. Electric railway journal . f trailers on sharp curves is prevented. HOME-MADE METAL CUTTER The accompanying illustration shows a combination plateand bar cutter devised in the shops of the Charleston (S. C.)Gas, Railway & Electric Company. The plate-cutting portioncomprises a toggle lever, one arm which is a cast-steel cutterfor handling any piece of cold iron up to and including m-thickness and 3]/- in. breadth; the other arm is a soft steelcutter for hot iron up to and including plates Y\ in. by 4^2 cast steel cutter has a notch at one end to permit the cut-ting of round iron of in-
. Electric railway journal . f trailers on sharp curves is prevented. HOME-MADE METAL CUTTER The accompanying illustration shows a combination plateand bar cutter devised in the shops of the Charleston (S. C.)Gas, Railway & Electric Company. The plate-cutting portioncomprises a toggle lever, one arm which is a cast-steel cutterfor handling any piece of cold iron up to and including m-thickness and 3]/- in. breadth; the other arm is a soft steelcutter for hot iron up to and including plates Y\ in. by 4^2 cast steel cutter has a notch at one end to permit the cut-ting of round iron of in-> 5^-in. and J/2-in. diameter. Therounds cut in this manner need no chamfering to make them fitstandard dies. Bar-iron of 7/$ in. and 1 in. diameter is cut by means of aratchet lever, parallel plates and dies in the following bar first is slipped through the corresponding hole boredin the plates, one of which is movable and the other stationaryThe movable piece carries ca3t-steel cutting dies and is notched. Device for Cutting Bar Iron at the top to mesh with the ratchet lever. Hence when thelatter is pulled over in either direction, the dies are made tobear against the bar and cut it. The base of this combinationcutter consists of an old compromise rail-joint. The platesfor the bar-cutter portion were made from abandoned brake-beams, while a discarded piece of trolley pole tubing answers asa sleeving to increase the leverage. AN UNUSUAL TRAP DOOR LIFT INSTALLED INRICHMOND CARS Many motor trap doors are raised either by means of a ringfastened to the floor in a depression made by cutting away aportion of the floor strips or by placing the top of a lift yokebetween the adjacent strips, which have been beveled for the
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