. Canadian forest industries 1886-1888. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Shafting A firm which makes a speciality of the erect- ion of shaftimr, states that its experience leaches that the loss of power due to improper conditions in the line shafting amounts to 50 per cent of the engine power employed, and that the defects most commonly found are as follows:— Shafting too light for the duty, crooked shafting, hangers too far apart, hanger bearings too short, pulleys too heavy and not properly balanced, hangers which are not adjustable
. Canadian forest industries 1886-1888. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Shafting A firm which makes a speciality of the erect- ion of shaftimr, states that its experience leaches that the loss of power due to improper conditions in the line shafting amounts to 50 per cent of the engine power employed, and that the defects most commonly found are as follows:— Shafting too light for the duty, crooked shafting, hangers too far apart, hanger bearings too short, pulleys too heavy and not properly balanced, hangers which are not adjustable and not self-adjusting and sometimes filled with spurious Babbitt metal, and improper proportion between two pulleys connected by the same Cheese Box and Basket Stuff Machine Send for New Illustrated Circulars. Eastern Office 164 St. James Street. Montreal. Waterous Engine Worts Co., Brantford and Winnipeg Southwestern Lumber Pool In April last the railroads centreing in Chicago formed a pool on lumber, the provisions of which shut out the Kansas City markets and left the Nebraska markets open for competition. The arrangement was not so satisfactory to the Chicago road as was expected, for the North- western dealers floated their logs down the Miatuwippi to various points, where they were cut into lumber, and from these places the Burlington and Rock Island carried the lumber to market. It it estimated that Chicago lost 20 per cent of ita Missouri lumber business by this rTangeoient — LvmJitr Tro/U Journal, The Clyde Shipbuilding: Trade. During the past month 13,480 tons of new shipping was launched from the Clyde ship- yards, compared with about the same quantity in November 1884, and 43,700 tons in the same month of 1883. The aggregate tonnage placed in the water in the course of the eleven months has been 171,084, being 91,838 tons below that of 1883, and no less than 198,600 tons short of the tonnage launched in the corresponding period of 1883. It is gratifying
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