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Highlights
Blow-holes
Another name for blisters, but more correctly meaning such holes as are further removed from the surface, or, perhaps, entire…
Seating
A guide-bearing or rest for cores or mould sections. In vertical loam-work the cope or the core, and sometimes both, are made as…
Graphite
The nature of graphite, sometimes called plumbago or black lead, is not generally understood. Eminent writers on friction have…
Pig-iron Breaker
The common form of breaker for pig-iron is a heavy sledge-hammer. Many forms of power breakers are employed at the blast-furnaces…
Silver Alloys
For silver-plate and medals--silver 95, copper 5. Silver solder for jewellers--silver 19 dwts., copper 1 dwt., brass 10 dwts. A…
Patent Fluxes
In addition to the limestone, fluorspar, and other fluxes, used in the cupola, blast-furnaces, puddling-furnace, smelting and…