friction.

It has been found that with an is raised; or, în other words, the

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GENERAL MEETING of OLD

ample number of thrust collars and heavy oils thin out as the heat of the A BOYS will be held at the School with sufficient cooling coils in the bearing increases. But this is wasted on TUESDAY, February 1, 1921. at bottom of the tank, or by the use of mechanical effort, and cannot fake 8.30 forced circulation over these bear-place when only high-class oils are

ings, lover frictional values are ob- Lused.

tained when a straight Hubricating oi

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small percentage of rape seed oil so

that in the event of shy water and

ing is why is it will be absorbed by

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