92 ROUGH-AND-TUMBLE ENGIN 



and \crges on expertness. And if you wish t<> be 

 an expert, learn to be observing. 



It is getting very common among engineers to use 

 "hard grease" on the crank pin and main journals, and 

 it will very soon be used exclusively. With a good g- 

 of grease your crank will not heat so quickly as with 

 oil and your engine will be much easier to keep clean. 

 If you are going to be an engineer be a neat one, keep 

 your engine clean and keep yourself clean. You say you 

 can't do that; but you can at least keep yourself looking 

 respectably. You will most certainly keep your engine 

 looking as though it had an engineer. Keep a good 

 bunch of waste handy, and when it is necessary to wipe 

 your hands use the waste and not your overalls, and when 

 you go in to a nice dinner the cook will not say after you 

 go out, "Look here where that dirty engineer sat." Now 

 boys, these are things worth heeding. I have actually 

 known threshing crews to lose good customers simply 

 because of their dirty clothes. The women kicked and 

 they had a right to kick. Of course, you are not ex- 

 pected to wear a shirt waist or knee pants, but you ou.cjit 

 to take some pride in your personal appearance. A < 

 greasy pair of overalls is no sign of an engineer, ai 1 

 again these same old greasy overalls are nothing t 

 ashamed of, but it is a very easy matter to slip them off 

 before going into a clean house. Suppose the entire crev 

 of a threshing outfit should make it a rule to remove xhei: 



