. Railway age gazette . all kinds ofboiler work, broken steam and exhaust pipes, air pump heads,gear wheels, pulleys, built up the inside lap of slide valves,malleable iron parts for cars, parts for air drill, cast steel partsof various shapes, brass parts such as lubricators, brass andaluminum castings, and in fact there are very few parts whichare usually found about a railroad shop which cannot be welding has very materially reduced the cost of re-pairs, and in addition the engines are not kept out of servicenear so long as they would be had it been necessary to makerepa
. Railway age gazette . all kinds ofboiler work, broken steam and exhaust pipes, air pump heads,gear wheels, pulleys, built up the inside lap of slide valves,malleable iron parts for cars, parts for air drill, cast steel partsof various shapes, brass parts such as lubricators, brass andaluminum castings, and in fact there are very few parts whichare usually found about a railroad shop which cannot be welding has very materially reduced the cost of re-pairs, and in addition the engines are not kept out of servicenear so long as they would be had it been necessary to makerepairs in the old way. In the boiler shop, alone, the oxy-acetylene process has reduced the labor cost 20 per cent or 25per cent. Welding Practices on the Delaware & Hudson.—That road ismaking a very considerable saving with the electric welding,and discontinuing its use would mean the manufacture of agreat many new parts that are now built up and reclaimed. The oxy-acetylene system was installed last year by the Ox-. Fig. 6—Copper Safe End on Charcoal Iron Tube weld Railroad Supply Company. Tlie class of work done in-cludes the welding of various castings when defective, buildingup of the worn surfaces on the heavier castings (as this is asurer process than the electrical) welding of engine frames,which are not always successful, welding engine truck framesand cradles, all frame braces and brackets, plugging holes inheavy motion work parts, reclaiming nearly all tender bolsters,:-;uides and pedestals, cracked locomotive bells, etc. On boilerwork all firebox door sheets are welded when they join in thelire door hole, patches to boilers are applied, and sections tollue sheets and broken bridges are welded. In cutting, this sys-tem is indispensable. As to cost the total saving shows a con-siderable balance in favor of autogenous welding. Some of the features to be guarded against with this systen^,especially if the shop is piped, are leaky joints in pipes, hose,fittings and conn
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