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Linde EPC Service Manual Tool Spare Parts List LSG v.5.2.2 U0278 11.

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Linde EPC Service Manual Tool Spare Parts List LSG


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Linde Service Guide LSG v.5.2.2 Updated U0278
11.2023 English
Size: 34.5GB (Winrar files)
Type of program: Spare Parts Catalog, Parts Kits,
Tecnical Documnets, Service Information, Jobs &
times, Special Tools
Interface Languages: English (GB), Deutsch, Francais,
Italiano, Espanol, Svenska, Polski, Cestina
Database EPC Languages: English (GB,US), Deutsch,
Francais, Italiano, Espanol, Cestina, Dansk, Eesti,
Suomi, Magyar, Islenska, Lietuviu, Latviesu,
Nederlands, Norsk, Polski, Portuges, Romana,
Pyccknn, Slovencina, Slovenscina, Svenka, Turkce
Version: v.5.2.2 U0278_LSG_CORE_202311301602
OS: Window 7, Window 8, Window 10 32 & 64bit
(Tested on window 7 ultimate 64bit and window 10 pro
1607 64bit)
Data version: Updated 0278
(U0278_LSG_CORE_202311301602)
Year: 11.2023

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REFERENCE CONTENT
Linde A 005 00501 A13 A15 Spare Parts Catalog
Workshop Manual
Linde A 040 04001 A10 Spare Parts Catalog Workshop
Manual
Linde A 5222 522201 A Spare Parts Catalog Workshop
Manual
Linde A 5224 522401 A Serial Number 615224Y00001
Spare Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde C 313 313-01 C80/3 C80/4 C80/5 C80/6 Serial
Number 03/94 Serial Number 06/98 Spare Parts Catalog
Workshop Manual
Linde C 317 317-01 C80/3 C80/4 C80/5 C80/6 Serial
Number 06/98 Serial Number 12/07 Spare Parts Catalog
Workshop Manual
Linde C 318 318-01 C90 Serial Number 09/08 Spare
Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde C 356 35610 C400 Serial Number 03/06 N: 10/13
Spare Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde C 357 357-01 C4130 Serial Number 02/96 Serial
Number 04/00 Spare Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde C 357 357-02 C4026 C4030 C4230 C4234 C4531
C4535 Serial Number 04/00 Serial Number 04/04 Spare
Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde C 357 357-03 C4026 C4030 C4230 C4234 C4531
C4535 Serial Number 05/04 Spare Parts Catalog
Workshop Manual
Linde C 357 357-05 C4026 C4030 C4034 C4127 C4131
C4230 C4234 C4238 C4531 C4535 C4536 C4540 C4545
Serial Number 09/08 Spare Parts Catalog Workshop
Manual
Linde C 1468 1468-01 C4026CH – C4535CH C4230TL –
C4540TL Serial Number 09/11 Spare Parts Catalog
Workshop Manual
Linde D 133 133-01 D12 D12HP D14 Serial Number
03/07 Serial Number W4X133V02096 133-01 D12 D14
Serial Number W4X133V02097 Spare Parts Catalog
Workshop Manual
Linde D 1160 1160-01 D06 D08 Serial Number 09/13
Serial Number W41160V00449 1160-01 D06 D08 Serial
Number W41160V00450 Spare Parts Catalog Workshop
Manual
Linde D 1161 1161-01 D12AP HP D12SP D12SP HP
D14SP Production site: CTT Spare Parts Catalog
Workshop Manual
Linde D 1163 1163-01 D10 D10 AP D10 AP-B Serial
Number W41163V00059 1163-01 D10 D10 AP D10 AP-
B D10FP Serial Number W41163V00060 Spare Parts
Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde D 1164 1164-01 D12S D12SF Serial Number
W41164G00001 Serial Number W41164V00131 1164-01
D12R Serial Number W41164H00006 Serial Number
W41164V00125 1164-01 D12RW Serial Number
W41164J00017 Serial Number W41164V00113 1164-01
D12R D12RW D12S D12SF Serial Number
W41164V00132 Spare Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde D 1173 1173-01 D12 D12AP D14 D14AP Serial
Number W41173V04922 & P21173V00001 Spare Parts
Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde E 322 322-01 E16 E16P E16PZ Serial Number
03/87 Serial Number 08/92 322-02 E15 E16 E18 Serial
Number 09/92 Serial Number 06/97 Spare Parts Catalog
Workshop Manual
Linde E 323 323-01 E10 E12 E15 Spare Parts Catalog
Workshop Manual
Linde E 324 324-01 E12 E14 E15 E16 Serial Number
04/91 Serial Number 07/00 324-02 E12 E15 E16 Serial
Number 06/99 Serial Number 12/07 Spare Parts Catalog
Workshop Manual
Linde E 325 325-01 E20 E25 E30 Serial Number 07/75
Serial Number 04/81 Spare Parts Catalog Workshop
Manual
Linde E 334 334-01 E10 Serial Number 05/97 Serial
Number 01/18 Spare Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde E 335 335-01 E14 E16 E16C E18C E18P E20P
Serial Number 09/95 Serial Number 11/99 335-02 E14
E16 E16C E18C E18P E20P Serial Number 06/98 Serial
Number 01/12 335-03 E16C E16P E20P Serial Number
09/11 Production site: Xiamen Spare Parts Catalog
Workshop Manual
