. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . PNEUMATIC STAY-BOLT CUTTER. standard tire gage, is lowered until itstrikes the tire, and the wear is at onceapparent, be it where it may. The ad-justable piece in the center is used tomeasure the wear; it can be set to show. TIRE GAGE. the tread wear or flange wear; and if, then,the gage is moved around the wheel un-even wear is not hard to detect. A FLUE-HOLE CUTTER. Almost all flue-hole cutters have benttools, that in cutting out the hole savesorrie stock—that is, cut a washer. They use one at Horton t
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . PNEUMATIC STAY-BOLT CUTTER. standard tire gage, is lowered until itstrikes the tire, and the wear is at onceapparent, be it where it may. The ad-justable piece in the center is used tomeasure the wear; it can be set to show. TIRE GAGE. the tread wear or flange wear; and if, then,the gage is moved around the wheel un-even wear is not hard to detect. A FLUE-HOLE CUTTER. Almost all flue-hole cutters have benttools, that in cutting out the hole savesorrie stock—that is, cut a washer. They use one at Horton that beats any cutting edge by the solid head. E is awedge that holds the cutter in place. Cis clearance space for chips, and D theprojection that enters the punched holein sheet to guide the cutter. When thistool is cutting a sheet, a good honestbite is taken, and the metal cut out easierthan with a bent tool. When nearlythrough the sheet it acts as a punch, takesout the bottom and leaves a clean, truehole. STE.\M-H.\MMER DIE FOR FORMING BODY BOLSTER. Out in the blacksmith shop I noticedan ingenious rig for forming the endsof the top member of wrought-iron bodybolsters. The metal is cut to the rightlength, and punched while yet flat. The ends are heated and formed undera steam hammer, with specia
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