FLAME CUTTER SHOWS ITS FORM

British Rail Engineering Ltd. in Swindon uses flame cutting extensively for profiling workpieces ranging downwards in size from main frames of shunting locomotives. An unusual use for the flame cutter is profiling blanks from which are made bearing end caps for special-purpose machines the company builds for its own needs. The end caps are needed in small quantities -- no more than a dozen at one time -- and flame cutting provides an economic alternative to forging, casting or machining from the solid. They are usually cut from a mild steel billet using just one of the machine's cutting nozzles.

• Corporate Authors:

  Machinery Publishing Company Limited

  New England House, New England Street
  Brighton 1,   England 
• Authors:
  • Kellock, B
• Publication Date: 1980-1

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 21
• Serial:
  • Machinery and Production Engineering
  • Volume: 136
  • Issue Number: 3497

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Fabrication; Flame cutting; Machine tools; Maintenance; Rolling stock; Technology
• Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
• Old TRIS Terms: Oxygen cutting machines
• Subject Areas: Maintenance and Preservation; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00319675
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 29 1980 12:00AM