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ARGUMENTS Here'* (he place lo unload your gr/pof to editors, manulathn end fellow engineers User Reports ISMSTROMO mmml r/tgA&ifte, , About 'Namby-Pamby Education' M TRAPPING" 1 can express an opinion on your edi torial, "Namby-Pamby Education" (p 67, Nov Power), for thise reasons: (1) physical geography, possibly bio|Bj$ %'S hU fuel bill(5). Latin: two years or more to ^ you a better understanding of Erift-a I-earns up both ways. In 1906, at 16, I and of scientific terms. was taken out of high ochool and put to (6) Mechanical drawing; one fcj work. Four years later I went hack, finished both high school and college. (2) For a year 1 taught vocational with particular attention to ears of3 struments, lettering and ability ts?j neat pencil and iok work. S 20% dosses in high school, and observed the (7) Freehand drewing: one yesn Removing Tube Bundles attitude of one type of student. develop a sense of proportion. jjJ I started working in the daya of I was taught that a boy's poreau.g heat-up While E H Hoper's article, "Removing Coil* from Full Oil Tank" (j>` 125, Nov Power), explains a practical way of hutting of! oil supply to a tank-outlet eatch-em-young, treal-em-rough, tell-emnothing. The old practical-experience men looked on college graduates as sus picious characters. Anything learned to considerable effort lo send hito't school. So it is his duty to make'tk most of his opportunities. If he fsibl this he should be taken out of Kjj& il:.i5% heater, the method ii very expensive. out ol a book was no learning at .all. and put on his own. Large-diameter gate rabies are costly. These men said: "Authorities require Since odopilon of compulsory cine? In tome cases cost of valve may exceed four years of high-school subjects lo lion until 18, or work permits at 16)? that of heater. enter college. None of the subjects has type of student is kept in school Simple-operating swing valve shuts any practical value, but they are re whom education beyond mere readi^1 of!-oil flow if tube bundle has to be re quired. So unless you are going to col ond writing has doubtful value. Nuns ,-iiitWr" haps prove to be moved. A machined surface on the heat lege, high school is wasted. It is better ous boys In high school say, "Just urn ^ANSWER FOR PAST HEAT-UP er shell and a flapper valve hinged at to go to work os soon as you' finish tip time until I am 16 ond con get'" top-back end of shell do the work. Flap grommar school." work permit. What's the use of icla! per has neoprene insert gasket that seta Rut 1 know from experience that (his anyway? I con make as much mote on the machined surface, oil pressure reasoning is wrong. In any branch of heating rivets in a shipyard as a sebp inside lank causes positive sealing.-Han engineering or icience. high-school sub teacher earns after five years of ttsf dle extends to roof. Oil-equalising line jects are absolutely essential. Even 11 1 in college." i between storage lank and healer shell had known I had lo work for several Another type believes he can take Experience of Graenhovco Owner Point! Way allows easy reopening of awing valve by equalising pressures. Valves can be fur nished as standard equipment. H S Lewis Newark, NJ, Manning < Lewis Engineering Co It Dead Slop Possible? Marmaduke's story about a Liberty hip's engine etopping dead (p M2, Nov Power) is just a sen story. With his safety valves blowing to atmosphere, he must have had about 235 psi both in his drums and at his throttle. The wheel, having just left the water, must here been turning at 72 rpm or more. Momentum of wheel, hull gear, crank years between high school and college I would have token a college-prepara tory course. This is my idea of a good course: fl) Methemeiies: algebra, plane, olid and spherical geometry, and plane nnd spherical trigonometry. If possible, also coordinate geometry, elementary calculus or descriptive geometry. (2) English: Four years, with as much oral and written composition, pub lic speaking, and debating oa possible. (3) History: Four years, including ancient, medieval, modern, English, and U.S.; also U.S. and your own state con stitutions, and your city charter. (4) Science: physics, chemistry and easy, have a good time, then mak^ last-semester spurt to finish at the toi Other students apparently do poorly'i the beginning, but hard work and (M ccntrolion Anally show results. Education should emphasize fuob mentals. Teach a student what be..; studying and why, show him it ts to b interest to make the most of his opf* (unities.' I have known men studyie elementary arithmetic n night schooli any, "How foolish 1 was not to lew this earlier. Why didn't my peure^ and teachers make it clear, Install * letting me grow up with wrong oltitutjj on education?" < SI T Livincston Los Angeles, Cali! <"vVIX.R\>MvtC OHM THERMIC ClOSfO Ii lvd an and aft Y pntadWaDy, him) trap* give rtallyfotl accumulated air and tdamdmafa It pocktltd and will ba vpithtd 'airt ahead' al Incamtng ilian. ,*'J**S1 aviEISary thermic van? In iht Japant whan tha trap t told, wMill* right through trap, raaihaa 110V lha tharmlc nd trap oparolat at o b itotdwd ttep (taa drawing* abava |. .trapt ra Idaol In tlngl* plpa cMtbjttnaU an-and-off unit hotti, ThMHiad-aO owllipla toll*, drip poUla, &.! P** 37 of Tho Siaom Trap Boah. w to Creator Efficiency In Any Plant.. . THE problem of operating steam heated equipment efficiently is basic ally the same whether you operate a greenhouse, a refinery or a food processing plant. That is why.the experience of Reiss' Greenhouses, Minneapolis, should prove of Inter est and value to you. . By replacing old, inefficient steam traps on heating piping with an indi vidual Armstrong "blast" trap on each coil, Reiss' cut its fuel bill ex actly 20% and speeded-up heating of cold coils by 13%. This benefit was gained solely because Armstrong traps drain condensate and oir from steam heated units as fast as it accumulates and without leaking steam. In Reiss' case tho "blast" traps described at the left were particularly beneficial, and may be in your case. For complete Infor mation cnll your local Armstrong Representative, or write: ARMSTRONG MACHINE WORKS II Maple StfRtt, Thtaa llvart, Michigan web# ond all the other heavy parts, plus about 25 in. Hg*ln thecondenscr nd 235 psi at the throttle, would cer You Oof More Out of Your Fuel When You Use Armstrong mUnlt Trapping* tainly have kept the engine running. . '* If some tremendous force had brought it to a sudden dead stop, Msrmeduke would have had to break out the oars and row to port, because he would not have had a propulsion plant left. J J Ceist Sheepshead Boy, N.Y. Likes Proverbs May I compliment you on the leaflet entitled, "-New Proverbs for Young En gineers"? These proverbs constitute in formation that all men wish to have, but they don't know where to find it. piling this most interesting leaflet-; W C Harcravks St Louis, Editor's Noth: Proverbs refcrftt ro,TOUI COPY ' 09 ,paob ^Y.m0NO ,TUM "A* OOEI were imffen 6y Phil Swain and *" Impa far all lished In Potter tome years ago glut Inundation and thousands havt been distributed. If Pft jirkiilZr*? 'mntiijtiltfli trap Hit JUST CUT THIS TO TOO! (QtlPMY UIUtHUO AKO JUIl: ARMSTRONG MACHINE WORKS ITS MapU SfMl, Thin Riven, Michigan Please send me The Sleom Trap Book. Editor's Note: But engine did stop, regardless--just as Marmy jaid. Let me commend you on the foresight and ingenuity you have shown in com- would tike a copy let us know. L&K iSwj" it free while supply lasts. gJ.r'Z jr*V.Jgv. PUNT OPERATION AMO MAINTENANCE SECTION PO# . ril!UAY 1,53