. Electric railway journal . athe aretwo boring mills, a Niles-Bement-Pond 300-ton wheelpress, which presses in one hour on an average of fourpairs of pony wheels or in one day the wheels and gearsof approximately twenty driver axles. The axle turn-ing lathe is mounted in front of a boring mill. Ponyand other cast-iron wheels are handled at the oppositeend of the shop by means of a Hampden grinder. Thistool grinds from fourteen to twenty pairs of wheels aday. It is fitted with an adjustable bearing, which per-mits it to take journals up to 6^ in. and wheels from18 in. to 36 in. in diameter. Th
. Electric railway journal . athe aretwo boring mills, a Niles-Bement-Pond 300-ton wheelpress, which presses in one hour on an average of fourpairs of pony wheels or in one day the wheels and gearsof approximately twenty driver axles. The axle turn-ing lathe is mounted in front of a boring mill. Ponyand other cast-iron wheels are handled at the oppositeend of the shop by means of a Hampden grinder. Thistool grinds from fourteen to twenty pairs of wheels aday. It is fitted with an adjustable bearing, which per-mits it to take journals up to 6^ in. and wheels from18 in. to 36 in. in diameter. This tool was described inthe Electric Railway Journal for May 25, 1912. Among the tools in other parts of the shop is theAcme bolt-cutting and threading machine, here illus-trated, which has reclaimed thousands of dollars fromthe scrap pile, besides enabling the men to obtainquickly whatever bolts are necessary for their work. The high-speed drill illustrated was furnished byMontgomery & Company, New York. This machine is. x--X\\ , m Third Avenue Truck Shop—Boring Mills and Wheel Press 1078 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLIII, No. 20.
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