The Encyclopedia of Founding

Twelve hundred entries from the golden age of cast metal — how bells are founded, why brass is not bronze, what a cupola melts and a core withstands — by Simpson Bolland, the trade's great teacher.

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Bag – Black Solder

Bag

See BLACKING-BAG.

Bail

The arched iron yoke, provided with journals, in which the ladle is suspended whilst pouring. See LADLE.

Baking

A term used in some localities in relation to the process of drying cores or moulds in the oven. See OVEN.

Bath-metal

A cheap jewelry alloy, composed of brass 32, zinc 9. See TOMBAC.

Beach-sand

See WHITE-SAND.

Bead-slickers

Tools made expressly for smoothing the surface of bead-mouldings. See SLICKER.

Beam-hook

A link-hook to slide along the beam to any required notch, the hook serving to suspend the chain for lifting with. See BEAM.

Bearing

See CORE-PRINT; SEATING.

Bituminous Coal

See Coal.

Black-flux

See FLUX.

Blacking

A general name for all classes of carbon-facings used in foundries. See FACING; BLACK LEAD; CHARCOAL; GRAPHITE.

Black Solder

Copper 32, zinc 32, tin 4. See SOLDERS.

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