. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ranted or otherwise. Under the second sub-head—Mainte-nance and Proper Distribution i)i SmallTools—among other things there is thismay be said: Uidess the plant is ab-normally large, we sec no reason whysmall tools other than the rough tools,which are tlic natural equipment of the nyrn for There is certainly noeconomy in permitting a machinist totake an air tool from the tool room orother place of storage, connect it up andget it in shape to use, only to find at thelast moment that th
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ranted or otherwise. Under the second sub-head—Mainte-nance and Proper Distribution i)i SmallTools—among other things there is thismay be said: Uidess the plant is ab-normally large, we sec no reason whysmall tools other than the rough tools,which are tlic natural equipment of the nyrn for There is certainly noeconomy in permitting a machinist totake an air tool from the tool room orother place of storage, connect it up andget it in shape to use, only to find at thelast moment that the anticipated resultis not to be obtained with that particularmachine. It would, in our judgment, bemuch better practice to have a particularplace to which these tools be returned atstated intervals for inspection, lubricationand repair. We do not think that an airtool should be kept in service longer thanseven days without this inspection, be-lieving that in this case, as well as innearly all others, a stitch in time savesthe proverbial nine. We realize thatpneumatic tools have now become the. TRA( K TANKS ON THE N. Y. & L. B, Copyright, 18^4, steel manipulator. The machine tool,constructed a dozen or less years since,with some necessary changes—increasedbelt widths and lap on cones, slightly en-larged bearings and heavier tool rests—will produce nearly as satisfactory resultsas some of our modern machines; pos-sibly there are some machines that couldbe specialized to such an extent that theywould handle work for which they werenot originally designed, equally as w-ellif not better than a tool made for thatparticular class of work. If upon in-vestigation we find this to be true, thenthe purchase of a new tool is a waste. NEAR LONG BRANCH, N. J. ENGINE SCOOriNG UP WATER. By F. II. B!au:eU, .V. Y. mechanic, should not be kept in a toolroom, repaired therein and checked there-from. A tool which is not always inusable condition is worthless and is avery expensive thing. Th
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