PRODUCE NEW WELDING EQUIPMENT; SCORES POWER-STEALING IN YERVAN

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• Publication Date: March 27, 1950
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CE~:TRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
COUNTRY Ussg
SUBJECT Economic; Technological - Electrical industry
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PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
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PUBLISHED USSR
DATE
PUBLISHED 6 Nov 1949 - 3 Jan 1950
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
PRODUCE NEW WELDING EQUIPMENT;
SCORES POWER-STEALING IN YERVAN
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?.eningrad
Tho );lektrik Plant has recently consigned a large shipment of welding
transformers and spot-welding units to Moscox and Chelyabinsk. (1) The new
machinery was produced under the plant's 1950 quota. (2) The plant has pledged
to hit the production level planned for 1950 by 21 December and to release an
experimental butt-welding unit and an automatic combination arc-welding unit
by the same date. (3) TWO nex-type contsct-xeldiug units vent into assembly
on 3 January. The units have their own electric current supply and should for
this reason find wide application in rural areas not served by paver lines. (4)
The Leningrad Division of the Foundry and Press Workers Scientific Engin-
eering and Technical Society is demanding greater precision in foundry work
to cut down on subsequent mschiaing needed by forgings and stampings. The need
for electric furnaces such as the four now in use at the Krasnogvardeyets
Plant for tempering metals by resistance methods, and for crank presaes~ now
successfully operating at the Svoboda Plants are first on the list of desired
equipment. More manipulators for inserting and removing forgings from furnaces
are ~lao needed. The society also urges more hot stampings contour rolling,
and electric-spark hardening of dies. Broader application of spectral analysis
is also being pushed. (5)
A number of engineersA representing many of the country's largest machine-
buildiag plants have gathered in Leningrad to study high-frequency metal-treat-
ing methods. The high-frequency method was introduced in Leningrad industry
by V. Vologdin~ Corresponding tQemberT Academy of Sciences USSR. The courses
have been organized by the Leningrad Division of the Scientific Engineering and
Technical Association of bfachine Builders. ~6)
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The Central Scientific Research Institute of Technology and Machine-Build-
ing has produced a new universal welding tractor, the UT-1250. 1?his is an
automatic machine, designed to weld metals by means of different types of elec-
trodes ranging between 2.5 and 6 millimeters in diameter. It will permit the
welder to do up to 83 meters of seam per hour. This is considerably more than
the productive capacity of any other existing type of machine, The tractor
weighs no more than 44 kilograms, This machine will broaden, to a Brest extent,
the application of automatic welding, particularly in the heavy-machine-building
plants. (7)
The UT-1250 welding tractor represents an improvement of the old UT-1500,
since it is 31 kilograms lighter and more easily movable. Its case can hold 10
kilograms of electrode wire. Its current rate varies from 300 to 1,250 amperes.
The nex machine is superior to foreign types iu that it has a nonstep speed reg-
ulator which permits smooth speed changing. Different welding speeds can be ob-
tained while the machine is in motion, without need to change any of the parts.
It is extremely simple to operate; the worker only has to load the chamber with
wire, put the fusing agent in the hopper and set the speed oP the carriage and
the electric current. (8)
In comparison with 1948, the Plant imeni Vladimir I1'ich increased its 199
output as follows: electric motors of 100 kilowatts or more, 1.5 times; motors
of less than 100 kilowatts, 3 times; magnetic drill unite, 45 percent; and oil
rheostats, more than double. In honor of Stalin's birthday the workers pledged
to produce 500 electric motors of 100 kilowatts or more, and 450 motors of less
than 100 kilowatts, the lstter to total not less than 85,000 kilowatts, end 700
oil rheostats above plan. At the same time the plant decided to begin produc-
tion of high-voltage AM6-1374 electric motors and to release 25 such machines
by 20 December. To carry out the 1950 program, the plant will Sncrease its pro-
ductive capacity 20 percent and install by 20 December a paint-drying conveyer
in the heavy-motor assembly shop. By 10 December, the nonferrous-metals cast-
ing shop is to be retooled and the core room reorganized. (9)
The paint-drying conveyer pledged for completion by 20 December, at the
Plant Imeni Vladimir I1'ich, was ready by that date. The conveyer is 50 meters
long and in 132 hours does a Sob which formerly took 72 hours, (10)
The Dinamo Plant imeni Kirov has put into operation a new high-power bor-
ing machine and afour-spindle plano-milling machine for use on electric motor
casings. The armature shop will shortly receive a special new lathe for ma-
chining commutators. The new lathe x111 replace several low-duty machine tools
formerly used in this operation. (11)
Plant No 6 of the Moscow City Local Industry Trust has begun production of
small electric motors for home use. (12)
Stalinabad
An engineer of the Central Repair Shops System, Ministry of Public Util-
ities Tadzhik SSR, writes to Kommunist Tadzhikstsna, 19 November 1949:
"The Ministry of Public Utilities decided to undertake the msnufactsx?e of
electric control panels in its central repair shops. There were, however, no
drawings for such panels in the ministry. It was suggested that I work out the
design. After several experiments I built an experimental model. A commission
approved my design and I was designated to get production tna~.^:sy in our shops.
