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The answer iirc is ‘yes’. The Advanced Steam Traction Trust looked at this as part of the design study for Clan Hengist, prompted by the uneven cylinder wear experienced on DoG where the inside cylinder had significant less wear than the outside...
Where would be without the legendary clanks of the WD's up the Calder Valley hauling "coil" to our poor Lancastrians to feed their steam mill engines... magical.
Interesting but... I'm not being trying to be "clever" btw, but what about all the distortions under running conditions...there are surely multiple forces at play in different axise. As any FEA been done on this ,?
