. Railway mechanical engineer . house and in addition supplies oil for eight portable it was planned to utilize oxy-acetylene torches to a large Layout of Machine Tools adaptability in handling the wide range of work that is metin making heavy repairs to steel cars. All the large pressedsteel parts standard to New Haven cars are bought from carbuilders and a majority of the other parts are received readyfor application, so no tools for quantity production are Decembkr, 1921 RAILWAY MECHANICAL ENGINEER 753 needed. Many of the smaller steel parts are made on theMcCabe Sanger or on a 1
. Railway mechanical engineer . house and in addition supplies oil for eight portable it was planned to utilize oxy-acetylene torches to a large Layout of Machine Tools adaptability in handling the wide range of work that is metin making heavy repairs to steel cars. All the large pressedsteel parts standard to New Haven cars are bought from carbuilders and a majority of the other parts are received readyfor application, so no tools for quantity production are Decembkr, 1921 RAILWAY MECHANICAL ENGINEER 753 needed. Many of the smaller steel parts are made on theMcCabe Sanger or on a 12 ft. pneumatic clamp. Straighten-ing is done by means of a 15 ton Gross press or on a faceplate. For heating sheets or structural shapes, an 8 ft. by 12ft. oil furnace is provided. Other equipment includes a1,200 lb. steam hammer, a 48 in. punch and shear, twohooded forges and one large open forge, a 06 in. drill press,a. lathe, bolt threader and wet and dry grinders. The seven tracks on the opposite side of the incoming track. Gasoline Tractor Used for Switching Cars Around the Shop comprising the stripping department, are especially equippedfor this work. Air jacks mounted on wheels are providedfor raising the cars and a 1,200 lb. air hoist for handling thesheets is mounted on a runway above the center line of eachtrack. On these tracks the cars are cut down with the oxy-acetylene torch. The parts to be discarded are picked up byan electric load-carrying truck with a jib crane and are car-ried directly to the scrap car. As the old material is re-moved the new sheets are brought in by truck and are set on
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