. The street railway review . , as shownin Fig. 4. is both a soldering furnace for tinning and a babbitting;furnace for babbitting all motor journals. In the babbitting of motor journiils. we have tried to arrangeinir mandrels and l)abliitting devices so as to leave as little vrorkas possible to be done on them after the boxes have been re-liabbitteil. Fig. .i will give .vou an idea of the devices used forbabbitting journals. Tbe idea is probably old and in geuei:il piiiriiig. These machines occupy a space 24 by 98 feet on theiiortli side of the building, and include the following: Mortiser,on
. The street railway review . , as shownin Fig. 4. is both a soldering furnace for tinning and a babbitting;furnace for babbitting all motor journals. In the babbitting of motor journiils. we have tried to arrangeinir mandrels and l)abliitting devices so as to leave as little vrorkas possible to be done on them after the boxes have been re-liabbitteil. Fig. .i will give .vou an idea of the devices used forbabbitting journals. Tbe idea is probably old and in geuei:il piiiriiig. These machines occupy a space 24 by 98 feet on theiiortli side of the building, and include the following: Mortiser,one large lUt-oCf saw, rip saw, band saw. tenoner, jointer, shaper,sliclver, turning lathe, router and planer. All sliafts and couiiter-sliafts arc in the basement underneaththe carpenter shop, and all belts come up from below directly tothe machines which they drive, thus doing away with the incon-veniencc of liaving belting in the way when liaudling are driven by two 25-h. p. motors, one-half of the. FIG. 8—27-KT. ■ N\ i;i; 1 iltLE (WR. use. and there are undoubtedly better arrangements for accom-plishing this work. One of the features in making repairs on double truck cars Isthe use of the transfer table, which, you can readily see. savesa large amount of work by being able to take the truck out side-ways, in which case we have to jtick tlie body only high enoughto clear the truck, and it certainly saves a great deal of labor,as It is only necessary to raise tlie end of the body from whichyou are going to take the truck, six inches. Our carpenter department is Tii by ys ft., liaving five tracksrunning its entire length. Under one of these tracks is a pit4 ft. deep for the examination and repairing of cars. At oneside of the pit Is an entrance to a large store room, where allparts are put away while the car is being repaired. By having
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