. Railway and Locomotive Engineering . orts the sanders to be inworking order. As soon as one pro-ceeds on another journey the miserablemuddle is repeated. The thermometermay be dancing about zero, and the Waste in Valve and Cylinder : It will be remembered by the olderrailroad men, that before the use ofhard grease in the lubrication of crankpins, that the connecting rods, and Ball-Joint Reamer. Editor; Attached print shows injector boilercheck, ball-joint reamers, which areused by hand when male or femaleball joints are in bad condition. Thesereamers do very accurate work
. Railway and Locomotive Engineering . orts the sanders to be inworking order. As soon as one pro-ceeds on another journey the miserablemuddle is repeated. The thermometermay be dancing about zero, and the Waste in Valve and Cylinder : It will be remembered by the olderrailroad men, that before the use ofhard grease in the lubrication of crankpins, that the connecting rods, and Ball-Joint Reamer. Editor; Attached print shows injector boilercheck, ball-joint reamers, which areused by hand when male or femaleball joints are in bad condition. Thesereamers do very accurate work andcan be taken to the engine and workdone, in place of taking the work tolathe. This print shows one of thetools at work on male injector connec-tion and the other one on female steampipe connection. These tools are heidcentral to their work by the originalconnection nuts, which nuts also feedthe tool to its work, while a few turnsof the tool with wrench completes thejob. Chas. Markel. Shop Foreman. C. & N. W. Ry., Clinton, P BALI-JOINT KEAMER. everything along the sides of locomo-tives were covered with oil, and theoil and mud would be scraped fromunderneath the running boards, at leasthalf an inch thick, every thirty waste ceased when grease cameinto use. The waste is not now sogreat, but there is still a great deal ofoil wasted. For example, in the insideof valve chests and cylinders there areabout sixty square feet of non-bearing Emergency Coupling Nut for Preven-tion of Injector ; A good percentage of locomotive fail-ures or delays at the roundhouse will befound due to stripped injector coupUngnuts; the steam pipe coupling nuts to theinjector being in the majority of casesthe ones at fault. The above condition ofthese nuts is invariably discovered at when the engine has but little time 90 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. March, I9I3. for even hasty repairs before taking hertrain. The accompanying sketch is of anemergency nut made
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