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"On an order from the Glavelektrosbyt (Main Administration of Electrical
Products Sales, Ministry of Electrical Industry USSR) we put out 2,000 nex
panels. The ordering administratioa~ however, took on]y 500 of them with the
excuse that the demand in the republic was small, although in Stalinabad it-
self, more than 50 percent of the apartments have wooden switchboards:
"According to a decree of the Stalinabad City Executive Com7sittee, the
wooden switchboards were to be replaced with marble boards made by our shops.
This replacement is being delayed.
"The construction brigades of the Stalinabad City Industries Combine should
get this conversion underway in the shortest possible time. Our shops can sup-
ply the units needed." (13)
Construction managers in Yerevan continue to violate regulations estab-
lished by the Roard of the Yerevan Electrical Trust, despite the board's repeated
warnings. The violations include wiring without conformance to law or technical
standards, illegally tapping the network for electric supply, increasing pre-
scribed capacities, and using electricity for heating purposes. It is compulsory
teat subscribers whose systems do not have electric meters have sealed current
boxes, -- Notice Prom the Hoard, Yerevan Electrical Trust. (14)
The Yerevan Cable Plant reports that it is currently making 78 different
kinds of cable. Of these, 22 went into production during 191+9. (15)
Tallin
The Tallin Polytechnical Institute is collaborating closely with industrial
enterprises. Its laboratory for testing the resistance of materials alone car-
ries out more than 400 experiments and evaluations annually; its chemical labor-
atory r~erforms over 100 analyses and evaluations. The institute gives continual
assistance to such plants as the "Eatonenergo," Electric Element, "IKA," and
'~Arba." The institute, jointly xith the "Sel'elektro" Trust, has carried out as
extensive investigation of the electric power reserves of Saarmsa and Kiyumsa
and the possibilities of kolkhoz electrification.
The institute's chair in thermodynamics is, at present, engaged in research
oa the properties of diatomite and its use as an insulation material. However,
the management of the "Eesti Diatomit" Plant has so far shown little interest in
this very important problem and hea failed to respond to the institute's request
for cooperation. (16)
Zaprudnya
The Zaprudnya Glass Plant is about to put into operation a third assembly
line for 1,000-watt bulbs. By 2.1 December, a semiautomatic machine for blowing
high-wattage bulbs will be completed. (17)
SOURCES
1. Moskovskiy Bolshevik, No 284, 3 Dec 49
2. Sovetskaya Estoniys, No 285, 4 Dec !r9
3. Leningradakaya Pravda, No 285, 4 Dec 49
4. Trud, No 2, 3 Jan 50
~. Leningradskaya Pravda, No 280, 29 Nov 49
~. Moskovskiy Komsomolets, No 141, 19 Nov 49
7. Moskovskiy Bolshevik, No 263, 6 ilov 4~
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Ko~unist Tadzhiketaaa~ fto 227
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Ko~unist~ fto 264, 3 Dec 49
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No 278, 7 Dec 49
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Sovetskaya Eetonlys~ No 291, 11 Dec 49
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Trudy No 293, 13 Dec 49
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