Railway and locomotive engineering - a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock (1910) (14757155644)

Identifier: railwaylocomotiv23newy (find matches)
Title: Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock
Year: 1901 (1900s)
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Subjects: Railroads Locomotives
Publisher: New York : A. Sinclair Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation



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ing shops,I find the same case in each, that is, thebench vises are always in poor repair. I do not think anything annoys a fittermore than when in a hurry to cut a pieceof iron or file a bolt, as have to try twoor three vises before he finds one capableof holding the job firm enough to workon it. As a rule there is one-third backlash in screw, and the outer jaw has inmany cases, to be pulled out by hand,owing to collar being loose or lost. In one large erecting shop in which Iworked once, out of two hundred andfifty odd vises, twenty-four were only infirst-class repair, one hundred and twelvewere fair, and the rest were mostly scrap,taking up good bench room. All thesecould have been kept in decent repair andwould have paid for that expense manytimes over. Because, as a rule, when afitter tries to do a job in a vise and findsit wont hold, he waits till the first goodvise is vacant, may be a quarter of anhour or 10 minutes, or he goes down thesliop to a screwing machine, or shears, or
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I.NE WITH GOOD RECORD OX THE BIG FOUR. failures of any kind. It was run by En-gineers A. N. Jenkinson and ArthurSwisher and was kept in excellent con-dition through their careful attention, inparticular watching the left main wedge.During this time the left main wedge waslined down four times, while the rightwas lined twice and so prevented the en-gine from pounding on her boxes. This mileage certainly makes a goodshowing for the Bellefontaine shop and isan example of the work turned out. This,I think, under the conditions statedabove, is the worlds record. I am en-closing a photograph of the engine. C. H. VOGES,Genl. Foreman. Bellefontaine, Ohio. an emery wheel, as the case may be, andloses more time walking there and backthan would have done the job three times. It is useless to expect a fitter to lookafter his vise in an erecting shop now-a-days as he never gets time to start re-setting jaws, etc. I think each large erect-ing shop should have a man detailed fornothing else, but to