Linde E 336 336-01 E20 E25 E30 Serial Number 05/94
Serial Number 04/00 336-02 E20 E25 E30 Serial Number
07/99 Serial Number 09/11 336-03 E25S E30S Serial
Number 04/07 Spare Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde E 337 337-01 E35P E40P E48P 337-02 E35P E40P
E48P Serial Number 11/95 Serial Number 10/11 Spare
Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde E 346 346-01 E18 E20 E20P Serial Number 08/08
Spare Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde E 386 386-01 E12 E14 E15 E16 E18 E20 Serial
Number 03/06 Serial Number 03/14 386-01 E14 EX 3GD
E16 EX 3GD E18 EX 3GD E20 EX 3GD Serial Number
09/14 386-01 E14 EX E16 EX E18 EX E20 EX Serial
Number 03/15 386-01 E14 EX GSS E16 EX GSS E18 EX
GSS E20 EX GSS Serial Number 06/15 386-02 E12 E14
E15 E16 E18 E20 Serial Number 02/14 386-02 E14 EX
2G E16 EX 2G E18 EX 2G E20 EX 2G Serial Number
04/15 386-02 E14 EX 3GD E16 EX 3GD E18 EX 3GD
E20 EX 3GD Serial Number 10/14 386-02 E14 EX GSS
E16 EX GSS E18 EX GSS E20 EX GSS Serial Number
07/15 Spare Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde E 387 387-01 E20 E20R E25 E25R E30 E30R E35
E35R Serial Number 11/10 387-01 E25 EX E30 EX E35
EX Spare Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde E 388 388-01 E35 E40 E45 E50 Serial Number
07/11 388-01 E35 EX 3GD E40 EX 3GD E45 EX 3GD
E50 EX 3GD Serial Number H2X388G00674 Spare Parts
Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde E 1252 1252-01 E20 E20/600H E25 E25/600H
E25/600HL E25L E30 E30/600H E30/600HL E30L
E35HL E35L Production site: Aschaffenburg Spare Parts
Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde E 1254 1254-01 E25 E40 E45 E50 Production site:
Aschaffenburg Spare Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde E 1275 1275-01 E16C E16CH E16P E16PH
E20PH Production site: Xiamen Spare Parts Catalog
Workshop Manual
Linde E 1276 1276-01 E25 E25S E25SH E30S E30SH
E35SH Production site: Xiamen 1276-01 E25S-20 E30S-
20 E35SH-20 Serial Number C11276L70001 Production
site: Xiamen Spare Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde E 1279 1279-01 E60 E70 E80 Spare Parts Catalog
Workshop Manual
Linde E 1284 1284-01 E15B E18B E20B E25B Serial
Number B11284X00001 Production site: Xiamen 1284-
01 E30B Production site: Xiamen 1284-01 E35B
Production site: Xiamen Spare Parts Catalog Workshop
Manual
Linde E 1285 1285-01 E20SL E25SL Serial Number
C11285G00001 Production site: Xiamen Spare Parts
Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde E 1286 1286-01 E30SL E35SL Serial Number
C11286H00001 Production site: Xiamen Spare Parts
Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde E 1287 1287-01 E40 E40-20 E40B E45 E45-20
E45B E50 E50-20 E50B Serial Number C11287X00009
Production site: China / LX Spare Parts Catalog
Workshop Manual
Linde E 1293 1293-01 E20B-01 E20BHP-01 E25B-01
E25BHP-01 Serial Number C31293Y00001 Production
site: Jinan Spare Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde E 1294 1294-01 E30 E35 Production site: Jinan
Spare Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde E 1346 1346-01 E18S E20S Production site:
Summerville Spare Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde E 1347 1347-01 E25C E25CL E27C E27CL E30C
E30CL E32CL Production site: Summerville Spare Parts
Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde E 8917 8917-01 E10 Spare Parts Catalog Workshop
Manual
Linde EG 1275 1275-02 EG16 EG16H EG16P EG16PH
EG20PH Serial Number 11/22 Production site:
Kolbaskowo Spare Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde EG 1276 1276-02 EG25-02 EG25H-02 EG30-02
EG30H-02 EG35H-02 Production site: LMH Poland
Spare Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde Energy Energy FT 8960 8960-01 FT08 FT10 FT16
FT20 Spare Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde FT 8961 8961-01 FT08C FT10C FT16C FT20C
Spare Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde H 319 319-01 H100 H120 H136 H150 Serial
Number 05/92 Spare Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde H 320 320-01 H50 H60 H70 H80 Serial Number
01/87 Serial Number 03/96 Spare Parts Catalog Workshop
Manual
Linde H 330 330-01 H12D H12T H15D H15T Serial
Number 02/88 Serial Number 09/90 Spare Parts Catalog
Workshop Manual
Linde H 331 331-01 H20D H20T H25D H25T H30D
H30T Serial Number 05/80 Serial Number 12/86 Spare
Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde H 332 332-01 H35D H35T H40D H40T Serial
Number 01/82 Serial Number 12/89 Spare Parts Catalog
