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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt:...applying steel cabs and running boards; laying out and fitting up any sheet iron or sheet steel work made of 16 gauge or heavier, including fronts and doors; grate and grate rigging, ash pans, front and netting and diaphragm work; engine tender steel underframe and steel tender truck frames, except where other machanics perform this work; removing and applying all stay bolts, radials, flexible caps, sleeves, crown bolts, stay rods and braces in boilers, tanks and drums, applying and removing arch pipes; operating punches and shears for shaping and forming, pneumatic stay bolt breakers, air rams and hammers; bull, jam, and yoke riveters; boiler makers' work in connection with the building and repairing of steam shovels, derricks, booms, housings, circles and coal buggies; eye beam, channel iron, angle iron and tee iron work; all drilling, cutting and tapping, and operating rolls in connection with boilern1akers' work; oxyacetylene, thermit and electric welding, on work generally recognized as boiler maker's work; and all other work generally recognized as boiler makers' work. 2--A. Boiler maker appre'nticea.---Include regular and helper apprentices in connection with the above. 2-B. Boiler maker helpera.--Emp1oyees assigned to help boiler makers and their apprentices. Operators of drill presses and bolt cutters in the boiler shop, punch and shear operators (cutting only bar stock and scrap). Sac. 3. Blacksmitha.--Employees skilled in welding, forging, shaping, and bending of metal; tool dressing and tempering; spring making, tempering, and repairing; potashing, case and bichloride hardening; flue welding under blacksmith foreman; operating furnaces, bulldozers, forging machines, drop-forging machines, bolt machines, and...