Identifier: railwaylocomotiv20newy (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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where we cansee in action this Last Thing Applied butNot the Least Important. In the shopwe see cars either building or being re-paired. The shop room is limited, only together. It is only mechanicallyhomogeneous, because it is so finelyground. Now comes the varnish coats.These are the opposite and are sup-posed to contain a maximum of oil;the absorbent effect of the pigment,which has little, if any, oil in it, is seenwhen the first coat of varnish is ap-plied, or rather, it is seen the next day,when it presents an all-gone-in appear-ance, and only begins to look brightand glossy when it has received an-other coat of itself to hold it up; be-cause this second coat looks better forthe time, the work of oil absorption bythe color is still going on, and the mar-vel is that so long a service is securedwith any varnish, as now prevails. Var-nish would hold its lustre longer andclean up better were it possible to givelonger time between color coats andthus permit of some oil being incorpo-
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HOOK OF HOLLAND Kauri, however, is the resin most used;this comes from New Zealand and be-gan to be exported in quantity after theAustralian gold discoveries. It is esti-mated since then up to 1904, $65,000,000^Irorth have been shipped, and in thatyear (1904) $2,509,085 worth wasslhipped to the United States and theUnited Kingdom. In the writers recol-lection it used to be shipped unsortedin bags as ballast on sailing vessels andsold in London in the sixties at 2j4d.per pound. It now comes all sorted bythe natives and ranges from sixty-tivecents to about five cents per pound. Linseed oil is the expressed juice offlaxseed. It is prepared by boiling. Allthe varieties of varnish are made by thevaried proportions of linseed oil andthe grade or quality of the gums used.Turpentine is used as a dilutant to ren-der the treated gum and oil, fluid EXPRESS OX THE hii.MiOX A.M) SOUTH eight, ten or twelve cars can be accom-modated, and the cars are required tobe out again and in service as soon as

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