. Railway age gazette . he end, where there are two holes. These arerepaired by placing a -yl in. by 7 in. piece of Empire steel or% in. by 7 in. iron across the face and up 3 or 4 in. on eachside. They are then placed in a fire with the edge down anda welding heat taken for 2 in. up the side. It is worked witha flatter on a cast iron block and then turned up edgewise andswedged. These are repaired at $2 per side, and of the 400we have done not one has failed at the weld. W. J. King, Illinois Central, is doing a great deal in reclaimingsecond-hand iron. The old arch bars are being worked intob
. Railway age gazette . he end, where there are two holes. These arerepaired by placing a -yl in. by 7 in. piece of Empire steel or% in. by 7 in. iron across the face and up 3 or 4 in. on eachside. They are then placed in a fire with the edge down anda welding heat taken for 2 in. up the side. It is worked witha flatter on a cast iron block and then turned up edgewise andswedged. These are repaired at $2 per side, and of the 400we have done not one has failed at the weld. W. J. King, Illinois Central, is doing a great deal in reclaimingsecond-hand iron. The old arch bars are being worked intobrake levers and safety hangers, and the round iron into bolts,safety hangers, or anything that can be made from second-handiron. Old transoms are used for knuckle plates and are alsomade into new transoms. Old bolts are saved by piecing themout. This work is done by inexpensive handymen, who havekept the plant in bolts for the past five months, eliminating thenecessity of making new bolts. Small scrap springs are lieing. Fig. 13—Dies for Bending Cellar Bolts In a Power Punch made into ripping bars for the car men, and the packing hooksand paddles used in packing hot boxes are made out of discarded8 in. air cylinder springs. Old tools in the machine shop arebeing reworked into smaller tools and small high speed steeltools are made for use in tool-holders, all these tools beingmarked so that the grade may be readily distinguished. J. W. Riley, Lehigh Valley: Fig. 12 shows dies for formingwrenches from scrap spring steel under the Bradley dies can also be used under a steam hammer. By thismethod a wrench can be made 9/16 in. thick from y% in. scrapspring leaves. These wrenches are forged in two heats andone man can forge on an average of 150 blanks in 10 they are forged they are punched hot on a power punchwith a close-fitting die and are then rattled until they arepolished. They are then sized on a small emery wheel whereone man can grind 300 in 10 hour
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