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Cement for Metal and Glass
Mix 2 ounces of a thick solution of glue with 1 ounce linseed oil varnish, or ounce Venice turpentine; boil them together, stirring them until they mix as thoroughly as possible.
The pieces cemented should be tied together 2257. Caoutchouc Cement is made as follows:-Gutta-percha, 3 parts; virgin India rubber (caoutchouc), 1 part (both cut small); pyrogenous oil of turpentine, or bisulphuret of carbon, 8 parts; mix in a close vessel, and dissolve by the heat of hot water. This for 2 or 3 days. This cement will firmly atcement should be gently heated before being used. 2258. Cement to Mend India Rubber Shoes. A solution of caoutchouc, or virgin India rubber, for repairing India rubber shoes, tach any metallic substance to glass or porcelain. (See last receipt.) Tute. ute. A composition employed to sepounds caoutchouc into thin, small slices; cure the joints of chemical vessels, or put them in a vessel of tinned sheet-iron and as a covering to protect them from the viopour over 12 to 14 pounds of sulphide of car-lence of the fire. For the joints of vessels, bon. For the promotion of solution, place as stills, &c., not exposed to a heat much the vessel in another containing water pre- higher than 212° Fahr., linseed meal, either viously heated up to about 86° Fahr. The alone or mixed with an equal weight of whitsolution will take place promptly, but the ing, and made into a stiff paste with water, fluid will thicken very soon, and thus render may be employed. Ground almond cake, the application difficult, if not impossible. from which the oil has been pressed, may also In order to prevent this thickening, a solution be used for the same purpose. For the joints of caoutchouc and resin in spirits of turpen- of small vessels, as tubes, &c., especially of FLOUR PASTE. glass or earthenware, small rings of India few grains of corrosive sublimate, or a little rubber slipped over and tied above and below carbolic acid, or bisulphite of lime (especially the joint, are very convenient substitutes for lutes, and have the advantage of lasting a long time, and bearing uninjured the heat at which oil of vitriol boils.