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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Truck

Almost any contrivance on wheels for carrying loads is called a truck. At one time trucks were of such variety as almost to defy description, but the tram-rail and overhead conveniences have revolutionized this, leaving the foundries clear of all except the common hand-truck and wheelbarrow. See IRON-CARRIER; CRANES.

Trunnions are cylindrical projections placed on each side of a flask in a position to balance it. the trunnion forms an axis to turn in a sling, or on a suitably contrived trestle, when the cope is turned over. A depression in the middle of the trunnion prevents the sling from slipping off. See SLING.

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