oil-lubricated

Updated: May 28, 2025

One difference is due to the sub-base which is used with the oil-lubricated step-bearings. This style of machine has the jacking ring spoken of, while others have neither sub-base nor jacking ring, and when necessary to take down the step a different arrangement is used.

Hubert E. (Hubert Edwin) Collins - Steam Turbines: A Book of Instruction for the Adjustment and Operation of: the Principal Types of this Class of Prime Movers