. American engineer and railroad journal . hile referring to the home-made tools, allusion mustbe made to the arrangement for grinding joints in stand, dryand steam pipes. It is nothing but an old drill press with aswinging frame added, by which the collar to be ground canbe rotated and moved over the end of the pipe to which it isto fit. It has a universal motion, and does its work so easilyand rapidly that it must divide the expense of making suchjoints by hand by from five to value of the milling machine as a competitor of the Opening off the main machine shop is the paint shop, w
. American engineer and railroad journal . hile referring to the home-made tools, allusion mustbe made to the arrangement for grinding joints in stand, dryand steam pipes. It is nothing but an old drill press with aswinging frame added, by which the collar to be ground canbe rotated and moved over the end of the pipe to which it isto fit. It has a universal motion, and does its work so easilyand rapidly that it must divide the expense of making suchjoints by hand by from five to value of the milling machine as a competitor of the Opening off the main machine shop is the paint shop, whichhas a tank or store closet that is worthy of imitation. It ispurely for protection against fire and those persons who areprone to help themselves to the property of other people. Itconsists of a plate-iron room about 7 ft. high, 8 ft. wide and12 ft. long. It is ventilated at the top, but the ventilator is soprotected that it is impossible for maliciousness or carelessnessto get fire into the place by that opening ; aud the entrance is. closed by a plate-iron door that is locked at night. All paintsand oils are stored in this vault at night, and the oil and var-nish tanks are built in permanently, so that all danger fromfire is removed. The power house is equipped with six locomotive boilers, aCorliss engine with a 17 in. X 48 in. cylinder. This enginedrives all of the machinery of the machine and wood-workingshops. There is also a smaller slide-valve engine driving three10-light dynamos. 446 THE AMERICAN ENGINEER [October, 1894. Among the buildings connected with the shops is the oilhouse, which is provided with un air lift very similar to thatillustrated in our issue for August, us in use by the West ShoreRailroad, for forcing the oil from the barrels in which it is de-livered to the storage tanks. The dope used for packing oilboxes is prepared here in a large tank, of which we give a sec-tional engraving. The waste is dumped into one of the com-partments marked soaking, a
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