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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Sand-dusters

Flat, round vessels of block-tin, with fine perforations on one of the flat sides. They are used largely among hardware and stove founders for dusting the joints with parting-sand, instead of using the hand for that purpose. See PARTING; PARTING-SAND.

Sand-floor is that part of the foundry floor usually devoted to the production of castings in green sand, many of which are moulded in the sand-floor itself, and termed "sand-floor," to distinguish it from the dry-sand and loam-work floors. See FLOOR-MOULDING; BLACK SAND.

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