. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . Tire Flange Gauge. Some of the cheapest and simplestdevices in a shop frequently prove tobe exceptionally valuable. I presentherewith a tire flange gauge whichwas originally made in our shops andwhich I have never known to be in use tice leaving a small witness mark onthe thinnest flange as evidence to showthat only the necesary reduction indiameter had been made. This is anexcellent practice and removes alldoubt. When preparing to turn a set of tiresthe first step is to find the smallestwhee
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . Tire Flange Gauge. Some of the cheapest and simplestdevices in a shop frequently prove tobe exceptionally valuable. I presentherewith a tire flange gauge whichwas originally made in our shops andwhich I have never known to be in use tice leaving a small witness mark onthe thinnest flange as evidence to showthat only the necesary reduction indiameter had been made. This is anexcellent practice and removes alldoubt. When preparing to turn a set of tiresthe first step is to find the smallestwheel, and also to find the wheel withthe sharpest flange, as between thesetwo we are to ascertain the properdiameter for the entire set. Reducingthe diameter of the smallest wheel un-til the flange is full, may not rectifythe wheel with a sharp flange. In thiscase our finished diameter must betaken from the wheel with the sharpflange, and by use of the gauge shownwe may accurately determine theamount to be removed and so avoidthe common practice of guessing at A is held in one hand over tire. TIKE KL.\NGE G.^IGE elsewhere. This gauge has a three-fold value—first, it gives the properheight to flange; second, it gives thecorrect distance from back of tire tothe throat of flange and an exact out-line of flange on the tread side of thewheel, and third, by the use of thisgauge one may readily tell before plac-ing the wheel in the lathe just howmuch stock must be removed fromtread of wheel to produce a full flange,and it is the last feature that I desireto call attention to. When more stockis removed than is necessary to makea full flange, it is valuable materialwasted, and such a proceeding is sureto provoke serious comment on thepart of the master mechanic. Whenone-eighth of an inch more than neces-sary is removed from a set of wheels,it means from three to four monthsgood wear lost. Some railroads prac- as shown. In the other hand a scaleis held keeping it as nearlj parall
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