. Electric railway journal . en the pieces are immersed in baking varnishuntil all air has left the interstices in the material, asindicated by a complete stoppage of the rising stream ofbubbles from the piece in the dipping vat. After satu-ration the pieces are drained for half an hour, and thenthey are again placed in the oven and baked at thecorrect temperature for seventy-two hours, the tempera-ture being determined by a pyrometer. On the arma-tures for the locomotives of the latest type, in whichthere are two motors geared to each driver, there is nocanvas hood at the ends of the armature
. Electric railway journal . en the pieces are immersed in baking varnishuntil all air has left the interstices in the material, asindicated by a complete stoppage of the rising stream ofbubbles from the piece in the dipping vat. After satu-ration the pieces are drained for half an hour, and thenthey are again placed in the oven and baked at thecorrect temperature for seventy-two hours, the tempera-ture being determined by a pyrometer. On the arma-tures for the locomotives of the latest type, in whichthere are two motors geared to each driver, there is nocanvas hood at the ends of the armature, and afterthe clips are on the coils and soldered in place the wholeii sealed up with Bakelite cement and baked for seventy-two hours at about 100 deg. C. The front or west end of the light-machine-tool bay isoccupied by the offices and quarters for the employeesin the inspection shed. Next to this comes a space usedfor storage battery charging and testing, and next tothis, approximately in the center of the shop longitudi-. New Haven Shops—West End of Machine Shop served by a track that extends for about half the lengthof the shop and there are no machine tools in this end ofthe bay. The list of tools installed and the manner inwhich they are distributed over the east end of the shopis in accordance with the arrangement shown on thetwo accompanying line cuts. One of the features in the tool equipment will befound in the large baking oven at the extreme east end nally, are the tool room and general shop foremansoffice. One of the interesting features of this section ofthe shop is a completely equipped emergency hospitalwith a cot, stretcher and small operating table in addi-tion to a remarkably complete outfit for first aid to theinjured. In the toolroom a novel checking system is employed,the men being charged with tools by numbered checks, March 21, ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 627 which are kept in the tool room and not by the man, however, has a number, with
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