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.

HomeR › Rigging

Rigging

"Rigging" and "tackle" are synonymous terms in the foundry, meaning the furnishings or apparatus provided for the construction of moulds. Foundation-plate, rings, plates, beams, slings, bolts, etc., constitute a large proportion of the rigging for loam-work; while the flasks, cheeks, drawback-plates, clamps, bolts, beams, etc., represent the rigging almost always required for any important mould in green or dry sand.

← RiddlesRing →