. Railway mechanical engineer . bolt shop isnaturally located in the main shops and where bolts and nutsare overhauled in great quantities much of the work is sentthere from the reclamation docks. BOX COVERS, SHOES AXD WEDGES Tlie pile of parts in Fig. 14 is a portion of a considerableaccumulation of oil box covers that arrive in great numbersat the scrap docks. These are in some instances sheetmetal stampings, in others malleable castings. In eithercase the work of reclamation consists in heating and straight-ening the flat covers, straightening out the hinge ends for thepins, closing the end
. Railway mechanical engineer . bolt shop isnaturally located in the main shops and where bolts and nutsare overhauled in great quantities much of the work is sentthere from the reclamation docks. BOX COVERS, SHOES AXD WEDGES Tlie pile of parts in Fig. 14 is a portion of a considerableaccumulation of oil box covers that arrive in great numbersat the scrap docks. These are in some instances sheetmetal stampings, in others malleable castings. In eithercase the work of reclamation consists in heating and straight-ening the flat covers, straightening out the hinge ends for thepins, closing the ends where sprung open, etc., all operationsperformed in the smithy on the scrap docks. The view in Fig. 15 shows a pile of shoes and wedges onthe reclamation platform where the brass is melted out asmentioned in the article last month. The furnace for thework is seen at the left and as there indicated it is fired byoil fuel. The amount of brass thus saved from old shoes andwedges will run to about 2,600 lb. in two weeks time. Ma-. Flg. 14—OH Box Covers to be Straightened terial of this nature is constantly cciniing in from all overthe and tlie total saving of brass from various classesof parts runs into a very high figure. CAR BRASSES Along this line few features of the rcrlumation ])roject aremore important than Ihc saving of malt-rial in the way of old 506 RAILWAY MtoilANICAL ENGINEER Vol. 92, No. 9 car l)^asse^, which l)y the way, are overhauled in the mainl>hint, in the habbitt shop. Formerly up to ten or a dozenyears ago. jirattically all car and truck ;, as the babljittlinins; wore out or burned out, were discarded and sold to thejunk dealers .ind entirely new brasses jmt into their the old brasses all come back to the bal)l)itt shoj) at theSacramento plant and are here relined with new babl)itt un-less worn too thin for further service, or too short on the endsfor use. This means a considerable savinij of old Ijaljliitt which is
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