. Railway and Locomotive Engineering. e critical speed shall be far from therunning speed, and tlie shaft sliall bestrong enougli to carry it safely pastthe critical speed, yet flexible enoughto allow the center of gravity to comeas close to the center of rotation aspossible at the running speed. G. E. Securing Eccentrics and Working onCabs. Editor: Attached prints show two of our lat-est shop kinks Iiere. The first illus-trates a metliod of preventing eccentricblades from shifting from their properpositions, after they are once exactlyset, by applying cast pieces of babbittmetal in the slotte
. Railway and Locomotive Engineering. e critical speed shall be far from therunning speed, and tlie shaft sliall bestrong enougli to carry it safely pastthe critical speed, yet flexible enoughto allow the center of gravity to comeas close to the center of rotation aspossible at the running speed. G. E. Securing Eccentrics and Working onCabs. Editor: Attached prints show two of our lat-est shop kinks Iiere. The first illus-trates a metliod of preventing eccentricblades from shifting from their properpositions, after they are once exactlyset, by applying cast pieces of babbittmetal in the slotted blade holes on eachside of bolts holding the eccentric andblade together. This method has pre-vented many engine failures whereblade nuts ha\e become loose, and the February, 1912. RAILWAY AXD LOCOMOTIVE EXGIXEERING. 47 babbitt blocks held the blade in itsoriginal position. Further descriptivedetails need not be given, as the printshows the method of procedure with asufficient degree of clearness. The other print shows details of a. ECCENTRIC STRAP AND ROD SHOWINGBAHBITT METAL FILLING SLOTS. very handy painters scaffold that maybe readily attached to the side of a caband running board, and thereby avoidthe usual cumbrous scaffolding risingfrom tiie flooring. It was designed byour foreman painter, IMr. A. Rosen-berg, and has been found very usefulfor all classes of work on the cab, notspeaking of other kinds of work thatmay be proceeded with uninterrupt-edl} undcrneatli. Ch.\s. ,Shop &? A. \V. Ry., Clinton, loiva. Business J. Baumc.^rtxer. An important factor in the restora-tion of confidence in business has beenthe change of attitude of legislativebodies toward the railroads and otherlarge business interests of the country,through a subsidence of the wave ofantagonism so prevalent a few yearsago. While yet too early to see thefull measure of this change, it is clearthat the people at large are commenc-ing to realize the impossibility of
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