Slowly it would be levered up, and packings or wedges of wood or stone inserted.
When reassembling the inlet and exhaust manifolds it is well to use only perfect packings or gaskets and to avoid the use of those that seem to have hardened up or flattened out too much in service.
Woven wire and asbestos packings impregnated with rubber, red lead, graphite and other filling materials were more satisfactory than the soft sheet asbestos, but were prone to burn out if the water supply became low.
Copper-asbestos packings form an effective seal against leakage of water and a positive retention means for keeping the explosion pressure in the cylinder.
In the early days it was difficult to procure gaskets or packings that would be both gas and water tight.
Unless the trunnion packings be well compressed, they will be likely to leak air, and it is, therefore, necessary to pay particular attention to this condition.
The result is bad cross-girder or other connections; or, in the case of bearers running over the tops of main girders, a necessity for special packings to bring all fair (Fig.
This later adjustment having in due course been effected, it is then necessary to measure for packings to fill the spaces remaining between the old cross-girders and the new centre girder.
If the cut is unavoidably too large, packings of tin strip must be forced in with the rail on the outside.
When fitting a gauge, put packings between the bushes and the glass-holders, substitute a piece of metal rod for the glass tube, and pack the rod tightly.
The coil and guides must be adjusted so that the plunger does not touch the coil anywhere during a stroke, packings being placed, if necessary, under coil or guides.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "packings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
