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Lubricator for Wagon Axles
garments during wet weather, for those whose Tallow, 8 pounds; palm oil, 10 pounds; and duties or labor causes them to perspire freely. plumbago, 1 pound, make a good lubricator The best way for preparing such cloth is by for wagon axles. A mixture of glycerine the process adopted for the tunics of the and plumbago makes a fine liquid lubricator.
French soldiers during the Crimean war.
It 1546. Mankettrick's Lubricating is as follows: Take 24 pounds alum and dis- Compound. 4 pounds caoutchouc dissolved solve in 10 gallons boiling water; then in a in spirits of turpentine, 10 pounds common separate vessel dissolve the same quantity soda, 1 pound glue dissolved in 10 gallons water, 10 gallons of oil thoroughly incorporated by assiduous stirring, adding the caoutchouc last. sugar of lead in 10 gallons of water, and mix the two solutions. The cloth is now well handled in this liquid, until every part of it is penetrated; then it is squeezed and dried in