. Electric railway journal . 5. Ful-crums for 200 trucks have been so remodeled. No. 16 shows the fulcrum as it was before cuttingit for No. 15. Some of these fulcrums were found togive way at the place shown by the pencil mark. Toovercome this a 3/4-in. x 1-in. iron was bent to fit overthe part where the eyelet is, extending to about the cen-ter of the back of the fulcrum. Then the iron wassecured to the fulcrum by means of electric welding. Fig. 3 is a pedestal for a storage-battery piece was broken at the points shown by the chalkmarks, the jaws having been broken off entirely
. Electric railway journal . 5. Ful-crums for 200 trucks have been so remodeled. No. 16 shows the fulcrum as it was before cuttingit for No. 15. Some of these fulcrums were found togive way at the place shown by the pencil mark. Toovercome this a 3/4-in. x 1-in. iron was bent to fit overthe part where the eyelet is, extending to about the cen-ter of the back of the fulcrum. Then the iron wassecured to the fulcrum by means of electric welding. Fig. 3 is a pedestal for a storage-battery piece was broken at the points shown by the chalkmarks, the jaws having been broken off entirely whenthe sweeper left the track during the snowstorm of The pedestal was removed from the sweeper, sentto the shop, repaired and returned to the sweeper withintwelve hours. This job was accomplished by boltingthe jaws in place with two strips of iron and by weld-ing. The metal was preheated in a blacksmith forge,welded while hot and when finished it was left to coolin the dying forge fire. This precaution was taken to. Fig. 3—Repaired Pedestal of a Storage Battery Sweeper prevent cracking from unequal contraction, as the mate-rial was cast iron. It is unnecessary to give the costs and other particu-lars of these jobs, since it is apparent to all how greatthe saving must be, particularly in the case of castingsNos. 1 and 3 and the sweeper pedestal. The main pointis to be able to keep the cars moving by having avail-able a convenient means of repairing important parts. February 28, 1914.] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 483 ELECTRIC TRUCK WITH REMOVABLE TOWER The Union Electric Company, Dubuque, la., has in usean electric 1-ton truck which is equipped with a remov-able trolley-repair tower so that the vehicle may beemployed either as a regular delivery truck or as a tower
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