. The street railway review . ver and bend the track out of shape before the jointsare set. There are not many roads that can afford tokeep on hand a welding machine for mending brokenjoints and doing odd jobs around a system, but a cupolalarge enough to do such work can be supplied at a costof less than $1,000, so that there need be no angle barjoints on an entire road. No special skill is required onthe part of the men employed except the man who runsthe cupola. Electric welding, especially of steel, is asis well known, a process in which the skill and experi-ence of the operators plays a vi
. The street railway review . ver and bend the track out of shape before the jointsare set. There are not many roads that can afford tokeep on hand a welding machine for mending brokenjoints and doing odd jobs around a system, but a cupolalarge enough to do such work can be supplied at a costof less than $1,000, so that there need be no angle barjoints on an entire road. No special skill is required onthe part of the men employed except the man who runsthe cupola. Electric welding, especially of steel, is asis well known, a process in which the skill and experi-ence of the operators plays a vitally important facility with which broken and defective joints arerepaired by the cast-welding process is an importantpoint. Defective joints will appear with both question is how best to handle them. With electricwelding it is necessary to saw out the joint (\i the breakis such that it can not be repaired by re-welding) andinsert a new section of rail which requires two joints .t_ _ ■-, ,; jJiU^ri.,... \S JOINTS FINISHEI>. Voi ^^jQjd^V^^AJMwfu^^
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