. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . creditable output for a twenty dollar hack saw. On another occasion he was given the job of turning ashort section of a driver tire to a diameter of 78 in. andthe privilege of doing the work on the wheel lathe in anearby railroad shop was obtained. This would have beenvery well, but the lathe had a swing of but 71 in. Sowithout reporting the fact he rigged an attachment to asmall shaper, at a cost to his customer of two dollars anda half, gave the work a tilting motion and cut the surfaceto a
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . creditable output for a twenty dollar hack saw. On another occasion he was given the job of turning ashort section of a driver tire to a diameter of 78 in. andthe privilege of doing the work on the wheel lathe in anearby railroad shop was obtained. This would have beenvery well, but the lathe had a swing of but 71 in. Sowithout reporting the fact he rigged an attachment to asmall shaper, at a cost to his customer of two dollars anda half, gave the work a tilting motion and cut the surfaceto as true a curvature as could have been done on a lathe. To be sure rocking the work in order to cut a curvedsurface with a straight running tool is an old trick. Butto design and build the rigging and attach it to the toolat a cost of two dollars and a half, involved work that wasboth original and rapid. Once he was uj^on to make a pr^-ii\- lirake test in for every kind of a job that has to ]je done. A conditionthat is a great gain to the industry but a great handicap inthe training of New Landls Pipe Threading and Cutting Maciiin which a constant load was to be held U])on the motor. Hethought the constant attendance upon the tightening wheelwearisome and monotonous and so like the tai)led l)o\ whotied a string to the engine valve stem and thus made itsaction automatic, he put a lever and a .spring on the clamp-ing mechanism of the brake and so adjusted it that thescale beam would remain balanced indefinitely. .Such performances were rc|)eatcd many times and yearafter year throughout a long and useful life have a valueas an example of what can be done in the way of makingbricks with, at the most, very little straw. Of course the man had brains, but he always attributedmuch of his success to his fathers training in the art ofmeeting emergencies, a training that few hoys now getin the modern shop where there is a special tool jjrdvidcfl New Landis Pipe Threading and C
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