. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . excepting the crotch piece at the bendor turn is cut a third through on each side,as shown, and a gusset, ^, cramped in theturn and brazed ; then the other two sidepieces are thinned, cramped and broughttogether and wired, the seam dresseddown and chattered loose, then brazed. Small cross or four-way pieces are madesimilar to three-way by joining four sad-dle pieces together with a gusset, unlesssome special purpose calls for anothermethod. In large work, two ways areadopted, according to the skill of th


. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . excepting the crotch piece at the bendor turn is cut a third through on each side,as shown, and a gusset, ^, cramped in theturn and brazed ; then the other two sidepieces are thinned, cramped and broughttogether and wired, the seam dresseddown and chattered loose, then brazed. Small cross or four-way pieces are madesimilar to three-way by joining four sad-dle pieces together with a gusset, unlesssome special purpose calls for anothermethod. In large work, two ways areadopted, according to the skill of theworkmen engaged. The first by cutting out two pieces, asshown in Fig. 67, and raiing down thethroats and making the four joints bycramping the pieces together in the four side and cramping together. extend all rou J er makinj, b ft 1 kr J nt ) When lonecool It in clean water The faLC of theflange should look now like a piece offresh clean sheet brass. Place the outletin position and wire it fast to the mainpipe. It may now be braied on the brickforge. Fig. 56, by laying solder li inch. r less. half of which should be on the outletflange and the other on the main pipe;heal the main pipe slowly until it is bloodred in the shade ; by this time the borasand spelter on the joint should have theappearance as if varnish was among thespelter, caused by the melting of the offer the solder to a moderate briskfire of sufficient power to make it run andflow with ease, filling the joint rightthrough to the edge of the burr , however, the job is of such a naturethat it is inconvenient to handle at thebrick forge on account of sisse and weight,or some other contingency, a balloon fire lage, and by its agency the fire may betaken to the work instead of taking the s omitted To work outlets from thepipe, which it IS sometimes betterlore convenient to do. we proceed asthe pipe. Fig. 58. at the point from thes ■utlet i: ; Off t followwhere distance equal to one-half the circ


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