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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Kara-Kane – Kustitien's Tinning Metal

Kara-Kane

The name given by the Japanese to their celebrated bronze mixtures for bells. See JAPANESE BRONZE-WORK.

Keep's Testing-machine

See TESTING-MACHINES.

Keim's Water-jacketed Cupola

See WATER-JACKETED CUPOLA.

Kustitien's Tinning Metal

Malleable iron 1 pound; heat to whiteness; add 5 ounces of antimony, and tin 24 pounds. See TINNING.

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