Identifier: electricrailway341909newy (find matches)
Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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kbuilding and has a complete equipment, including a systemof overhead trolley hoists for handling electrical repair work.The company does all its own motor repairing and rewindsand manufactures its armature and field coils. Armaturecoils are wound on four Ford-Oliver winding stands andfield coils on either of two American General EngineeringCompanys field coil stands or one that is homemade. Coilsare insulated by submersion in an 18-in. x 24-in. tank filledwith insulating compound. This tank has a strong cover so thatwhen the coils are placed therein the shop air pressure of 80lb. per square inch may be applied to the surface of the liquid,thus serving to impregnate the coils thoroughly. Field coilsare baked before and after the application of the insulatingcompound in a bake oven built of brick standing on the shopfloor. This oven is large enough to allow the workmen towalk inside and give the coils close attention. Heat is sup-plied by car heaters mounted below an iron checker-plate
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October 2, 1909.) ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. 505 floor and vent pipes are provided to carry off waste gases.A temperature of 175 deg. is maintained within the bakeoven. The supply of compound for dipping coils is kept in atank enclosed in a house built of transite board and angleirons. This house is located outside of the electrical shops.Additional equipment in the electrical shop includes two goodlathes on which the commutator and bearing work is done,an American General Engineering Companys banding ma-chine, and a coil taping machine. STOREKEEPING DEPARTMENT The five car houses and shops located throughout the cityof Denver together with the power houses and track construc-tion work are all supplied with stores from a central stock-room and yard located at the Broadway shops. The methodof distributing stock is as follows: On Monday of each week

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