| Show Brackens Bracken s 's s Mod Modern Repair air Shop nas Has No iV V Equal Between Chicago and Los Lo Angeles A I N V NE EW quarters of larry Harry L. L Brackens Bracken's completely equipped shop for the grinding grinding- of cylinders crank shafts and pistons and the making of piston rings and wrist pins pills Work Vork is shipped by express to this shop from Montana Idaho Utah Nevada Colorado and Wyoming HARY L 1 q t f y u j 7 b P-j- P x a 4 S' S v 4 4 4 4 r t Vu 5 A lp k 3 4 t- t s. s I t 1 4 I. I bi it jt 4 C It 4 t 4 i I V r i f r 4 tr d- d r j V V J J V V 4 ig ur J 4 z duL q 4 v k 4 V Vs V V s VI V V PS u f V V V V V V V V V V V. V V c L iV w r q t V V V A a I 4 I 1 I i f i 1 V 4 4 t V V VV 2 V 2 4 Mo d q A y I jo so 4 f Y I v o M 4 w V V V V VV V V V VV VV VV V V V S V S V V V L V By James H. H McCool All An the magic of Aladdin ns n's s time was wasA A A. B B. B C stuff when compared with the wonders wrought b by modern machinery This Is most interestingly exemplified In n the tIme automobile repair busin business ss and particularly In iii that part of it which hasto hasto has hasto to do o with the grinding of cylinders and crank shafts and the making of piston rings Salt S Lake Is the home of ot the time most completely equipped shop for this kind Ind of work vork that be he found can anywhere be- be Chicago and Los os An Angeles eles This shop hop owned and managed b by Harry 1 I Bracken one of ot the lie acknowledged ed expert automobile mechanics of time the United States and a p pioneer one r re resident l lent of Utah was vas established about two and a half halt I years ears eart a ago o ond and nd has experienced such a remarkable re- re reI I m growth of business that hat Mr Ir Bracken has been obliged to remove to new quarters at 10 Social HaU hail avenue In n one of the handsomest locations on the new auto row TO More than than- has been lIeen InveSted b by Mr lr Bracken in the Installation of tho most modern machinery manufactured All An the time machines In the shop arc are driven b by electric motors Included In this equipment are arc two to cylinder grinding machines each costing 2500 one I-andis I Universal 31 grinding grind grind- fn log ing machine for grinding pistons and rin rings s. s 1600 ono Landis Land Is crank shaft grinding machine co cowling cowling- with equipment t one olle Heald magnetic chuck ring rin- and ani surface grinder anti and be besides besides be- be sides this special equipment boring machines machines machines ma ma- chines for roughing out work lathes I drill presses ring Cutting uttIng machines special special pe- pe cial jl jigs s and anti measuring In Instruments for thin particular line Una of work V The rime Brai Braken ken shop do does nothing else but grind rInd cylinders and crank shafts and manufacture pistons piston rings and wrist pins The crank shaft hart grinder in the Bracken establishment Is the product of the l largest lar har- gest manufacturer of or this kind of or machine machine machine ma ma- chine in the tho world The rhe machine is ca capable la ca- liable pable of handling handlin shafts of the smallest size up to lo tractor shafts of ot Inch eight throw The machine with dm driving Ing motor weighs six FIx and one half tons B By means of a delicately sealed scaled lcd measuring instrument ment work can bo ho performed with this machine to an accuracy of one thou ten part of or an inch In all cylinder clInder crank shaft haft grinding s etc micrometer measurements arc are used usell exclusively making mak I in ing It practically impossible for a mistake to happen WORK FROM EVERYWHERE I Repair work from all parts of or Utah Idaho Montana Colorado Nevada a. a andI and I Wyoming Is shipped 11 by express s to Brackens Bracken's which has built up a reputation tion ion for accurate performance that is hi a byword In the Intermountain West est While the writer was being condu conducted ted I over the shop b by Mr Ir Bracken ho lie saw S cylinders pistons and crank rank shafts from Twin 1 Falls Idaho Ogden St. St Johns Salt Sail l Lake ke Cedar City Provo Utah Ulah Am American Amen Ameri rl can Falls Fall Idaho Ely 11 Nev Rock flock Springs Wyo 0 Brigham harn CIt City and andSt St St. George Utah either cither being ground round In Inthe Inthe Inthe the machines or on waiting their turn hithe in ii inthe the shop Every mechanic in the Bracken shop and the they were as thick k as ns bees hees Is an am expert Here there and everywhere Mr Ir Bracken himself lends that hat touch louch of personal supervision which has made his shop known from Chiea Chicago o to California Cali Call fornia little problems of repair work wort aro arc bein being constantly brought ht to Mr Brackens Bracken's notice and he set settles lies these In- In ami and with a f few fw decisive curt curl I words of or explanation or direction In each case Th ThC men being experts themselves them them- seh selves accept his word as final and carry carr carryout carryout out his Instructions to 10 the letter having Implicit confidence nce in his ability as aR n a V technical export to 10 know that lint whatever he lie decided ci ed on Is Js the best thin thing to do under un un- tier del the tIme circumstances So thorough h is Mr Bracken In everything everything every every- thing he does hoes and so particular is he that lint before he lie would n agree to permit mo to tell teU the time story of his shop he lie insisted that I take down notes on his t typewriter pe and he lie looked these over o to bo be absolutely lel sure that there would be no mistake The Thc machines in his shop are not mere Inanimate masses of material to Bracken He Ito regards them theta much tho the same as a lover of blue blooded stock looks look upon a race horse He lie Is Interested in ever every phase of the