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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Sweep

See STRICKLE.

Sweep-board is essentially a strickle, but this term is invariably used for all boards that are intended to sweep circular moulds by means of the spindle. The sweep-board is bolted to the spindle-arm, and, being revolved, imparts to the finished cope whatever design has been carved on its edge. See STRICKLE; SPINDLE; LOAM-MOULDING.

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