The Clayton citizen. [volume] (Clayton, Union County, N.M.) 1906-19??, 1916-12-14

OF lVVU tons, Shapes cold steel ike car
board. A piece of metal fed to it
comes oft as side frame. It can
make 1000 of these in an eight hour
day,
Other mighty machines stamp out
radiator shells, tenders, cowl dashes
and doors.
You take off your hat to the drop
forging machines. Down comes the
hammer and the fiery piece of iron is
beaten into shape. The complete drop
forging of the front axle can be ac-
complished with one heat.
Every kind of part requiring
strength was drop forged, while we
looked on, axles, crank shafts, brake
assembly rods, brake and control rods,
spring shackles, gear blanks and brake
rod seetQrs.
We saw the company's accurate
system of dye making. 1t calls for a
special workman on each detail. One
works on the shaper, another on the
planer and a third on die sinking.
The multiple spindle drill in one op-
GRAFTON drills all the holes in the front
axle. This guarantee that each will
be in right relation to the other.
1t was hard to drag us away from
the automatic turret lathe that sur
faces and finishes fly wheels. 1t works
as though somewhere within its metal
vitals brain was concealed. The
workman has only to put on the rough
fly wheel, adjust the first set of tools,
push the lever, and let the machine do
the rest.
The cast iron is peeled off as readily
as wax. Sometimes four or five OPP
erations are performed at once. When
one set of cuttings is done, the ma
chine stops automatically, and the
next set of tools comes automatically
into place. Twenty operations are
performed in fourteen minutes. 26
pounds of metal are removed from the
wheel. One man can watch three of
these machines.
The vertical cutter of gears on fly
wheels almost matches the turret lathe
in interest.
Moving up and down, the cutter at
the sametime slowly revolves, the fly
wheel turning in the opposite direc-
tion. BY the time a complete revolu-
| tion of the fly wheel has been accom-.
plished, all the gears are cut.
We all fell for the aluminium foun.
dry and for the machines that finish
the aluminium parts,
The multiple spindle drill bores 81
holes in the crank case in one opera.
tion. This is a proof OF the superior
ity Of machine processes, for the holes
must be in the right relation to each
other.
Another machine smooths the sur
faces of the crank cases, finishing sew
en- in nine minutes.
Diamonds, real diamonds, are con
sumedwith apparently reckless indii-
ference in the wet grind room. PLACED
in small tools they are used to true
the emery wheels on which are grount
the bearing surfaces of the cranl
shafts.
They are bought in $4,000 lots.
We looked on while whole forests oi
lumber were being turned into bodie!
in the work department. This lumber
comes in by carloads. AS 214 feet O.
wood ish required on a small touring
car, we could readily see why so mucl
was required.
You make this round and you car
understand this company's immens,
consumption of material-1S,00 ,00t
pounds of solder annually, 2,500,00I
pounds of tin and lead for smoldering
100000 pounds of brass and copper
100000 feet of steel tubing ant
125,000 tons of steel.
But what impressed me more thar
all was the department in which ma
terials are tested. They have to know
a thingi right before it goes into
Willys-Overland car. Tha's how the,
safeguard the public.
Tests in the physical and chemica
laboratories are made in two ways
Completed steel parts are subjected +
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