. Electric railway journal . and one-half pairs of wheels. By theuse of the lugs six pairs of wheels can be turned out ina day. Home-Made Armature-BandingTensioner A home-made device which provides about in the armature-banding wire, has been con-structed by the mechanical department of the Gales-burg Railway, Lighting & Power Company, Galesburg,111. This tensioner con-sists of sixteen steelspools, 1 in. in diameter,mounted on bearingsset on a steel bar at 1 Va-in, centers. As shownin the accompanying il-lustration, this bar isbent to form a clamparound a pipe wire
. Electric railway journal . and one-half pairs of wheels. By theuse of the lugs six pairs of wheels can be turned out ina day. Home-Made Armature-BandingTensioner A home-made device which provides about in the armature-banding wire, has been con-structed by the mechanical department of the Gales-burg Railway, Lighting & Power Company, Galesburg,111. This tensioner con-sists of sixteen steelspools, 1 in. in diameter,mounted on bearingsset on a steel bar at 1 Va-in, centers. As shownin the accompanying il-lustration, this bar isbent to form a clamparound a pipe wire is threadedthrough the spools inthe usual manner, andthirteen spools are usedto obtain 250-lb. tensionin the banding supply of bandingwire is contained on areel mounted on the pipestandard above the ten-sioner. In order to ob-viate the slack wire be-tween the reel and thetension spools, a bell cord is placed in a groove cut in the periphery of oneof the sides of the reel and attached by a spring tothe HOME-MADE ARMATURE-BAND-ING TENSIONER Sand-Blasting and Testing Headlights On the Portland (Me.) city and suburban lines of theCumberland County Power & Light Company the glareof headlights is being virtually eliminated by sand-blasting the glass fronts, as shown in the accompanyingillustration. The headlights are of Crouse-Hinds de-sign, and are combination arc and incandescent glass fronts are 12 in. in diameter. At the bot-tom of the glass a clear area of parabolic shape, about
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