. Electric railway review . of ti ■ apparatus la taken from the • i tn ,i I5>kw. rotarj iverter mounted on thS car n- into alternatln ible for , mi lecti i. «. v u mounted on the iie-ii end ,,( tin i ;ir It takei the current lor lis prin ..i lie rotarj convertei andliver current to the pop or from t) I to 1 am pi led from th, ,,i the tl • ■■ Hug with bondln u hi, i lj Joined so in it «in n .i i i i to to Hi. mil II |h held III mlv iii plan * ml ■ 118 ELECTRIC RAILWAY REVIEW Vol. XVII, No. i. being raised by the flow of heavy current After clampingthe bond, either on the li« ad
. Electric railway review . of ti ■ apparatus la taken from the • i tn ,i I5>kw. rotarj iverter mounted on thS car n- into alternatln ible for , mi lecti i. «. v u mounted on the iie-ii end ,,( tin i ;ir It takei the current lor lis prin ..i lie rotarj convertei andliver current to the pop or from t) I to 1 am pi led from th, ,,i the tl • ■■ Hug with bondln u hi, i lj Joined so in it «in n .i i i i to to Hi. mil II |h held III mlv iii plan * ml ■ 118 ELECTRIC RAILWAY REVIEW Vol. XVII, No. i. being raised by the flow of heavy current After clampingthe bond, either on the li« ad or the web of the rail, the cur-rent is fed to the transformer and being regulated by resist-in series with the primary a proper degree of heat isobtained to raise the temperature of the copper bond andthe brass cap with which it is provided to such a point thatthe copper ribbons will unite with the steel of the rail, asin the more usual forms of brazing. It has been found that bonds placed in this way are so. Copper-Welded Rail Bonds—Clay Molds in Position for CastWelding. firmly attached to the rail that it is impossible to removethem except by labcrious chipping and then one must muti-late the rail or the bond before they will separate. It is interesting to note the records of low cost that havebeen made in Cleveland under varying conditions of weather,labor and schedule of cars on tracks being bonded. With the Railway Employes. Car No. 1 operated by employes of the Cleveland Elec-tric Railway on December 17, 1906. between 12:30 p. m. and3:30 p. m. in freezing weather with regular 2M>-minute ser-vice operated over the track bonded, completed placing 28No. 0000 bonds (14 joints) which were electrically brazed tothe ball of the rail. The street in which this track is laid ispaved with block-stone. The bonding gang comprised threemen who opened and closed the pavement and cleaned therail ready for the bonds and three men who operated thebonding car. It was n
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