Identifier: streetrailwayrev12amer (find matches)
Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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iy-\ 1 hi de> ii e at thi ewarl hop 1 bi■ i ■ 1 •■■!■ moving pi (uirei It hand adjt • til and the scrapei come in contact with the wire .11 a greatei num Iht of points than in the I It troll mat hint in im; VRMATURES. ■ 1 al 111 m urn 1 1 found of great 1 istanci in moving armatures from placi to plat 1 iboul tl ng .1 rmatun . from under cars the ma iti 1 mi 1 hanii hai,in the pit \ ri gu1 it ion Barnit lifting jack, made by the I >u fT Manufacture Pittburg, fn, was flttt I it Ith an ■ I iti d racl bat to ■ I 1 1 228 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. IVol. XII, No. 4 range of action. Ihe jack i- mounted upon an iron pedestal asshown in one of the illustrations, and this pedestal I- l».iti-«t to theplatform of a low truiThe upper end ol 111»- reck bai carries a cradle to receive the armaomprising a frame supporting tw eel pipi upon which the armature 1 ■ DIPPING FIELD COILS ing field coils is ingenious and effectivi andwill be understood frot lie engravings, \ shoi
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arran<;emf.xt for dipi-inc, field coils. track is suspended from the ceiling and on this are placeda number of small trolleys having hooks at their lower ends. Pass-ing up over the top of the track runs a rope one end of which windsupon a spindle, tin- other end carrying a large hook Die procedurei- to hang the coil to be dipped upon this large hook. Then bylindli and .rank the field coil 1- lowered into thetank of insulating compound. Winn sufficiently covered with thecompound tin fitild d and transferred to one of the trolley hooks, where it is allowed t.. hang and air dry for a short time. A!mi trough placed under the row of coils catches all excess i in-sulation tliat may drip from the fields and leads it back into thetank. PRICES PAID FOF PIEI E WORK \ I REPAIR SHOPS OF\()K I II JERSEY STREI Et \II.\Y VY CO JTRI ILLERS ral overhauling including replacing cylinder-wipers, spring-vers and handles, blowing and inspection of controllers, py twitches, fuse boxes and cut out l»\. $

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