. Railway mechanical engineer . schedule time. After the foreman hasstudied awhile, he will try to answer this correspondence insuch manner as not to reflect on his organization, or his abil-ity to handle a roundhouse. The best way to answer such de-lays is not to have them; by having good organization, which THE CAMERA IN A RAILROAD SHOP BY C. L. DICKERTAssistant Master Mechanic, Central of Georgia, Macon, Ga. It is often necessary to make sketches and blue printsshowing defective material, weak parts, broken parts, and agreat many other things around a shop. It is very difficultin a good man
. Railway mechanical engineer . schedule time. After the foreman hasstudied awhile, he will try to answer this correspondence insuch manner as not to reflect on his organization, or his abil-ity to handle a roundhouse. The best way to answer such de-lays is not to have them; by having good organization, which THE CAMERA IN A RAILROAD SHOP BY C. L. DICKERTAssistant Master Mechanic, Central of Georgia, Macon, Ga. It is often necessary to make sketches and blue printsshowing defective material, weak parts, broken parts, and agreat many other things around a shop. It is very difficultin a good many cases to show up on a drawing the exactconditions and in some cases a lot of time is consumed inmaking drawings. We have overcome a lot of these troublesby the use of a camera. A photograph is taken of brokenand defective parts, which shows up in detail the exact con-ditions in such a way that it cannot be disputed. The camera is not expensive and does not require anyskill to handle it. We do our own developing and Some Examples of the Use of the Camera in the Central of Georgia Shops at Macon jequires co-operation. To get this, the foreman must be ab-solutely fair and square with all his men and those withwhom he comes in contact. Composition or Coal Ash.—Coal ash contains silica,alumina, iron pyrites and other mineral matter, dependingupon the chemical composition and physical cause the ash to fuse more or less easily. The tem-perature at which firebrick will melt is sometimes influ-enced by the composition of the ash. For instance, a cer-tain ash might melt at 2,600 deg. F. and a certain fire-brick at 2,800 deg. F., but together in a furnace both mightimelt at 2,500 deg. F.—Power. The accompanying photographs show some of the workdone with the camera. Nos. 1 and 6 show broken drivingaxles; No. 2 shows a comparison between two locomotivepilots, one made with round iron ribs, the other with ribsmade from scrap tubes; No. 3 shows a broken piston
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