The polishing and plating of metals; a manual for the electroplater, giving modern methods of polishing, plating, buffing, oxydizing and lacquering metals, for the progressive workman . is not the case with shafting. Ad-ditional power may be cheaply and quickly added electrical-ly and a prosperous business is always wanting morepower in the polishing room, as any superintendent ofa large plant will cheerfully testify. These are some of thereasons why the electrical system of driving is makingrapid headway in large plants. The electrical system of driving also has the advantagethat one may star
The polishing and plating of metals; a manual for the electroplater, giving modern methods of polishing, plating, buffing, oxydizing and lacquering metals, for the progressive workman . is not the case with shafting. Ad-ditional power may be cheaply and quickly added electrical-ly and a prosperous business is always wanting morepower in the polishing room, as any superintendent ofa large plant will cheerfully testify. These are some of thereasons why the electrical system of driving is makingrapid headway in large plants. The electrical system of driving also has the advantagethat one may start in a small way and keep on acldingmotors as more power is required, as it has been found thatit is cheaper to add another motor with each new groupof lathes than to take them out and replace with larger oneswhen more power is wanted; in fact, the more motors thebetter, as far as consumption of current is concerned, be-cause the more motors you have the less shafting therewill be and the fewer belts. It is in doing away with shaft-ing and belts that one of the chief gains is made by theelectrical system. Consequently one need never sell a 34 THE POLISHING AND PLATING OF Fig. 8. High speed buffing lathe, with long spindle. motor for less than it cost, but simply keep it and buy an-other for the additional power that is needed. The direction and amount of light available for eachworkman should always be the first consideration in layingout the arrangement of any polishing room, whether twoor twenty lathes are to be used. Each workman shouldface the light, if possible, so that he may at all times see THE POLISHING AND PLATING OF METALS. 35
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