. American engineer and railroad journal . BTO. 1.—STEEL PINION K> BEFLAC1 i \vr-n:<\ ONE IN COACH WHEEL LATHE. cheapen the cost of production. Even if the new tools are be-ing introduced by men who understand them thoroughly andwho exercise energy in applying them to practical work, theresult will not always be up to expectations, and a host of un-suspected and discouraging evils will be brought in In the first place, the majority of machine tools in railroadshops to-day are imi designed or built to stand the service thatthe highspeed steel would demand of them. To introduce thesesteels
. American engineer and railroad journal . BTO. 1.—STEEL PINION K> BEFLAC1 i \vr-n:<\ ONE IN COACH WHEEL LATHE. cheapen the cost of production. Even if the new tools are be-ing introduced by men who understand them thoroughly andwho exercise energy in applying them to practical work, theresult will not always be up to expectations, and a host of un-suspected and discouraging evils will be brought in In the first place, the majority of machine tools in railroadshops to-day are imi designed or built to stand the service thatthe highspeed steel would demand of them. To introduce thesesteels in the ordinary course of events will often prove dis-astrous to the machines (Fig. 1). if these are speeded up or. pjGi o—STEADY BE8T, BEDESIQNED TOE HEAVY UUTTINO SEHV1CE. worked with heavy cuts, unless proper safeguards are depreciation rate becomes much greater under the newcondition than under the old; but with proper management itwill be found profitable to do this when the increased produc-tion capacity is realized. The most difficult factor to deal with, however, when thereis not the whetting of competition (as in the case of commer-cial shops) to tone the management to be vigorous in prose-cuting improved methods, is the attitude of the men. who havegrown used to the old ways, and who view with hostility and 334 AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD JOURNAL.
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