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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Drawing Air

A common but incorrect term for the violent commotion occurring at the down-gate, when, because of the too limited area of basin-runner, where it connects with the down-gate, there is not a sufficient body of metal to keep it full, and thus check the escape of expanded air from the mould. See DOWN-GATE.

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