Workshop Manual
Linde H 350 350-01 H12D H12T H16D H16T H18D
H18T Serial Number 10/90 Serial Number 12/00 350-02
H12D H12T H16D H16T H18D H18T 350-03 H12D
H12T H16D H16T H18D H18T H20D H20T Serial
Number 12/00 350-03 H18D H18T H20D H20T Serial
Number C1X350A00001 Production site: Xiamen 350-04
H12D H12T H16D H16T H18D H18T H20D H20T Spare
Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde H 351 351-01 H20D H20T H25D H25T H30D
H30T Serial Number 10/85 Serial Number 07/97 351-02
H20D H20T H25D H25T H30D H30T Serial Number
06/94 Serial Number 11/99 351-02 H20D EX H25D EX
H30D EX 351-03 H20D H20T H25D H25T H30D H30T
H35D H35T Serial Number 05/97 Serial Number 08/03
351-03 H20D H20T H25D H25T H30D H30T H35D
H35T Production site: Xiamen 351-04 H25D H25T H30D
H30T Serial Number 04/07 Serial Number 01/11
Production site: Xiamen 351-05 H25D H25T H30D Serial
Number 07/08 Production site: Xiamen 351-05 H20D EX
H25D EX H30D EX Spare Parts Catalog Workshop
Manual
Linde H 352 352-01 H35D H35T H40D H40T H45D
H45T Serial Number 11/88 Serial Number 12/99 352-02
H35D H35T H40D H40T H45D H45T Serial Number
11/88 Serial Number 12/99 352-03 H35D H35T H40D
H40T H45D H45T Serial Number 03/98 Serial Number
05/01 352-04 H30G H30T/G H35D H35G H35T H35T/G
H40D H40T H45D H45T Serial Number 06/01 Serial
Number 07/04 352-05 H35D H40D H45D H50D Serial
Number 01/10 Serial Number 11/19 Production site:
Xiamen 352-06 H40D H45D H50D Serial Number
C1X352X50001 Production site: Xiamen Spare Parts
Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde H 353 H50D H50T H60D H60T H70D H70T
H80D H80T Serial Number 09/93 Serial Number 07/00
353-02 H50D H50T H60D H60T H70D H70T H80D
H80T Serial Number 06/99 Serial Number 12/03 353-03
H50D H50T H50V H60D H60T H60V H70D H70T
H70V H80D H80T Serial Number 01/04 Serial Number
12/08 353-03 H50D EX H60D EX H70D EX H80D EX
Spare Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde H 359 359-01 H100D H120D H140D H150D
H160D H180D Serial Number 11/07 Serial Number 02/11
Spare Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde H 391 391-01 H14D H14T H16CNG H16D H16T
H18CNG H18D H18T H20CNG H20D H20T Serial
Number 10/06 391-02 H14D-02 H14T-02 H16CNG-02
H16D-02 H16T-02 H18CNG-02 H18D-02 H18T-02
H20CNG-02 H20D-02 H20T-02 Serial Number 06/21
Production site: Poland H 393 393-01 H25D H25T H30D
H30T H35D H35T Serial Number 11/02 Serial Number
12/12 393-02 H25D H25T H30D H30T H35D H35T
Serial Number 01/13 Serial Number 07/20 Spare Parts
Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde H 392 392-01 H20D H20T H25D H25T Serial
Number 02/02 Serial Number 12/12 392-02 H20D H20T
H25D H25T Serial Number 01/13 Serial Number 07/20 H
394 394-01 H40D H40T H40V H45D H45T H45V H50D
H50T H50V Serial Number 11/03 Serial Number 12/12
394-02 H40D H40T H45D H45T H50D H50T Serial
Number 01/13 Spare Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde H 396 396-01 H50D H50T H60D H60T H70D
H70T H80D H80T Serial Number 04/08 Serial Number
02/14 396-01 H50D EX H60D EX 396-02 H50D H50T
H60D H60T H70D H70T H80D H80T Serial Number
07/12 Serial Number 03/16 396-03 H50D H50T H60D
H60T H70D H70T H80D H80T Serial Number 03/16
Production site: Aschaffenburg 396-03 H50D EX H60D
EX H70D EX 396-04 H50D H60D H70D H80D Serial
Number SOP 11/2024 Production site: Aschaffenburg
Spare Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde H 1202 1202-01 H20 H20/600D H20/600T
H25/600D H25/600T H25D H25T H30D H30T H35
H35D H35T Serial Number 01/20 Spare Parts Catalog
Workshop Manual
Linde H 1204 1204-01 H35D H35T H40D H40T H45T
H50D H50T Serial Number H21204L00001 Production
site: Aschaffenburg Spare Parts Catalog Workshop
Manual
Linde H 1220 1220-01 H25D H25T H30D H30T H35D
H35T Serial Number C11220G00001 Production site:
Xiamen Spare Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde H 1313 1313-01 H25CT H27CT H30CT H32CT
Serial Number 12/09 Spare Parts Catalog Workshop
Manual
Linde H 1401 1401-01 H100D H120D H140D H150D
H160D H180D Spare Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde H 1402 1402-01 H180 H200 H220 H250 H280
H300 H320 HT 22 022-01 HT180 HT200 HT220 HT236
HT250 Spare Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde HT 23 023-01 HT280 HT320 HT370 HT520 Spare
Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde HT 321 321-01 HT250 HT280 HT320 HT350
HT420 Serial Number 10/95 Spare Parts Catalog
Workshop Manual
Linde HT 354 354-01 HT100D HT120D HT140D
HT150D Spare Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde HT 356 356-01 HT360 HT400 356-01 HT420
