The practical metal-worker's assistant : comprising metallurgic chemistry, the arts of working all metals and alloys, forging of iron and steel, hardening and tempering, melting and mixing, casting and founding, works in sheet metal, the processes dependent on the ductility of the metals, soldering, and the most improved processes, and tools employed by metal-workers, with the application of the art of electro-metallurgy to manufacturing processes, collected from original sources, and from the works of Holtzapffel, Bergeron, Leupold, Plumier, Napier, Scoffern, Clay, Fairbairn, and others (1872)
Byrne, Oliver · Philadelphia : H.C. Baird · leaf 348
346 THE PRACTICAL METAL-WORKERS ASSISTANT. air, through the pipe c, from bellows worked bj the foot. The pew ter wares, many of which are circular, are placed on the gentleman, or a revolving pedestal, which may be adjusted by the side screw to any height: the workmen dip the strip of solder in a… … as for other articles in pewter. The pewters bear nearly the proportion of the alloys Nos. 8 to 12, page 334: for the less fusible containing most tin, the solder No. 8, or 2 tin 1 lead, is used; for the more fusible containing most lead, the bismuth solders, 2 tin 1 lead 1 bismuth, and others of…
Metal-work · Electrometallurgy · Metallurgy
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