Canadian machinery and metalworking (January-June 1919) . WHAT OUR READERSTHINK AND DO. Views and Opinions Regarding Industrial Developments, Factory Administra-tion and Allied Topics Relating to Engineering Activity RE-DRAAWING STEEL IN THE MA-CHINE SHOP By D. A. MIDDLETON THERE was a time when manufac-turers could get two hundred poundlots of cold drawn steel of odd sizesand shapes, and get it at a months that was before 1914. Numerous man-ufactured articles were built up around apiece of steel so cleverly drawn that apiece machined to the same shape couldnot compete with it. When
Canadian machinery and metalworking (January-June 1919) . WHAT OUR READERSTHINK AND DO. Views and Opinions Regarding Industrial Developments, Factory Administra-tion and Allied Topics Relating to Engineering Activity RE-DRAAWING STEEL IN THE MA-CHINE SHOP By D. A. MIDDLETON THERE was a time when manufac-turers could get two hundred poundlots of cold drawn steel of odd sizesand shapes, and get it at a months that was before 1914. Numerous man-ufactured articles were built up around apiece of steel so cleverly drawn that apiece machined to the same shape couldnot compete with it. When the millsgot to where they could no longer han-dle special work, many of these articlesdisappeared from the market. A device for converting standardshapes of steel into specials—redrawingit, as it were—is shown by Fig. 2 andin Fig. 1 will be seen two of the simplerforms that by its use were made possibleat low additional cost. In this case, thebars as received from the mill in theform of specials had always been putinto saws and millers and cut up intothe desired lengths, which
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