HT460 Serial Number 07/01 Spare Parts Catalog
Workshop Manual
Linde HT 358 358-01 HT120D HT140D HT160D Serial
Number 04/98 Serial Number 10/07 358-01 HT120
HT150 HT160 HT180 Production site: Xiamen Spare
Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde HT 1216 1216-01 HT16Ds HT16Ts HT18Ds
HT18Ts HT20Ds HT20Ts Serial Number C11216F00001
Production site: Xiamen Spare Parts Catalog Workshop
Manual
Linde HT 1218 1218-01 HT25D HT30D Serial Number
04/13 Spare Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde HT 1219 1219-01 HT25Ds HT25T HT27T
HT30Ds HT30T HT32T HT35Ds HT35Ts Spare Parts
Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde HT 1233 1233-01 HT25D HT30D HT35D Serial
Number B11233X00001 Spare Parts Catalog Workshop
Manual
Linde HT 1283 1283-01 HT25D HT25Ts HT30D HT30Ts
Serial Number 07/11 Spare Parts Catalog Workshop
Manual
Linde HT 1319 1319-01 HT25CT HT27CT HT30CT
HT32CT Production site: Summerville Spare Parts
Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde HT 1320 1320-01 HT25T HT30T HT35T
Production site: Summerville Spare Parts Catalog
Workshop Manual
Linde HT 1408 1408-01 HT100D HT80D Spare Parts
Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde HT 1411 1411-01 HT100 HT120 HT140 HT150
HT160 1411-02 HT100 HT120 HT140 HT150 HT160
Production site: Xiamen Spare Parts Catalog Workshop
Manual
Linde K 7 007-01 K10 Spare Parts Catalog Workshop
Manual
Linde K 8 008-01 K13 Spare Parts Catalog Workshop
Manual
Linde K 9 009-01 K15-4 Spare Parts Catalog Workshop
Manual
Linde K 10 010-01 K15-3 Spare Parts Catalog Workshop
Manual
Linde K 11 011-01 K Generation 1 + 2 K Generation 3 K
Generation 4 Spare Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde K 13 013-01 K13-3 Spare Parts Catalog Workshop
Manual
Linde K 5231 5231-01 K K-matic 5231-02 K(48V)-02
K(80V)-02 Serial Number C15231L00001 Production
site: Xiamen Spare Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde L 035 035-01 L10AC L12AC L16AC Spare Parts
Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde L 131 131-01 L14AS L14ASAP L14ASSP L16AS
L16ASAP L16ASSP Serial Number W4X131V05113
Spare Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde L 133 133-01 L-matic HP L12AP L12L L12LAP
L12LHP L12LHPAP L12LHPSP L12LSP L12SP L14AP
L14L L14LAP L14LSP L14SP Serial Number 03/07
Serial Number W4X133V02096 133-01 L-matic HP
L12AP L12L L12LAP L12LHP L12LHPAP L12LHPSP
L12LSP L12SP L14AP L14L L14LAP L14LSP L14SP
Serial Number W4X133V02097 133-01 L14AS-L16AS
Serial Number W4X133V02097 133-01 L12 EX AP L12
EX L L12 EX L AP L12 EX L SP L12 EX SP L14 EX AP
L14 EX L L14 EX L AP L14 EX L SP L14 EX SP Spare
Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde L 139 139-01 L12R L16R L 144 144-01 L12LS
Spare Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde L 141 141-01 L12L L12LP L16AS L 365 365-01
L14 L14AP L16 L16AP Serial Number 11/93 365-01 L14
EX L16 EX Spare Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde L 372 372-00 L14 L16 Serial Number 10/98 372-
01 L14 L14AP L16 L16AP Serial Number
W4X372M03000 372-02 L14 L14AP L16 L16AP Serial
Number W4X372U02718 Serial Number
W4X372Z02948 372-03 L14 L14AP L16 L16AP L28AP
Serial Number W4X372A00001 372-03 L14 EX GSS
L16 EX GSS Spare Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde L 379 379-01 L10 L12 Serial Number 10/95 Serial
Number 05/09 Spare Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde L 1168 1168-01 L14 L14AP L16 L16AP Spare
Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde L 1169 1169-01 L10 L12 L14AP L14C Serial
Number 02/10 1169-02 L10P-02 L10PAS-02 L12P-02
L12PAS-02 L14P-02 L14PAS-02 Serial Number
C21169Y50006 Production site: XM2 Spare Parts
Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde L 1170 1170-01 L-matic AC L06AC L10AC
L12AC L16AC Serial Number 09/10 Serial Number
W41170V00273 1170-01 L10 EX Ac L12 EX Ac L16 EX
Ac Spare Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde L 1171 1171-01 L06AC L10AC L12AC L16AC
Serial Number W41171V00001 1171-01 L06AC Ex3G
L10AC Ex3G L12AC Ex3G L16AC Ex3G Spare Parts
Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde L 1172 1172-01 BW22 L10 L10AS L10B L12
L12AS L12I Serial Number 11/08 Production site: CTT
1172-01 BW22 L10 L10AS L10B L12 L12AS L12I
Serial Number F21172F03527 Production site: LUZ
1172-01 L12 EX L12 i EX 1172-01 L12 EX E2 L12 EX i
E2 1172-01 L03 EX Spare Parts Catalog Workshop
Manual
Linde L 1173 1173-01 L-matic HD L14 L14AP L16
