. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ighteen months they ha*ebeen using copper for side and doorsheets of fireboxes in some of their bad-water districts. Results, so far, have beengood. f;OOI) BOILER WORK. Especial care is taken in boiler stays are used exclusively. Thesheets are as large as can be used, and allseams avoided where possible. A singlesheet forms the barrel, and a single sheet straps, and may be set to vary the size ofopening of dies. In swaging down flues for copper fer-rules, the dies are adjusted just right, ach
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ighteen months they ha*ebeen using copper for side and doorsheets of fireboxes in some of their bad-water districts. Results, so far, have beengood. f;OOI) BOILER WORK. Especial care is taken in boiler stays are used exclusively. Thesheets are as large as can be used, and allseams avoided where possible. A singlesheet forms the barrel, and a single sheet straps, and may be set to vary the size ofopening of dies. In swaging down flues for copper fer-rules, the dies are adjusted just right, achalk mark made over the die used, andthe swaging done as fast as the flues canbe handled by two men, there being a fireeach side of the machine; There are sixdififerent openings in the die block, cover-ing all sizes of flues and arch pipe used onthe road. On the right hand upright ofthe machine is shown a small air hose,used to clean the scale off the work. AND ELEVATORS throughout the shop are handled by air,and almost every tool has its hoist everready to do the heavy FORTY-INCH AIR PUNCH AND SHEAR. forms the shell around the firebox are no side seams. Crown barsare used exclusively. Boilers are alllagged with magnesia blocks fitted tothem exactly, even the front end iscovered and jacketed. A POWER FLUE-SWAGING MACHINE. In a little room ofT the boiler shop theydo the flue work—and there is lots of have recently put into use here aswaging machine that is a good one andalmost as simple as the taper hole in apiece of iron, that is yet used almost uni-versally to pound flues into, and by cour-tesy called a swager. Our picture shows the machine. Itsdies are made of heavy plate, perhaps J4of an inch thick, the lower one fast inthe frame and the upper one having amovement vertically of about half an inch,imparted by the eccentrics on the eccentric rods are adjustable in the FINISHING THE INSIDE OF WROUGHTPIPE FOR .AIR CYLINDERS. Like mo
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