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Model engine construction, with practical instructions to artificers and amateurs (1894)

Alexander, John Henry. [from old catalog] · London, New York, Whittaker · leaf 291

An illustration from Model engine construction, with practical instructions to artificers and amateurs, 1894, leaf 291 — D D <Q □ >fc Fig. 56.—Railway. A, wooden sleeper ; B, rail; C, chair with wooden wedge ;D, fish-plate. hammered, without fear of it breaking, as an ordinarycast-iron rail would do. The rails, after beingstraightened by hammering on a flat surface, should … Fig. 57. be filed over on the head, heel, and sides, thenpolished upon the upper and inner surfaces, byrubbing on the grindstone, and finished with coarse CARRIAGES AND RAILWAYS. 269 and fine emery paper and oil, then they willbecome as smooth as glass, and reduce friction toa mimimum, when the…

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