. Railway age gazette . Welding Car Bolsters with the Oxy-Acetylene Process amount of material from scrap. It is showing a profit of from$1,500 to $1,800 a week. Track tools of all kinds, includingadzes, spike mauls, clay picks, claw bars, lining bars and tamp-ing bars are straightened and re-dressed. Broken coil springsare heated and drawn out with an air machine and are thenmade into jack bars, lining bars, drift pins and similar parts. Alarge shear is provided for shearing the coupler yoke rivets and. Repairing Car- Bolsters, a Journal Bex andOxy-Acetylene a Coupler with the good parts are
. Railway age gazette . Welding Car Bolsters with the Oxy-Acetylene Process amount of material from scrap. It is showing a profit of from$1,500 to $1,800 a week. Track tools of all kinds, includingadzes, spike mauls, clay picks, claw bars, lining bars and tamp-ing bars are straightened and re-dressed. Broken coil springsare heated and drawn out with an air machine and are thenmade into jack bars, lining bars, drift pins and similar parts. Alarge shear is provided for shearing the coupler yoke rivets and. Repairing Car- Bolsters, a Journal Bex andOxy-Acetylene a Coupler with the good parts are reclaimed. .A shear is provided for cuttingbars and rods to length. A considerable number of brake rodsare straightened and in many cases new ends are welded on. The manufacture of material from scrap relieves the black-smith shops at the different shop plants of much of this instance, round iron is cut into suitable sizes and headedfor bolts and made into pins; bar iron which comes to the plantas scrap is worked up into drawbar shiins, carrier irons and otherlocomotive and car parts. One end of the smith shop is usedfor relining journal brasses. Exceptional results have been ob-tained by welding carbon steel points on picks. These havegiven good service and are said to be better than new tools. SPIKES Hundreds of track spikes are annealed and reclaimed each these are sorted out from the scrap pile they are transferredto a small building which is fitted with a pneumatic ham
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