. Electric railway journal . t is complete it is sent to the department clerk,who requisitions the storeroom for the new materialrequired. Since all wooden repair parts are made onstoreroom orders and carried in stock, only the exactquantity of material is given out on requisition. Underordinary conditions the workmen go to the storeroomfor this material, but during heavy reconstructionperiods special material chasers are detailed to do thiswork. When the repair work has been completed in thecarpenter shop a car-body inspector carefully examinesthe quality of the work, and if it is satisfactor
. Electric railway journal . t is complete it is sent to the department clerk,who requisitions the storeroom for the new materialrequired. Since all wooden repair parts are made onstoreroom orders and carried in stock, only the exactquantity of material is given out on requisition. Underordinary conditions the workmen go to the storeroomfor this material, but during heavy reconstructionperiods special material chasers are detailed to do thiswork. When the repair work has been completed in thecarpenter shop a car-body inspector carefully examinesthe quality of the work, and if it is satisfactory thecar is moved to the paint shop. Truck and Motor Repairs After the car body has been removed from the trucksthe latter are transferred to the truck bay where themotors and wheels are taken out, the wheels being seton wheel wagons and sent to the machine shop. Inorder to identify each wheel the car number is writtenwith chalk on the inside of the web. The machine shoprequires no written order to do wheel work, and as fast. MILWAUKEE SHOP PROCEDURE—TRUCK OVERHAULING SEC-TION UNDER BALCONY IN REPAIR SHOP as the wheels are removed from the trucks they are seton the storage tracks in this department. When bothmotors have been removed from the truck, they aretaken apart and all worn armature bearings are re-moved. Defective bearings are cleaned periodically andsent to the sub-storeroom in the truck department, fromwhich they are removed daily for rebabbitting. Fol-lowing the rebabbitting process the bearings are againreturned to the storeroom, where the storekeeper re-ceipts for them on a delivery slip made in duplicate, onebeing retained by the storeroom and the other beingreturned to the foreman as his record of delivery. Armatures are removed from all motors and taken tothe armature room on small dollies. Each armature atthe time it leaves the car trucks is marked with the carnumber for identification, the car number being usedby the armature-room foreman in compiling his re
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