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FILE NAME: General Electric (GE) DATE: 1926 Apr 21 DOC#: GE060 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Plant Inspection Report .*^ ' ^~.*S1^._^'.iTT^j.V^-S jj|5' Vvt'<2 >o ~v"''''.<# # .'|$.' r ^. ^ foKg l Atfa.i . . * V I . ,# ,, <* B33? .P H I.M.*i.D BX', MiKmf*yj"".' . fr * the Mr. flteoie'ntt . .% s ' / '* purpose 'of ; ^ v l - k \CM M Skii .Which, .had .-at.ye.t .Ijegth j k o l H a .l8 5 * ' ' ' '- --.' *'i,A?ji3&kL.-,. fhe finishing, dpafi$ la rg e roora close tovtlw wlt|i,` ^... * tack of the acid jars 'w ith^lkihii and the su ctio n .i Yery atrrags; i^&r arrangem ent? v Band b lastin g J r J f -' . v ' * '' .. . * ' ' v V .i 1: . . ' - &&'~l'&***0 V:.* ***.%., f- ' 1' * ' , . * $-: \''' '*:.**.;.'-' > 4$ Iw. .a.d*e, . 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I t i s said that gw iB.|(^fe3pMS:t.': ''ertainly. toe men who go to the..dispe^^^.;;4 g|aplaj lg of ir r ita tio n of PLAINTIFFS fe _ EXHIBIT 1 ^ 3 SU jjEireSP* ?.jii- :t,y !---:ut.yw m M M M^ ' V - ;/ / . ' . ; . : ' 1 : ^ 5 | * I VvV%.-V?#Jj$ t h e . eyes are-' h o t,the 'sfei&LS,, , ;* . * `- , i -* >\ a and! esp ecia lly the c n e s ^ ^ much whether r.they can heo$a^ more* proiahl*. that t h e y ^ e ^ ' ' " .- " :v ' :I * k g | g est that new .men,he vfcnjr*] refra in as much as po'sjsi'biil the flame. I suppose.; it.uwp a l l to wear.-goggles. ; */- Paint; 8pr&yin"4j'* v '. '. y i the paint foreman, demoristi - :. vc. }1$&M with a lew a ir pressur.el`Vt|j^ : ;? ^ way preventing the spread;' * * ' *' A* ". only paint which, -does f l y | | . 'w>i i s used in a. separate oh^C ^ ; .' .'! ` tfJ S s . . the .switch"ihoaee is plansdjp struated to stand at right that the clraft can catch.'.'il evident from the appe&r^tjtjS department that the paint'AC of course, a very inipbirtant'^ that is being sprayed.//?'-;^ * * ' r* t / ' . n * r* r Ih e m ed ical ae|k$? *. . - '.ygHjRL VgSL equipped d -e ja rtn a n t ia?toijSH tr ie * and I mention i t of g r e a t prid e to the .1 `* y. I*v IJiV V U M ------ . ............ SV js L 'j g i! i. * / - V I `w r ItereV JpSj^'V.; '". '.v-'vV; * |&r&remen ifee.Q&?>* > p ,< / - f \ `/ . * vrii-f " them^rsV. -. ')'c !.' ' r . .. - <1*1'' ... B ^ r spraying.-, ^ ite h f ".in this..,,The; ie^lhrbsm primer, MWall.-.-' Here ' ^fiel'xcan i s ,in - ;";. Sr`-M-,fc'*w. rfr X,y' ' {Miij",h. ying .'so."-'.' - ' "very ^ > ' r - * - "'r ' S n ^ ^ th is i s , ' '. ^faad paint ' */ ' $$':?: :: ' -' ully- . ; - y ^ $&:*:"' ' " ' le^.General Elec- . joifLa^e" a source , a ta fe fe -.  Jt / kJ t * f i 1 >* : / rh i r. ? w - Ci'*,. t- -> C w V 1 ' a . c - C 6. ' -f r "> V ' ,P itts fie ld Hay,' 1926. ? . U. 3,rans.on, cheiaiet, assistant. to civile. D. C. Cox, D obell. SndjLoott and ,J. R. T .C ra ih And L, 0 Thompson s " ? o f th e lig h te n in g airestbr department. _ C. C. Cheeney. works manager', itas not there.. n eith er Ws F. 12.' Clark:, a chemist In charge of capacitor .experimentation.' Capici to r. departm ent.- i t -starts with .the. making of insulators out. of aluminum f o il and lin e n paper wound round, end round, -amali ones of low voltage are .covered with' a .wax,. Crasin, '.ditch comes from petroleum ina shale and is -p ra c tic a lly the same as refined oaokerite. For insulators fo r higher voltag e holOwax is used; th is is chi orinatoli 'naphthalene end has a higher d i-e le c tric , constant. T ransll o il is .a d i s tilla te coming off between kerosene-and .\- u b rleating o i l . There i s -skin trouble is th is department whre tlib men-have to get I t a l l over th e ir arms and -spill is about. ' -Capacitors must- be kept under - oil*. The w ork'is done in a low basement.nine' fe e t h ig h , and there are many treating tanks here w ith tr a u s i i oil kept a t 100 C. 'Sven on a crisp cool day . i t is hot here and 'it i s not cold even in w inter. : The windows open on'the' railway tracks and must be screened with cheesecloth' to keep ou t the soot. There is one small fan tb blow in a i r . . Svn.fo r the comfort of the. men in summer they , deed more forced vehtilation and the rook is u tte r ly u n fit if a v o la tile poison lik e n itro h en so l is to be used, fo r th is e n ters also by -the skin There are ten wash-bowls f o r f if ty men, an adequate number, but the water is only warm and no soap or tow els, even paper, are provided. The men tie rags Pittafield e, provided as. c le a n ly rags on th e ir aras and use them as