. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . nshaken nerve and afreedom from getting rattled, no matterwhat happens. A recent instance of thiswas in a foundry where a huge ladle ofsteel was being carried to the molds. Thebottom of the ladle caught on a projectingbar and was in imminent danger of beingspilled on some nearby workman. Quickas could be, the crane man stopped the for-ward movement and began to hoist, pre-venting several thousand pounds of moltensteel being spilled over the workman. Similar cases frequently occur in ma-chine shops, where
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . nshaken nerve and afreedom from getting rattled, no matterwhat happens. A recent instance of thiswas in a foundry where a huge ladle ofsteel was being carried to the molds. Thebottom of the ladle caught on a projectingbar and was in imminent danger of beingspilled on some nearby workman. Quickas could be, the crane man stopped the for-ward movement and began to hoist, pre-venting several thousand pounds of moltensteel being spilled over the workman. Similar cases frequently occur in ma-chine shops, where a false move wouldsmash valuable machinery and perhapskill a dozen men. Yet few accidents hap-pen, which shows that even the ratherpoorly paid labor (when the conditionsare considered) gives excellent results. The possibilities for doing damage byanything but the most delicate handling areshown in assembling large pieces of ma-chinery by the crane. I recently saw alarge machine in which the interior pieceweighed .several tons, and which had to belowered into place in exactly the right. position. Certain parts fitted togetherwithin three one-thousandths of an inch,and these must be lowered into place with-out damaging either part. That this canbe done shows excellent mechanism in theconstruction of crane and remarkablehandling by the operator. The questionis. What is it worth to have a cranehandled like this? I. B. Rich. Honeybrook, Pa. A Collapsed Dry Pipe. Enclosed find a section of a cop-per dry pipe just removed from an eight-wheel 18x24 passenger engine. (Anexact diagram of the pipe is here repro-duced). This pipe was flattened about 6feet in length, and presents some pointsfor reflection. The engine has been run-ning for the past week in this condition,because it was impossible to take her outof service on account of shortness ofpower. During the week or more that theengine was in service, she had been haul-ing from eight to twelve cars on nearly alevel road; and w
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