. Railway mechanical engineer . An Effective, Easily Made Flue Cutter operation. The steel pin D is held in place by means of pinholder E which is also made of tool steel. All wearing partsof the Liberty flue cutter are case hardened to increase theirresistance to wear. Emergency Seat Refacing Tool BY JOHN FLINNERAir Brake Inspector, Pittsburgh & Lake Erie, McKeesport, Pa. A special tool designed to reface the brass seats ofemergency valves applied to Westinghouse triple valves ofeither the passenger or freight type is shown in the illustra-tion. The emergency valve seat is placed in the base
. Railway mechanical engineer . An Effective, Easily Made Flue Cutter operation. The steel pin D is held in place by means of pinholder E which is also made of tool steel. All wearing partsof the Liberty flue cutter are case hardened to increase theirresistance to wear. Emergency Seat Refacing Tool BY JOHN FLINNERAir Brake Inspector, Pittsburgh & Lake Erie, McKeesport, Pa. A special tool designed to reface the brass seats ofemergency valves applied to Westinghouse triple valves ofeither the passenger or freight type is shown in the illustra-tion. The emergency valve seat is placed in the base A ofthe fixture as shown. Part B, provided with two handles, isarranged to turn into the base A, holding the brass emergency c — D — -■-.• . Tool for Refacing Emergency Valve Seats valve seat firmly in place. An adjusting screw C may beturned down by hand against a shoulder on the valve stemcarrying the cutting tool D. This cutting tool is double act-ing, so ground as to give the required shape to the valveseat. It is held in place by means of a square-headed setscrew as shown. This emergency valve seat refacing tool has been usedwith good results as it makes possible the refacing of valveseats that become worn or cut in service. In addition, oldstyle valve seats may be refaced, giving them the improvedsemi-circular section shown, which has been found to givebetter service. A Profitable Railroad Reclamation Project 170 Tons of Bar Iron a Month Rolled From BundledScrap at Beech Grove Shops of the Big Four ESTABLISHED early in 1918 for the purpose of re-rolling bar scrap, the rolling mill at the Beech Grove(Indianapolis, Ind.) shops of the Cleveland, Cincin-nati, Chicago & St. Louis has since been adapted to thereclamati
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