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Show OXY ACETYLENE CUTS REPAIR EXPENSE Modern automobile repair shops all over the United States have adopted the-oxy-acetylene process of metal welding. It is said that the cost of repairing brokx-n and -worn equipment in this manner lias been more than cut in two. "Metal-cutting1 ecmipirent is a valuable adjunct," says Manager E. E. Darling of the Monarch Motor company, 123-5 East Third South streot, local apents for the Prest-O-Lipht dissolved acetylene, "to any portable cxyacetylene outfit. Its a.d-vantasres a.d-vantasres in all cutting" operations on wroupht iron and steel are manifold. The cutting- blowpipe enables the opeiator to cut through any thicKness of metal up to fourteen inches. In - clearing1 away debris in rai'roail wrecks, explosions, dismantling dis-mantling structural iron building frames, etc., a single operator can do the work of a large gang of men in less than one-fourth one-fourth the time taken by old wrecking ! methods. In cutting away corrbded or I burnt metal, preparatory to patching by ! welding, the cutting operation saves con-I con-I siderable i ime and expense over older methods. In cutting up heavy scrap irtto smaller sections for handling, much time and money is saved, thus increasing the profit resulting from its sale as junk. ! "Portability in any cutting outfit Is important, especially In a outside work, when the apparatus has to be hauled from place to place. Thfl Monarch Motor com; pany sells Prest-O-Ijite dissolved acety-; acety-; lenc In portable cylinders In any quan-' quan-' tity." |