. Railway age gazette . e adjustable holder for the glass cutter, as in-dicated in the drawing. The cutter arm is flattened and grad-uated to show the radius to which the glass is to be cut. Arubber mat is used on top of the table to keep the glass fromslipping, and the table is rotated by hand when the glass isbeing cut. Steel cutting wheels were tried, but they do not givethe same satisfaction as do the diamond cutters, there being toogreat a loss of glass due to breakage. The diamond glasscutter if given proper care gives much more satisfaction. Bythe use of this machine it is possible to u
. Railway age gazette . e adjustable holder for the glass cutter, as in-dicated in the drawing. The cutter arm is flattened and grad-uated to show the radius to which the glass is to be cut. Arubber mat is used on top of the table to keep the glass fromslipping, and the table is rotated by hand when the glass isbeing cut. Steel cutting wheels were tried, but they do not givethe same satisfaction as do the diamond cutters, there being toogreat a loss of glass due to breakage. The diamond glasscutter if given proper care gives much more satisfaction. Bythe use of this machine it is possible to use up the greater partof the scrap glass which ordinarily accumulates in the paintshop, by cutting it into small diameters. BY A. R. DAVISTool Foreman, Central of Georgia, Macon. Ga. In manufacturing open end wrenches for use in a loco-motive repair shop, in lots of 200 or less to a size, elaboratejigs are not justified for handling the work. A good practice,after drop forging and trimming the wrenches, is to grind them. \. ,sf Fig. 1—Jig for Making Open End Wrenches on the sides of the jaws on a double disc grinder, bringing themto a uniform thickness. They are then placed in the jig shownin Fig. 1 and milled out with inserted blade cutters to the nut sizeplus 1/32 in. This jig will take ^ in., % in., 1 in. and IVs ends by adjusting the plates A, B and C to suit the •d for
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