L16AP L20 L20AP Serial Number W41173V04921 1173-
01 L-matic HD L14 L14AP L14AS L14ASAP L16
L16AP L16AS L16ASAP L20 L20AP Serial Number
W41173V04922 & P21173V00001 1173-01 L12 EX 3G
L14 AP EX L14 EX L14 EX 3G L14i EX 3G L16 AP EX
L16 EX L16 EX 3G L16i EX 3G L20 AP EX L20 EX
L20 EX 3G L20i EX 3G Spare Parts Catalog Workshop
Manual
Linde L 1174 1174-01 L14R L16R Serial Number
W41174H00001 Serial Number W41174V00082 1174-01
L14RW L16RW Serial Number W41174J00009 Serial
Number W41174V00081 1174-01 L14R L14RW L16R
L16RW Serial Number W41174V00083 Spare Parts
Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde L 1177 1177-01 L14SP L16SP L20SP Production
site: CTT Spare Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde L 1183 1183-01 L14-01 L14AP-01 L16-01 L16AP-
01 L20-01 L20AP-01 Production site: Xiamen Spare
Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde L 1195 1195-01 L12 MATIC Production site:
Xiamen Spare Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde L 4523 4523-01 L20AP Spare Parts Catalog
Workshop Manual
Linde L 4525 4525-01 L20 L20 EX Spare Parts Catalog
Workshop Manual
Linde L 4527 4527-01 L20AS Spare Parts Catalog
Workshop Manual
Linde L 4528 4528-01 L20I Spare Parts Catalog
Workshop Manual
Linde L 4535 4535-01 L20API Spare Parts Catalog
Workshop Manual
Linde LT 1196 1196-01 LT06 LT08 LT10 LT12 LT16
LT20 Serial Number H21196F00001 Production site:
Aschaffenburg Spare Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde LT 8950 8950-01 LT06 LT08 LT10 LT12 LT14
LT20 Spare Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde LT 8951 8951-01 LT06 LT12 LT14 LT16 LT20
Spare Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde LT 8952 8952-01 LT08 LT12 LT16 Spare Parts
Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde LT 8953 8953-01 LT06 LT16 LT26 Spare Parts
Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde LT 8970 8970-01 LTC08 8970-01 LT10-B LT10-
BM LT10-C LT16-BM LT20-C Serial Number
558970L00001 Spare Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde LT 8971 8971-01 LT-M LT-W Spare Parts Catalog
Workshop Manual
Linde LT 8972 8972-01 LT-CH Spare Parts Catalog
Workshop Manual
Linde M 032 032-01 M15 M25 032-01 M20 EX M25 EX
Spare Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde M 033 033-01 M10X M25 033-01 M25 EX
Production site: Proplan Spare Parts Catalog Workshop
Manual
Linde M 1166 1166-01 MR12AP MR15AP Serial
Number CT1166J00001 Production site: Xiamen 1166-02
MR12AP MR15AP Production site: Xiamen Spare Parts
Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde M 8904 8904-01 MP13 Serial Number
CT8904J00001 Spare Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde M 8905 8905-01 MV01 Serial Number
CT8905V00001 Spare Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde M 8906 8906-01 MV05 Serial Number
AT8906V00001 Spare Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde M 8907 8907-01 ML14ASX Serial Number
AT8907V00001 Spare Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde M 8908 8908-01 ML20AS Serial Number
AT8908V00001 Spare Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde ML 1165 1165-01 ML16P Serial Number
CT1165J00001 Production site: Xiamen Spare Parts
Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde ML 1167 1167-01 ML10 Serial Number
CT1167H00001 Serial Number 05/18 Production site:
Xiamen Ningbo China 1167-02 ML10 ML12 MM10
MM12 MM12i Serial Number CT1167H20001
Production site: Xiamen 1167-03 ML10 ML12 MM10
MM10i MM12 Serial Number CT1167V50001
Production site: Xiamen 1167-04 ML15 Serial Number
CT1167X60001 Production site: Xiamen Spare Parts
Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde MT 1131 1131-01 MT12 Serial Number
CT1131H00001 Production site: Xiamen 1131-02 MT15C
Serial Number CT1131V20001 Production site: Xiamen
1131-03 MT15B Serial Number CT1131Y50001
Production site: Xiamen 1131-04 MT15C-04 Serial
Number CT1131M60001 Production site: Xiamen Spare
Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
Linde MT 1132 1132-01 MT15A MT15A Li MT15AD
MT15AD-01 MT15AEC MT20A MT20A Li MT20AD
MT20AD-01 MT20AEC Serial Number C21132Y00001
Production site: XM2 factory Spare Parts Catalog
Workshop Manual
Linde MT 1133 1133-01 MT15 Serial Number
CT1133H00001 Production site: Xiamen 1133-02 MT15
Serial Number CT1133H20001 Production site: Xiamen
1133-03 MT15 MT16 MT20 Serial Number 09/19 Spare
Parts Catalog Workshop Manual
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FROM PILLAR TO POST


