. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . nder pressure exactly thesame as hot steel. They make dies andformers of hard wood, and try them onlead. If the form is not right, changes are A Labor=Saving Drill. Hard times always mean a .squeezingdown of shop force and a shortening of thehours of labor. Officers who give theseorders are not prone to excuse verymarked deterioration of the power androlling stock, and this causes master me-chanics and foremen to try and devisemeans for reducing the cost of work, sav-ing time, etc. In a recent letter fro
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . nder pressure exactly thesame as hot steel. They make dies andformers of hard wood, and try them onlead. If the form is not right, changes are A Labor=Saving Drill. Hard times always mean a .squeezingdown of shop force and a shortening of thehours of labor. Officers who give theseorders are not prone to excuse verymarked deterioration of the power androlling stock, and this causes master me-chanics and foremen to try and devisemeans for reducing the cost of work, sav-ing time, etc. In a recent letter from Mr. T. E. Clarke,general superintendent of the Minneapolis& St. Louis road, he mentioned this fact,and gave Locomotive Engineeringcredit for doing lots of good in makingthese time and labor saving kinks knownto the railroad world. He called attentionto a machine recently constructed at theirshops, the invention of the foreman, W. Williams, stating that it was savingthem lots of money on boiler work. We have secured photographs of thisdevice that explain its construction and. Used .\.s a Horizontal Drill. made until the required shape is iron formers are made. They have a practice in the hammershop here which is worthy of some reason it is generally consideredright to use steam of comparatively lowpressure for steam hammers. The ham-mers here were started with steam of about100 pounds, and Mr. Gordon did not thinkthey were doing the work they oughtto tuni out; so he increased the steampressure to 140 pounds as an experiment,and found that the work was done so muchquicker that he made that the regularpressure for all the hammers. A. S. Pressed-steel oil cans for locomotives arebeing used on several roads. The longoiler costs one dollar, as against one-thirdof that amount for tin, but they , have only one seam, and it is be-lieved will outwear several tin cans. i i ^ The Smith triple expansion to be making friends everywh
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