. Railway age gazette . lso free to revolve on the ram so thatafter the wheels are pressed on, they can be passed on throughthe machine. The outboard housing is also provided with anair plunger, as shown, to push the wheels over in line with theoutgoing track after they have been forced on, and to also pushthe axle over so that a filler block 7., Fig. 14. may be admitted,thereby lifting the near wheel off the housing when it is desiredto force the other on the axle a little more. With this arrange-ment one. two or four men can work to advantage. One manwill average SO pairs of 33 in. cast iron
. Railway age gazette . lso free to revolve on the ram so thatafter the wheels are pressed on, they can be passed on throughthe machine. The outboard housing is also provided with anair plunger, as shown, to push the wheels over in line with theoutgoing track after they have been forced on, and to also pushthe axle over so that a filler block 7., Fig. 14. may be admitted,thereby lifting the near wheel off the housing when it is desiredto force the other on the axle a little more. With this arrange-ment one. two or four men can work to advantage. One manwill average SO pairs of 33 in. cast iron wheels a day; two men,100 pairs, and four men, 170 pairs. The hydraulic press is pro-vided with a recording gage, whereby a complete record of thepressure used in forcing on each pair of wheels is obtained andthis is kept for future reference. The steel tired wheels are handled outside of the shop in aspecial fuel oil tire heater made by the Mahr Manufacturing INSTALLATION AND MAINTENANCE OFELECTRIC HEADLIGHT EQUIPMENT. Fig. 16—Fuel Oil Heater Which is Placed Outside the Shop forHeating the Tires of Steel-Tired Wheels Company, Minneapolis, Minn. -This heater is shown in I^ig. man handles this entire work with the aid of a jib craneand can replace one steel tire an hour, including the removaland replacing of the retaining rings, at a cost of 27 cents perwheel. The heater will remove an average of 126 worn out 40in. tires in nine hours, and will heat 54 new 40 in. tires in thesame length of time. It is lined with fire brick 4 in. thick,and the body is cast iron /^ in. thick; the covers are all oper-ated by one lever. .After the first tire is heated the machinelights itself from the heat of the bricks. To operate this ma-chine, the wheel is placed in the heater and the burner the tire expands the wheel drops through to the truckbelow. The truck is then pulled out and a new tire heated andplaced on the wheel. A new tire can be heated and slippedover the wheel
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