(Q) Railroad Work.—Reclaiming bolsters, couplings, slotting forged engine rods, building metal cars, repairing fire-boxes, patching and replacing side sheets, flue welding, building up frogs and crossings, cutting off rails, mud rings, welding cracked cylinders, cross-heads, steam-chests, building up worn spots on wheels, rims and pins, welding spokes and locomotive frames, etc.
(Courtesy of the Oxweld Acetylene Co.)
Fig. 11.—Office Chair. Welded at all Joints.
(R) Rolling Mills.—Fabricating “open-hearth,” water jacket doors, cutting up “lost heats,” scrap plates and bar stock billets. General repairs of furnace equipment, hot beds, rolls, gears, engines, plates, etc.
(S) Sheet Metal.—Manufacture of tubing, oil-storage barrels, metallic furniture, range boilers, etc.
(T) Shipyards.—Cutting off plates and irregular shapes of steel, channels, special sections. Building up of worn shocks, building and patching hulls, stringers and the reclamation of propellers, posts and broken parts of machinery, etc.
(U) Structural Steel.—Cutting holes for rivets, gussets and splice plates, and wrecking. Welding up misdrilled holes and machinist’s errors. Cutting channels, I beams, and other shapes for coping, splicing and fitting rails, welding reinforcing rods for concrete work of any desired length and structural parts where bolting and riveting is difficult or impossible.
(Courtesy of the British Oxygen Co.)