"I shall have to borrow some of your manly courage to carry
me through."
FROM PILLAR TO POST
LEAVES FROM A LECTURER'S NOTE-BOOK

BY
JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
Author of "The House-Boat on the Styx," Etc.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
JNO. R. NEILL

NEW YORK
THE CENTURY CO.
1916

Copyright, 1916, by
The Century Co.

Copyright, 1915, by
Associated Sunday Magazines Incorporated

Published, March, 1916

TO
THAT WISE COUNSELLOR
AND STERLING FRIEND
J. HENRY HARPER
PREFATORY NOTE
I could not let these random notes of a delightful experience go
forth into the world without expressing in some way my deep
appreciation of the valued services rendered me in my ten years of
platform work by my friends of the Lyceum Bureaus. In office and in
the field they have labored strenuously, often affectionately, and
always loyally, on my behalf. But for their interest some of the most
cherished experiences of my life would have been beyond my reach.
If sometimes in their zeal to keep me busy they have booked me in
Winnipeg on Monday night, in New Orleans on Tuesday night, with
little side-trips to San Diego, California, and Presque Isle, Maine, on
Wednesday and Thursday, not to mention grand finales at Omaha
and Key West on Friday and Saturday, I view that sequence rather
as a tribute to my agility than as a matter to be unduly captious
about. It is a manifestation of a confidence in my powers to
overcome the limitations of time and space that I think upon with an
expanding head, if not with a swelling heart, and whether this
required annihilation of distance has been wholly agreeable or not it
has enabled me to see more of my own country than I otherwise
could have seen, and to that extent, I hope, has made a better
American of me.
Wherefore before beginning our ramble from Pillar to Post I record
here in testimony of my gratitude to them the names of Arthur C.
Coit, and Louis J. Alber, of the Coit Lyceum Bureau of Cleveland,
Ohio; of Frank A. Morgan, of the Mutual Lyceum Bureau, of Chicago;
of Kenneth M. White, of the White Entertainment Bureau of Boston;
of S. Russell Bridges, of the Alkahest Lyceum System of Atlanta,
Georgia; of J. B. Pond, Jr., and that tried friend both in the Lyceum
field and out of it, William C. Glass, of the J. B. Pond Lyceum Bureau
of New York.
Thanks are due to the publishers of Every Week for courtesies
extended, and finally I desire to inscribe a word of affectionate
esteem for my friends, J. Thomson Willing, and that inspiring
editorial guide and mentor, William A. Taylor, of the Associated
Sunday Magazines, under whose genial direction these papers were
first presented to the public.
John Kendrick Bangs.
CONTENTS
PAGE
I GETTING USED TO IT 3
II SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY 23
III GETTING THE LEVEL 40
IV THE GOOD SAMARITAN 61
V A VAGRANT POET 83
VI BACK-HANDED COMPLIMENTS 98
VII FRIENDS OF THE ROAD 116
VIII CHAIRMEN I HAVE MET 134
IX CHANCE ACQUAINTANCES 155
X HUMORS OF THE ROAD 175
XI MINE HOST 196
XII PERILS OF THE PLATFORM 220
XIII EMBARRASSING MOMENTS 243
XIV "SLINGS AND ARROWS" 266
XV EMERGENCIES 290
XVI A PIONEER MANAGER 318
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE
"I shall have to borrow some of your manly courage to
Frontispiece
carry me through"
"It was indeed a pretty sight to me!" 21
"Yes, and you are fifty years behind us in every other
28
respect!"
I knew that I had met a "Southern Gentleman" 31
"The consciously superior person cannot last long on
43
the lecture platform"
"If there's anything you want to know about Darwin's
60
Origin of Species, you ask me!"
"I cannot say that his first remark was wholly cordial" 70
"I'm an Ohio man, and I'll cash the check for you on
79
your looks"
In the last stages of poverty 85
"Suffering Centipedes!" he cried. "That man must have
93
been brought up on the bottle!"
"The lecturer must deliver the goods!" 100
"They may 'go to sleep in his face'" 103
"I have been after 'em, suh; but it ain't no use" 122
"These men on the engines are great characters" 130
"Pile it on so thick that the lecturer has to struggle hard
136
to make good"
"The last I saw of my kindly host" 145
"When he got through I could have qualified for a
162
college degree on the subject of straw hats"
"She ast me was you so very comical," said he 171
"If yo're dealin' in brains, hit ain't likely yo' got enough
185
to gib any away"
"A Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Locomotives
191
would have had them indicted then and there"
"If it were possible to sweep a room clean with a
199
welcoming wave of the hand—"
"Cannot sleep comfortably between the sheets of
202
William James's pragmatic philosophy, dry as they are"
"If he had shifted his chewing gum to the other side,
227
we should have plunged into the river"
"Laughter where tears would have been more
239
appropriate"
"I found the building wholly dark" 247
"But what was the point of this little joke last night? 264
"My grinning countenance stared back at me
276
unflinchingly"
"I was the sudden recipient of a blow on top of my
283
head"
"A craving to settle lingering doubts as to my right to
298
be there"

