. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ake a specialty ofMasonic and all other Emblems, Diamonds purchased of us at presentprices are a good investment. Wehave a fine line of the best RailroadWatches at rock bottom of every description. WM. R. PHELPS & CO. 3a MAIDEN LANE. NEW YORK, N. Y, Joining these two heavy cross barsand on their lower side is a followertaken from the draw gear of some dis-abled car and from this follower hangsan ordinary Watson-Stillman hydraulicjack in good working order. The han-dles of the j
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ake a specialty ofMasonic and all other Emblems, Diamonds purchased of us at presentprices are a good investment. Wehave a fine line of the best RailroadWatches at rock bottom of every description. WM. R. PHELPS & CO. 3a MAIDEN LANE. NEW YORK, N. Y, Joining these two heavy cross barsand on their lower side is a followertaken from the draw gear of some dis-abled car and from this follower hangsan ordinary Watson-Stillman hydraulicjack in good working order. The han-dles of the jack do not lie idle, for tothem are attached chains which run upand over a pair of small sheaves and attlie ends of these chains counterbalanc-ing weights are suspended so that whenthe jack has been run out in doing apiece of work it can be pulled up againto the original hung up is a gauge on the japk whichregisters the pressure applied and bywhich the operator can tell what he isdoing with this portable hydraulicpress, for that is what the apparatus iswhen all is said and HOME-MADE PORTABLE HYDRAULIC PRESS. Big Four, at Indianapolis, of which F. Griffin is the general foreman. Itconsists of a flat table of cast iron about3 ins. thick and 2 ft. 6 ins. wide by 4 , ribbed on the sides, and mountedon a couple of pair of wheels and sup-plied with a handle for pulling it aboutthe shop. Four upright bars, i;4 , are let into the flat table, eachhas a collar on the upper side; the barsare secured with nuts below the upper ends of these four uprightbars or pillar bolts, as they might becalled, are threaded at their tops andthey support and hold two bars of ironabout 4 ins. wide by 354 ins. high, andthese stand across and above the table,and are at a distance of 4 ft. 6 ins. fromit, and they are about 8 or 10 ins. apart. One has sometimes seen men at awreck place jacks under an engine andproceed to work them, and if there hasbeen m
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