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CONSULTING DEPARTMENT-(Concluded)

White Metal Alloys

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Question: Please give me the composition of the metal used for lining the cross-head slides, rod-brasses, etc.-J. E. B.

Answers: An alloy composed of the following is commonly used for lining the cross-head slides:

Lead, 65 parts; antimony, 25 parts; copper, 10 parts. The above is also used for rodbrasses and axle bearings. Some object to white metal containing lead or zinc. It has been found, however, that lead and zinc have properties of great use in these alloys.

In the German Navy, the following alloy is used:

Tin, 85 parts; antimony, 71⁄2 parts; copper, 71⁄2 parts.

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Oil Filters

Question: With sponges, hay, and burlap screens placed in filter, the cylinder oil still deposits on the crowns of boilers. Kindly publish in THE TECHNICAL WORLD, a remedy for same.-W. C. E.

Answer: With the somewhat limited information which you have given, it is hardly possible to give a remedy for the trouble you mention. We do not know whether you are using a standard filter of some manufacturer, or whether it is a built-up filter of your own make. In any case, the only suggestion we could offer at the present is that you should renew the hay, burlap, and other substances used, whenever they become saturated with the oil. We think that in the present instance, your trouble may be due to using saturated screens.

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Removing Glaze from Emery Wheels

Question: Will you please tell me how the glazing on emery wheels can be prevented?H. E. P.

Answer: If the wheel is not altogether too hard, it can sometimes be remedied by reducing the face of the wheel to about 1 inch, or by reducing the speed, or by both. Emery wheels should be turned off so that they will run true before using. A wheel that glazes immediately after it has been turned off, can sometimes be corrected by loosening the nut, and allowing the wheel to assume a slightly different position, when it is again tightened.

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This logic may be sound, although usually a man's estimate of what his work is worth is not very accurate; but it is about as dangerous a mental attitude as a wage-earner well can take.

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DO YOUR BEST-(Continued)

If a man is not worth more than he is getting, it stands to reason that he will never get more. As long as he is earning his present salary, his employers have no object in paying him one which he doesn't earn. When a man who owns a business raises a salary, he does it because he finds it profitable to himself to do so. There is very little sentiment concerned in the transaction. The employer doesn't pay a lazy man any more money in the hope to make him industrious. That hope would never be realized. He does not advance the salary of a man in the expectation that the man will be worth more to the concern. The employer knows that an expectation of that kind would be idiotic. When salaries are raised, they are raised to meet the growing value of men who are earning more than they get.

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