FROM PILLAR TO POST


I
GETTING USED TO IT

"I cannot imagine a more disagreeable way of qualifying for the


income tax," said one of America's most noted after-dinner speakers
to me when at a chance meeting he and I were discussing the joys
and woes of the lecture platform. I must admit that in a way I
sympathized with him; for I knew something of the sufferings
endured for days and nights prior to one's own public appearance as
an after-dinner or platform speaker.
There was a time many years ago, upon which I look back with
wonder that I ever came through it without nervous prostration,
when I suffered those selfsame mental agonies as the hour
approached for the fulfilment of one of those rash promises which
men fond of the sound of their own voices make months in advance
to those subtle flatterers who would lure them from the easy
solitudes of silence into the uneasy limelight of after-dinner oratory.
Not without reason has a certain wit, whose name is unfortunately
lost to fame, referred to the chairs behind the guest table on the
raised platform at revelries of this nature as "The Seats of the
Mighty and Miserable."
These sufferings involve a loss of appetite for days in advance of the
event; a complete derangement of the nervous system, with no
chance of recovery for at least ten days preceding the emergent
hour, since sleep either refuses to come to one's relief altogether, or
coming brings in its train a species of nerve-racking dream which
leaves the last estate of the weary slumberer worse than the first.
The complication is far more difficult to handle than that involved in
the maturity of a promissory note which one is unable to meet; for
there are conditions under which a tender-hearted creditor will
permit a renewal of the latter sort of obligation, and this thought
provides some sort of rift in the cloud of a debtor's despair.
But in the matter of public speaking there is no such comforting
possibility. Nothing short of inglorious flight, painful accident, or
serious illness, can save the signer of that promissory note for
twenty-five hundred personally conducted after-dinner words from
being called upon to pay in full the moment the note falls due. He
can't even plead to be permitted the payment of one paragraph on
account, and the balance in thirty days.
The contract can neither be evaded, postponed, nor sublet. It is then
or never with him, and while no great harm would come to the world
if ninety-nine and seven-eighths per cent. of the after-dinner
speeches of the ages had gone unspoken, no man of the right,
forward-looking, upstanding sort, whether his speeches be good,
bad, or, like the most of them, merely indifferent, may wilfully or
comfortably permit a promise of that nature to go to protest.
Yes, I sympathized with that excellent gentleman. I have known him
to take to his bed three days before the ordeal, tremblingly approach
the banquet board, rise to his feet, his nerves taut as a G string, his
knees quaking in the merciful seclusion of the regions under the
table, and then, with hardly a glimmering of consciousness of what
he was doing or saying, his whole being thrilled with terror, acquit
himself brilliantly, to return home at the conclusion of his trial
physically and nervously prostrated.

