. Railway master mechanic . ion care-fully before jumping into an expensive and compli-cated system for supposed advantages. Since the question of car heating has become aburning one, if you will excuse the pun, state legis-lators and the public have properly demanded thatthe railways should exijeriment in the direction ofsomething safer. This promises l<i lie productive ofgootl r~i;.t- 1. : !.,!,■ ,11,,; , Mvr, themselves,but it .- . I ..utcry will not bedii- ■ .1 _ ..lilem, leaving what !- r. a 1 . a I, .. -f h .11 .. .■. ■. ■ 11. i il irileiesli-il —Ihe c an«a\!, the
. Railway master mechanic . ion care-fully before jumping into an expensive and compli-cated system for supposed advantages. Since the question of car heating has become aburning one, if you will excuse the pun, state legis-lators and the public have properly demanded thatthe railways should exijeriment in the direction ofsomething safer. This promises l<i lie productive ofgootl r~i;.t- 1. : !.,!,■ ,11,,; , Mvr, themselves,but it .- . I ..utcry will not bedii- ■ .1 _ ..lilem, leaving what !- r. a 1 . a I, .. -f h .11 .. .■. ■. ■ 11. i il irileiesli-il —Ihe c an«a\!, themselves. .\ neat little book is issued by the Gorham Manu-fa»turing Company, of Providence, R. I., under thetitle The Source and Nature of Klectricity, and ItsApplication to the Electro-plating Process. Thebook was written by Mr. Scott A. Smith, member ofthe American Society of Mechanical Engineers, whohas handled this subject in an unusually interestingmanner. A t-T I !. COMMUNICATIONS- Concluded from page 02. Driving-wheel Fits—A Kink for the Wheel Press. ScRASTos, April 14, tlio of llie Hallway Master Mechanic: Dear Sir : I read an article in yoiu paper of last monthas to whether the axle should be the same size at thewheel fit as at the journal, or turned down to form a shoul-der to press the wheel against. I would like to say that it is not such a hard job to presson a wheel without a shoulder fit, as many would Mechanic Charles Graham, of the Delaware, Lack-awanna & Westera Railroad Company, at Scranton, Pa.,has for many vears used an easy device by which the wheelmay be pressed to its proper position and no further. Hehas the wheel fit and journal turned down to the same he has a cast iron block U,^ in. in diameter and 13,Vin. long, hanging central with the axle and between the axleand the head of the press, and held by a small chain fromthe longitudinal guy rod of the press. One end of thisblock has a
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