. The Street railway journal . PAINT STORE ROOM style of machines. After being wound they are placed upona carriage, and conveyed by a hoist and overhead track tothe dipping vats, which are placed upon the gallery of theroom. The floor of the gallery, in the neighborhood ofthese vats, is covered with sawdust, which entirely pre- STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. December i, 1900.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. vents the workmen from tracking- the insulation about thebuildings. Both armature and field coils are placed in racksor separate divisions of the floor of the gallery, arranged ac-cording to their vario
. The Street railway journal . PAINT STORE ROOM style of machines. After being wound they are placed upona carriage, and conveyed by a hoist and overhead track tothe dipping vats, which are placed upon the gallery of theroom. The floor of the gallery, in the neighborhood ofthese vats, is covered with sawdust, which entirely pre- STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. December i, 1900.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. vents the workmen from tracking- the insulation about thebuildings. Both armature and field coils are placed in racksor separate divisions of the floor of the gallery, arranged ac-cording to their various types and sizes. Thus, when anarmature is to be repaired, it is very easy to obtain the cor-rect coils. In this room also are repaired controllers, re-. REPAIRING ARMATURES sistance boxes, etc. On all the tables and benches are test-ing wires, the terminals of which have a potential of 500volts. This enables the operator to quickly prove his work,and prevents him from allowing short circuits or other de-fects in the apparatus from being covered up as the workproceeds, with the consequent repetition of the repairs. The baking oven in one corner of the room is sufficientlylarge to never hold the work back, and is kept continuouslyat a temperature of 200 deg. F., which isproduced by steam pressure of 60 lbs. in asystem of heating pipes. In the center ofthe room is an auxiliary stock room, whichis supplied every three days from the mainstock room with materials likely to be usedin this department. The top of the racks inwhich this auxiliary stock is kept is used bythe foreman as his office. He thus not onljkeeps directly in touch with the distributionof material, but at the same time has a com-prehensive view of his entire force of work-m
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