towels. The proposed method Is th is . tfitrobehzol may be Md as'bQhgjht, but may be f i r s t vacuus-dlstilled* .then piped from thk to the 'th c i# 'rsa 'tin ' trik where the apaeltor h sa lr a d y been placed. Id t i e laboratory the best. ' re su lts have been obtained by f i r s t washing the c ap a c ito r'iiT a pan Of.SB and' squeeaing and immersing i t several times..' The J3 Will be tu n 'in Slowly and whan the capacitor. Is saturated-the heat w ill be turned off and the tank, cooled down to.1 . /*. . ' * f ' N , , * * 50 C or lower. . All thiB is,open. Then a table On wheels is rdn .to, the -tank,'and tie fu ll paps are lif te d out by'means pf hooks. Ho' contact with TB I s necessary here unless the men slop the flu id in lif tin g out the cans. ..Shis table is run into the next room| i t is covered w ith a'msta'l tray and a t present the tra n s i 1 c i l sp ills over a good deal on to the tra y . The table is moved to 'a tra n sfe r tank made of. - galvanized iro n about three fe e t by eighteen inches, and eighteen so' twenty inches . deep, open fu ll of HB 'The pan with the capacitor is lif te d from the table and placed in th is tank under S3, and the capacitor slipped but from the can, always ' while submerged. .Various slig h t adjustments must bem ads, taking iabput .five minutes, the man working a l l th time under H3. . One man would do about l o t 'kpcl.tor about - two or .three .times a week. ' The next step is to s l i p the-can-Ags-ip' under th iB, - Clip the capacitor into i t and take i t to the-soldering table which i s covered with'., galvanised iron with a ra ised edge to catch the .d rip . At p resen t, working' in o il. the solde re r s get their hands and arms covered with o il and. th e ir, clothing also unless they wear rubber aprons. . I t is hard to do a good soldering .Job, and leaks are-veiy oommon. ...... Pittsfield i 3 A lightening a rre sto r is made by placing together two discs of brass covered on the inner surfaces with insulating varnish which i s made of sy n th e tic re sin dissolved in denatured alcohol one parr,' benzol two p arts porcelain rin g slipped between them keeps them a p a rt, am the space thus formed is f ille d with brown peroside of lead.. A discharge of lightening changes th e la tte r back to lith a rg e , Which ie a non-conductor. . Red lead is bought in wooden barrels or metal kegs Which stand outside . the building. They arc opened, taken into tls building and tipped over to discharge into an open tank about four feet in diameter. There are eig h t of these, each f ille d a t least once a day. The tank oontains water with sodium hydrate* Chlorine from a cylinder i s run in through'a pipe which opensunder th e water, and the chlorates and perch lo rates which form oxidize the lead* The peroxide freezes .solid,' then softens and' the re a c tio n is over. A sem icircular exhaust two or three' inches wide runs around the f a r edge of the tank, half-way round; there is a good d ra ft. The floor is o f w ater-proof concrete draining into a s e ttlin g tank, but only part, of I t is wet, and even th is is accidental. The peroxide is freed from chlorine and .caustic by washing in big tanks into which i t is pumped and s tir r e d . Hero the floor is of ridged metal p la te s . At the end of th is same room, peroxide 'is made into p e lle ts in an open tumbling b arrel lying on its . side.. The man throws in dry .peroxide from an open can, and the p e lle ts i&ich form drop Out in a continual stream, into an open car; many r o l l on the flo o r which is covered with a good deal of brown dust. On a dust-covered f l a t metal table is an open m ill w ith grinder and se'i7e, and here p e lle ts are ground to fine granules, and cobs out in showers to the. pan belcwi Brown dust lie s evexy\4i&re. A pipe with strong suction is placed in front -and somewhat below the opening of tho tumbler; th is is a d ju sta b le . The motor and b e lt and everything e lse connected with the grinder is very dusty. 5hB fin al shovelling of "the p e lle ts back in to the tumbler to g et them uniform ra is e s a stream of dust, ' K tcsfild 6 Advile i anointing with c a s te r o il before work* p ro v id in g b lan d soap ...and instrocfcing the .men not to 'ae ra b , providing towels, -nd fin a l lb..itttp^ w.lt', :bBr... / They use S' p sr pent a n ilin e In resia.grpund up, h a lte d ap spread on psper.^en a. ` hot plate^ .only-four men work hero, and so fa r t&ey hatte'triai ho lhosiafx