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Damaged Drill Bit (Equipment failures) Item Info

Title:
Damaged Drill Bit (Equipment failures)
Creator:
Foss, H.E.
Date Created:
1949-05-10
Description:
Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation Division, Soap Lake Siphon, Specifications 2411, Utah Construction Company and Winston Bros. Co., Contractor. This photograph of two 2-inch I.R. insert bits. The one on the left is new. The one on the right has drilled approximately 1,000 lin. feet of basalt. The absence of one cutting edge does not lower the drilling rate appreciably. Mr. L. Moore the I.R. representative said the bit would work better if the opposite insert was knocked out. H.E. Foss, photographer
Subjects:
drill bits equipment failures
Location:
Washington (State) Grant County
Latitude:
47.422262
Longitude:
-119.495598
Publisher:
University of Idaho Library Digital Initiatives, http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/
Source:
Army Corps of Engineers Dam Construction photographs, 1933-1965, PG 94, University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives
Finding Aid:
https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv165618
Source Identifier:
94-4-2664
Type:
Image;StillImage
Format:
image/jpeg

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