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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Chipper

Castings, when lifted out of the sand, are freed from burnt, adhering sand by the cleaner; after which, by means of hammers, chisels, and files, all superfluous metal, as heads, gates, fins, etc., are removed by the chipper.

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