. Railway mechanical engineer . led, and arethen sent to the sorting room in which is located a long tableto enable them to be sorted quickly and placed in bins. Thereare located in the same building two seven-spindle nut-tap-ping machines which are in close proximity to the bins, sothat the nuts after being sorted can be easily and quicklyhandled to the tapping machines, and from the machines intokegs ready for use. All of this work is handled on a piece-work basis. We reclaim 125 kegs of nuts per month. There is also located in this building a large alligator shearwhich is used to shear up r
. Railway mechanical engineer . led, and arethen sent to the sorting room in which is located a long tableto enable them to be sorted quickly and placed in bins. Thereare located in the same building two seven-spindle nut-tap-ping machines which are in close proximity to the bins, sothat the nuts after being sorted can be easily and quicklyhandled to the tapping machines, and from the machines intokegs ready for use. All of this work is handled on a piece-work basis. We reclaim 125 kegs of nuts per month. There is also located in this building a large alligator shearwhich is used to shear up rods into bolt lengths if the ironis in good condition. These bolts are then sent to the black-smith shop, headed and threaded. This shear is also usedto cut heavy wrought iron bars into lengths suitable for thefurnaces at the rolling mill. ROLLING MILL All iron that cannot be used in its present shape (for ex-ample, old arch bars are used for step brackets for switchingengines, the filling pieces removed from composite bolsters. Furnace for Reclaiming Coil Springs are used for re-enforcing steel center sills) or which wouldnot be too expensive to forge to size to enter the rolls, is sentto the rolling mill. This is in a separate building, con-structed from scrap material. There is a large furnace and amotor-driven set of Ajax reclaiming rolls. There are rolledapproximately 1,000 tons per year, and at present prices ofiron and steel, quite a saving is effected. Average saving,after deducting cost of scrap, labor, maintenance, fuel andsupervision, amounts to $1,100 per month. SPRINGS AND COUPLERS Located in the rolling mill building is a coil spring re-claiming plant, the furnace being constructed from scrap archbrick and firebrick broken in transit. The springs are sorted,heated and the coils separated to give proper height; theyare then tempered and tested and are again ready for 100 to 125 springs are reclaimed per day. Steel couplers with the stems bent, eyes pul
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