The Inspector and the Troubleman (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ...wiring of nearly all the principal companies in this part of the country. You can take it and study them, but first we will look them over together. "For fear the diagrams may not be quite clear to you, I want to call your attention to two or three symbols in common use. When you see those toothed lines placed opposite each other, that means an induction or repeating coil. When you see a single one of these by itself, however, that means a resistance coil, or perhaps a resistance without the coil. Those circles connected by a link mean a polarized bell or ringer. When you sec a straight line ending in an arrow point, it means a switch contact. The rest is easily understood. "I have been around this plant pretty well and have been ordering new parts where new parts were needed in order to save buying instruments out and out. Before I get through here, I hope to see all the instruments of one or two patterns, and work off these instruments on other towns as fast as we can. Still we can make many of them as good or better than new, for we can get better material now than two or three years ago." WILL GETS Hrs INSTRUCTIONS. "Now," went on George, " I have given you these diagrams, and as I have other work to look after, you can proceed to wire up the instruments when you have nothing else to do, and I will help you as I get time. First start in on those old telephones and fix them up. Be sure to do a neat, clean job, for 1 don't want anything to go out looking as though it had been done by a lot of careless boys, like some instruments we have here. "Now, let me see--first you will need some tools for this work. You can use those in my kit if you like, but don't you break any of them. Be sure to gather them u...