. The Street railway journal . ht of 370,000 lbs. in the combined fly-wheel and gen-erator field between the two bearings and the cranks justoutside, gives to the shaft an appreciable deflection at the ARMATURE IN COURSE OF CONSTRUCTION AT THE POWERHOUSE the necessary deflection was accurately determined. Asshown by the sketch, this deflection, as calculated from theweight of the generator and rigidity of the shaft, was .0095in. in 30 ins., the length of the level. This deflection of the February i, 1902.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 117 shaft has, of course, no effect on the horizontal cylinders,


. The Street railway journal . ht of 370,000 lbs. in the combined fly-wheel and gen-erator field between the two bearings and the cranks justoutside, gives to the shaft an appreciable deflection at the ARMATURE IN COURSE OF CONSTRUCTION AT THE POWERHOUSE the necessary deflection was accurately determined. Asshown by the sketch, this deflection, as calculated from theweight of the generator and rigidity of the shaft, was .0095in. in 30 ins., the length of the level. This deflection of the February i, 1902.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 117 shaft has, of course, no effect on the horizontal cylinders,as the cylindrical cross-head ways adapt the connectingrod to the inclined rotation of the crank. position and held by temporary spokes before the side webswere put on. One of the illustrations shows the lowersection of this cast-iron rim on the end of the are four of these sections, and they were built uparound the spokes with the wheel in a stationary positionand keyed together. After the rim had been bolted and. POLE PIECES BEFORE FIELD COILS WERE IN POSITION The hub of the generators field magnet, which is madeof cast steel, was placed in position on the shaft beforeany of the peripheral castings or web plates which took


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