Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 481
ot, and in some cases three-sixteenths. Theallowance usually made for the contraction of the casting is one-eighth of an inch per foot for brass 4G0 MOULDING. and one-tenth for cast iron. The shrinkage, however, is usually the most where there is the greatestbody of metal, and patterns are…
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