. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . a ■- r 1 iiiiiiiiiiniii :;? iiiii; OLD AND NEW DEVICES USED IN MODERNIZING AN .-VNCIENT SHOP. take any desperate chances. I went backto the shop, secured two pieces 54xi^4x12 ins. long and offset them as in Fig. i—five ^ in. washers, one ^ x 2 in. boltand nut, and three Ji in. rivets from thetinsmith constitutea the outfit, and com-pleted the tool as in Fig. 2. In 15 min-utes tima I had the wheel nicely had forgotten this incident when, day, a machinist


. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . a ■- r 1 iiiiiiiiiiniii :;? iiiii; OLD AND NEW DEVICES USED IN MODERNIZING AN .-VNCIENT SHOP. take any desperate chances. I went backto the shop, secured two pieces 54xi^4x12 ins. long and offset them as in Fig. i—five ^ in. washers, one ^ x 2 in. boltand nut, and three Ji in. rivets from thetinsmith constitutea the outfit, and com-pleted the tool as in Fig. 2. In 15 min-utes tima I had the wheel nicely had forgotten this incident when, day, a machinist came in and want-ed to see the tool I had made for dress-ing the emery wheel, and after he wentout I had calls all afternoon for the samepurpose, and this feat alone caused quitea sensation, and the ancient one that saton a pine stump and watched the firstbrick laid never recognized me afterthat, because I knocked his cherishedcarbide out of time. By using three steel the moving side, and I told him so, andexplained that the bead would catch thehot iron and tear off that side or wouldpull the bolt with it and tear off theother side, but he could not


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