. American engineer . Fig, 2—Rack for Holding Painters Dust Bruslies. too much of his time to it. The rack is a shelf supported onbrackets and placed conveniently near the stockmans desk, withholes bored for the number of brushes required, each work-mans check number being stamped on the duster and rack dav these dusters are returned to this rack, where the stock- 586 AMERICAN ENGINEER. Vol. 86. No. 11. man can see at a glance if any are missing. The month previousto the introduction of this rack over a dozen dusters were lost;since then we have had no trouble of this kind. STENCIL
. American engineer . Fig, 2—Rack for Holding Painters Dust Bruslies. too much of his time to it. The rack is a shelf supported onbrackets and placed conveniently near the stockmans desk, withholes bored for the number of brushes required, each work-mans check number being stamped on the duster and rack dav these dusters are returned to this rack, where the stock- 586 AMERICAN ENGINEER. Vol. 86. No. 11. man can see at a glance if any are missing. The month previousto the introduction of this rack over a dozen dusters were lost;since then we have had no trouble of this kind. STENCIL \SH1NG R.\CK. To clean and care for railway car stencils expeditiously andeconomically became an important matter when piecework wasintroduced. The rack which is shown in Fig. 3 aids us greatlyin this work. It is 5 ft. high with a trough and shelf below,the entire face of which is covered with sheet zinc. The top. W-te--H Fig. 3—Rack for Washing Stencils. slopes to the rear, and enables a liberal use of benzine in cleaning,which is caught in the trough and runs into the pail at theend of the rack, from which it can be used again. By the useof the faucet the benzine can be retained in the trough until thework is completed, if so desired. C0.\CH DOOR RACK. Railway coach doors receive more abuse in service than anyother part of the interior fittings. Therefore they require greatervarnish protection. We find that this can be attained most effec-tually when the doors, after being varnished, can be placed flat-
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