. Electric railway journal . tion is intelligent atten-tion to the packing inboxes on equipment inservice. Briefly it con-sists of lightly looseningup the packing on eachside of journal to avoidthe hardened and glazedcondition which iscaused by the packingremaining too long indirect contact with jour-nal. This work can be Fig. 8—Galvanized Iron Carry- effectively accomplisheding Box for Waste and the use of a good Tools steel tool, which should have a sharp V-shapedend, as shown in Figs. 6 and 7, to secure a free flow of oilfrom packing to journal. Cars in the shops for general repairs sho
. Electric railway journal . tion is intelligent atten-tion to the packing inboxes on equipment inservice. Briefly it con-sists of lightly looseningup the packing on eachside of journal to avoidthe hardened and glazedcondition which iscaused by the packingremaining too long indirect contact with jour-nal. This work can be Fig. 8—Galvanized Iron Carry- effectively accomplisheding Box for Waste and the use of a good Tools steel tool, which should have a sharp V-shapedend, as shown in Figs. 6 and 7, to secure a free flow of oilfrom packing to journal. Cars in the shops for general repairs should have the pack-ing removed and the boxes repacked with freshly saturated. Fig. 9—An Example of Improper and Wasteful OilingPractice packing. Packing removed should be repicked, cleaned andre-saturated for future use. This work should be done wheninspection shows it necessary. The object is to maintainan elastic condition of the packing. 47o ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXXVII. No. n. Brasses should not be transferred from one journal toanother. Before applying suitable-sized brasses the journaland the surface of the brass should be cleaned and oiled withGalena car oil. Where M. C. B. brasses using wedge orkey are employed, they should be examined carefully beforegoing into service to see if the key and wedge are a proper fitand work correctly together. All lumps or uneven placesshould be carefully removed before installing. The brassesshould not be allowed in service when they are worn downto 3/16 in. thickness, as the dross metal then becomes ex-posed to contact with the journal and hot bearings plates should be carefully fitted and frequ
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