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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The forge-train consists of two pairs of rolls connected in one line, those on the left being the roughing or puddle rolls; the right are the finishing-rolls. The mill-train also consists of two pairs of rolls--roughing or billeting rolls, and finishing-rolls. Forge-train puddle-rolls receive the puddle-blooms from the squeezer; the mill-train billeting-rolls are for rolling merchant-iron from the puddled bar after being cut, piled, and reheated.

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