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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Mousing-hook, Mushet's Crucibles & Music-metal

Mousing-hook

A hook with some contrivance for preventing the hook, ring, or link resting therein from slipping out.

Mushet's Crucibles

See CRUCIBLES.

Music-metal

Tin 65.8, antimony 8, copper 26, iron 3.2. The common alloy is tin 80, copper 20. See BRASS; COPPER; ALLOYS.

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