work worl which In Is his avocation as well as his vocation and ii livelihood vel I hood NO WORD WASTER V Bracken is the time type of or man an 11 automobile automobile automobile auto auto- mobile editor likes Hites t talk to He lie wastes no words and his conversation Is la Illuminating and intensely interesting He lie makes an Intricate piece of machinery familiar to a novice no in a few minutes Did you ou ever know that a piece of cast- cast casti i iron is susceptible to internal movement for or a long period II after It Is turned out I from the manufacturing plant Well I II didn't but thanks to Mr Ir Bracken I do donow I now It is a fact that h he ht molecules or atoms atom or whatever else you'd youl call the I smallest component parts of an Iron casting cast cast- In lug ing move about for some little time limo be before before be- be fore for they finally sel settle tIc down clown This i Is tho the reason son according to Mr fr Bracken w why wi-my y the tho c cylinder of or an automobile automobile auto auto- mobile en engine is in better shape to do efficient work after being reground In his shop t than ha n It was when It first left the automobile factory I It II Is admitted b by nil all engineers says as asIr I Mr Bracken Braden that motor blocks become i I better after use Ie ns as they are arp- much less IN s apt to toarp warp arp or distort after a certain length of time Line in to actual use Consequent Consequent- on I 1 Iv h hen I time the hI become worn I clent cleat to require refitting the second grinding grind grind- in tug ing and set sot of or pistons will give II even e better results than the first After the cylinders are reground the motor will I again develop elop as us much or more power inmost in inmost most cases as when n new w IMPORTANT Up Cp till a fc few years ears a ago o the avera average e eI mechanic did lid not realize the tho importance I of or crank shafts shaft Every car owner and amid truck owner has ms probably undergone undergone un un- un- un the experience of having ln the motor motor motor mo mo- tor bearing bearin taken up after several thousand thousand thousand thou thou- sand miles only to find that It would loosen again In a very short time This I II is due thue to the shaft wearing somewhat out outI of round It has been demonstrated that I after a shaft becomes as little as two or three-thousandths three of an Inch out of I round It Is impossible to keep a 3 bearing tight for an any length of time It H Is not unusual in shafts to find th them m mout out of round as much as thou fifteen of an inch A shaft in this condition condition con con- makes it Impo impossible to keep the time babbit harln bearings s from being ruined as the tIme play In the tIme shaft hat causes It to hammer ham ham- mer nier at these thele bearings sIn s. s In iii the time making m of piston rings in our our- shop the ring Is first turned out of ot u a sleeve slee ring stock Mock casting The ring Is then lien ground on the side b by the magnetic magnetto chuck grinder It Is held fas fast t b by magnetic mag mag- power while bein being ground Next the ring goes Joes to a cutting machine machine ma ma- chine where it Is cut In two In the usual step joint After this lila operation it is isI I closed into Inlo a collar slightly lIghtb larger than the tIme cylinder clinder to be fitted It is alwa always s 's necessary to turn a pl piston ton ring in the Initial Initial Ini mi- process larger r than tho the cylinder to give Il It sufficient spring against the clInder cylinder clIn der wall to hold gas In doln doing this the circle Is nJ ch changed d so that the tIme ring would Co Continued on page paJe 2 2 I I I BRACKENS BRACKEN'S MODERN Continued from pa page e I 1 not fit fil after cutting the step Joint joInt close the rin ring into a L collar a little I Ithan tare larr I than ihan the cylinder bore Tho The ring is th lh held to together ether b by side pressure the collar to be bo removed in n this pot cos I lion tion the ring rillS is ground on tho the outs to the r exact size Ize of oC the cylinder Th To grinding ln mal makes the circle s perfect agar a an I thus allowing a a. perfect fit tit with the pro er spring or tension against the wall w AGENTS FOR PISTONS We Ve are the intermountain distributor distribute for the noted pistons mat mad b by W. W II It Jahn J of oC Los An Angeles eles For Tor Ii lightness ss and strength th thc these p D'- D' tons probably excel an any oth other r on tho the ma mi Iet het toda today We e carry rry a a. complete stoc stoe of oC these pis pistons tOilS for tor all popular automo biles tractors and trucks One of oC the most serious problems problem I II III this territory has been that in regard reg-ard t the tho truck and tractor business Then The I machines doln doing so much harder wor wort orl than the tho pa passenger car wear a great dea faster on vital parts This makes th rho I refitting operation more necessary ry fo fOI good oo results than titan it is in lh tha passenger I car We c are arc and we believe belle with good reason rea tea I son very ery prou proud of oC our shop It is conceded con cc ceded erl to be he without a peer In any city I between Chicago an and Los Log Angeles Antles Some SomeI shops of oC the kind east of oC Cn Chicago gO are a I little larger l but hut we know ot of none noM thatis that thai is more completely equipped lo to handy 11 1150 so 50 many different kinds of oC repairs repass Y I C liar Jar to this line lino of or business Before our advent ent in the tarn tain country automobile owners d necessary to send their crank shaft hatt cylinders an and pistons pistons' to the factories factories' the East for grinding ln an and adjustment account of the cost of tr transportation 1 t wa was a WEll WE'll nh nigh h prohibitive |