One of the happiest recollections of my platform work, nevertheless,


had to do with just such a shivering, quivering condition. It was
many years ago—back in the mid-'90's of the last century, that so-
called crazy end-of-the-century period, which inspired Max Nordau's
depressing treatise on Degeneracy, and yet now seems so gloriously
sane in contrast to what is going on in the world at the present time.
In some mysterious fashion I had succeeded in writing what the
literary world is pleased to term a "best seller," and was in
consequence enjoying a taste of that notoriety which inexperienced
youth so often confounds with immortality. One result was a
tolerably persistent demand that I exhibit myself at one of those
then popular functions known as Authors' Readings. This was a form
of entertainment almost as barbarically cruel as those ancient
ceremonies in which Christian martyrs were thrown into an arena to
demonstrate their powers in combatting irritated tigers, and such
other blood-thirsty beasts of the jungle as the ingenious fancy of the
management might suggest. It was, in a manner of speaking, a sort
of Literary Hagenbeck Show, whither the curious among the readers
of the day were lured in sweet Charity's name by the promise of a
personal performance by real literary lions, with an occasional wild
goose or two wearing temporarily the gorgeous plumage of the Birds
of Parnassus, thrown in to make the program longer.
Invited to take part in one of these affairs, and feeling that for
posterity's sake it was my duty to rivet my firm grasp upon Fame by
keeping such company as my remotest great-grandchild could wish
to have me known by, I carelessly accepted as if it were easy to
comply, and all in the day's work of a new sun dawning upon the
horizon of letters.
But when the fateful evening arrived a "change came o'er the spirit
of my dream." Two dread situations arose which bade fair to drive
me either into the nearest sanatorium, or to the obscurity of the
deepest available jungle. Had I yielded to my immediate impulse, I
should have flown as far afield as the Virginia negro who, upon
being advised to leave town lest he suffer certain extreme penalties
for his misdeeds, replied that he was "gwine, an' gwine so fur it'll
cost nine dollars to send a postal card back."
On one side of the curtain at the great metropolitan hall where the
Readings were to be held sat nearly three thousand hungry readers,
waiting to see six unhappy authors prove whether or no they could
read their own productions and survive; and on the other side of the
curtain were five real Immortals and my sorely agitated self. My
fellow sufferers that night were Dr. Silas Weir Mitchell, Dr. Henry Van
Dyke, William Dean Howells, the lamented Frank R. Stockton, and
the ever unforgettable Mrs. Julia Ward Howe.
It was rather godlike company for a mere mortal like myself, and as
I gazed upon them I realized, perhaps for the first time, the
magnificent distances that lie between Yonkers-on-Hudson and
Parnassus-by-Helicon. Frozen from heel to toe by the thought of
having to appear before so vast and critical an audience, the
complete refrigeration of my nervous system was accomplished by
the thought of even temporary association with those fixed stars in
the firmament of American Letters. Instead of a burning torch on the
heights of Olympus, I felt myself more of a possible cinder in the
public eye. One might be willing to appear before a Court of Literary
Justice in the company of any one of them, but to assume equality
with five such household words all at once, and especially before an
audience many of whose members had from time immemorial
known me as "Johnny"—well, to speak with frankness, it got on my
nerves.
My condition was like that foreshadowed by a good old neighbor of
mine up on the coast of Maine, who when I asked him one morning
if he ever felt nervous when the thunder was roaring, and the
lightning was striking viciously, replied, "No, I hain't never felt
nervous: I'm jest plain dam skeert to death!" If the exits from the
stage had not been guarded, I should have fled; but there was no
escape, and while I awaited my turn to go out upon the platform I
paced the back of the stage, concealed from the public gaze by a
drop scene, shaking from head to foot with a nervous chill. I can
scarcely even now bring myself to believe that there was a
seismograph anywhere between the northern and southern poles so
callous as to fail to register my vibrations.
It became evident as the moment approached that I should be
utterly unable to go out upon the platform and do anything but
dance: not after the graceful manner of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Castle,
but of Saint Vitus himself. To have held a book, even so light a one
as my own, in my shaking hand would have been physically
impossible, and then, just as I was about to seek out the chairman
of the committee of arrangements, and plead a sudden stroke of
some sort, I felt a womanly arm thrust through my own, and a soft
white hand was laid gently and soothingly upon my wrist. I glanced
to my side, and there stood Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, her lovely eyes
full of sympathy, touched with a joyous reassuring twinkle.
"Oh, Mr. Bangs," said she, with a slight catch and tremor in her
voice, "do you know I am so nervous about going out before all
those people to-night that I really believe I shall have to borrow
some of your manly courage and strength to carry me through!"
A marvelous transformation of nervous attitude was the immediate
result, a determination to rush to the aid of a lady flying a signal of
distress summoning all my latent courage to her cause. A realization
of the lovely tactfulness of her approach and its true significance,
and the prompt response of my sense of humor, not yet quite dead,
to the exact facts of the situation, made a man of me for the time
being—a man who would dare the undarable, attempt the
unattainable, and if need be, as the eloquent African preacher once
observed, "onscrew the onscrutable." Nervousness, cowardice,
muscular vibrations, and all disappeared like the mists of the night
before the radiance of the dawn in the face of that gracious woman's
tactful humor, and later on I went forth to my doom so brazenly, and
smiling so confidently, that one critic in the next morning's
newspaper intimated without much subtlety of phrasing that I
enjoyed myself far more than my audience did.
It would be too much to say that Mrs. Howe's timely intervention on
my behalf effected a permanent cure of my nervousness in platform
work; but it has helped me much to overcome it; for many a time
since, when through sheer weariness, or for some purely
psychological reason, I have approached my work with uneasy
forebodings, the memory of that delightful incident has come back
to me, and I have invariably found relief from my fears in the smile
which it never fails to bring to my lips, and to my spirit as well.
I do not know that it would be a good thing for any public speaker
ever to approach the emergent hour with entire assurance and
utterly calloused nerves. Such a condition might well bespeak an
indifference to the work in hand which would result either in a purely
mechanical delivery, or one so careless as to destroy the effect of
the lecturer's most valuable asset—a sympathetic personality. I recall
far back in my college days, in the early '80's of the last century,
meeting at one of my fraternity conventions that inspiring publicist,
the late Senator Frye of Maine. In the course of a pleasant chat,
having myself to appear before the convention with a committee
report the following morning, and feeling a trifle uncertain as to how
I was going to "come through," I asked the senator if he was ever a
victim to nervousness when making a public address, and his answer
was very suggestive.
"Always, my lad," said he, "always! I have been making public
speeches off and on now for twenty-five or thirty years, and even to-
day when I rise up to speak in the United States Senate, or on the
stump, my knees shake a little under me. And I'm glad they do,
Son," he went on significantly; "for if they didn't, I should begin to
feel that the days of my usefulness were over, for it would mean that
I really didn't care whether I got through safely or not."
So it was that up to a certain point I sympathized with my friend the
distinguished after-dinner speaker when he intimated that the
lecture platform was no bed of roses. For one of his nervous
organization and temperament it would be impossible. It would
make a nervous wreck of him in a short while, and in the end would
shorten his life, even as it has shortened the span of many another
robust spirit; such as the late Alfred Tennyson Dickens, for instance,
who in very truth succumbed to the exactions of travel and of a
lovely hospitality that he knew not how to resist.

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