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In addition to the museum's railroad equipment exhibits, its shops hold a historic collection of industrial machine tools and hand tools. One of these is a sheet-metal shear, which was made by Parker Manufacturing Company, a machine shop in Santa Monica, CA. The company needed a shear, but backlogs in the World War II years meant a two-year ...
Die set (plates). [5] Placement can be inverted depending on the operation, such as use of a knock-out: [6] Die block – the lower (bottom) half of the die set. Machined to conform to the desired shape of the workpiece being formed or cut. Punch plate – the upper (top) half of the die set. Holds and supports the different punches in place.
A tie plate, baseplate or sole plate is a steel plate for centering and reinforcing the attachment point on the rail tracks between a flanged T rail and a railroad tie. The tie plate increases bearing area and holds the rail to correct gauge. It is fastened to wooden ties by means of spikes or bolts through holes in the plate.
A combination square is a multi-purpose measuring and marking tool used in metalworking, woodworking, and stonemasonry. It is composed of a rule and one or more interchangeable heads that can be attached to the rule. [1] [2] Other names for the tool include adjustable square, combo square, and sliding square.
Where a signal consists of a combination of a stop and distant arms a mechanism is included to prevent the distant arm clearing while the stop arm is at ‘danger’. Current British practice mandates that semaphore signals, both upper and lower quadrant types, are inclined at an angle of 45 degrees from horizontal to display an "off" indication.
George Leonidas Leslie (1842 – May/June 1878), who sometimes went by George Howard and George Herbert, was an American bank robber and architect.Known as the "King of Bank Robbers", he was involved in 80% of the bank robberies in the United States from 1869 to 1878.
The AMC Eagle is a compact four-wheel drive passenger vehicle manufactured and marketed in a single generation by American Motors Corporation (AMC) for model years 1980 through 1987 and continued by Chrysler Corporation following its acquisition of AMC in 1987, for the 1988 model year.
In Baltimore, he paired with Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr. to form a formidable double-play combination. Alomar appeared in the playoffs in 1996 and 1997 for the Orioles, hitting a series-winning home run in Game 4 of the 1996 American League Division Series (ALDS), [ 18 ] although the Orioles were defeated in the ALCS both years. [ 16 ]