. The Street railway journal . 3 ins. wide, grooved as shown by Fig. 2, andc!amped over the rupture will stop the leak. The best way to groove a pair of clamps is to run a sawkerf across both blades, as at a, Fig. 3, then clamp bothpieces together and bore right through, as shown. Itdoes not always happen that a bit of proper size is at hand,therefore it is necessary to work out the grooves. Theway to do this is to saw down to the circle, as shown at a,Fig. 4; then split out the thin strips of wood, leaving arough circle, as at b. A few clips with a chisel willsmooth up the groove enough to ma
. The Street railway journal . 3 ins. wide, grooved as shown by Fig. 2, andc!amped over the rupture will stop the leak. The best way to groove a pair of clamps is to run a sawkerf across both blades, as at a, Fig. 3, then clamp bothpieces together and bore right through, as shown. Itdoes not always happen that a bit of proper size is at hand,therefore it is necessary to work out the grooves. Theway to do this is to saw down to the circle, as shown at a,Fig. 4; then split out the thin strips of wood, leaving arough circle, as at b. A few clips with a chisel willsmooth up the groove enough to make it answer all pur-poses, after which it is daubed with putty, elastic cement, or white lead, as shown in Fig. 2, then the two pieces areplaced over the break and screwed tight with a pair ofcarriage bolts. Once the writer tried it and found he had no bolts orlong screws. A couple of clamps, as shown by Fig. 5,were sawed out of hardwood (spruce will do, but will notlast long). If one bolt can be found, the clamp, Fig. 5, is. FIG. 1.—SPLIT FIG. 2.—GROOVE FOR FIG 3.—BORING THEPIPE PIPE GROOVE all right, as illustrated by Fig. 6, where the clamp isshown in position on the pipe. A clamp like that in Fig. 6 was put on the exhaust pipeof a steam pump one cold day last winter. The rig hasnever leaked a drop, and is in place to this day, the ser-vices of a plumber having never been secured, probablyon the principle of letting well enough alone.
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