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Tuesday, July 13, 2010

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Chic Silber said...: Interesting construction of the

tubs as the supports are riveted

to the rings instead of welded

Never saw that before; 13 July, 2010 09:51
J C Hall said...: Chic
Wonder if they were built by the Eli Bridge co.?
I have seen other items of that era and before that were hot riveted or possibly might have been on account of war rationing on welding supplies?; 13 July, 2010 23:49
Roger Smith said...: When I was in talks with Gil Gray about breaking him a cat act, which sadly did not come about, he told me how he'd build an arena--with rivets instead of welds. In his opinion, and you engineers might weigh in here, rivets are twice as strong as a weld.; 14 July, 2010 03:41
Chic Silber said...: Not so Roger but rivets (that hold

most of the older bridges & the NY

subway system together) were done

manually with only the need for a

portable forge to heat them & a

lot of hammering

Large scale rivets have been

mostly replaced by bolts & nuts

And yes Jimmy they might have been

by "Big Eli" as I recall the older

wheels were riveted; 14 July, 2010 08:51

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