. The Street railway journal . ivesthe shaft, B. This shaft, when worn out, can be replacedby removing the nut, C, drawing out the shaft and in-serting a new one, thus saving the expense of tearing thearmature down and rebuilding, as not even a wire con- nection is disturbed. The commutator is on a taperedportion of the shaft, the same as the pinion, and can bemore easily drawn off for refilling. Both commutatorand pinion are held in place by nuts properly locked byan ingenious lockwasher. This motor contains all the long tried constructionalpoints which experience has proven to work well, and
. The Street railway journal . ivesthe shaft, B. This shaft, when worn out, can be replacedby removing the nut, C, drawing out the shaft and in-serting a new one, thus saving the expense of tearing thearmature down and rebuilding, as not even a wire con- nection is disturbed. The commutator is on a taperedportion of the shaft, the same as the pinion, and can bemore easily drawn off for refilling. Both commutatorand pinion are held in place by nuts properly locked byan ingenious lockwasher. This motor contains all the long tried constructionalpoints which experience has proven to work well, and theweak points existing in other types are claimed to beeliminated. Being flexibly supported, it will remove alltrouble with rail joints, as in practice the motor runs asquietly as the old horse car. Not even the gear noise isheard, as the gears are enclosed in airtight housings andrun in oil. The excellent workmanship, for which theWalker Company is famous, tells greatly in this class ofmachinery. THE STREET RAILWAY April, 1894.] THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 233 The thirty-five horse power motor shown in Fig. 7weighs 2,500 lbs., and is intended for heavy street railwaywork, where very large cars or trains of cars are is made of cast iron, and has an efficiency of nearly 90
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