The brassfounder's manual : instructions for the modelling, pattern-making, moulding, alloying, turning, filing, burnishing, bronzing, etc., etc. ... (1879)
Graham, Walter · London : Crosby Lockwood and Co. · leaf 55
aborate pieces of workmanship, and produce work of endless beauty. When work cannot be fixed to the chuck by screws, wedges, or spikes, it can be fastened by a cement composed of — 8 parts rosin, I i3art yellow wax, Brick dust, q. s. Rests, — These consist of two parts ; viz., the socket, with a… … Fig. 17.— Point up. Point clown. For many purposes light slide-rests are superior to the ordinary hand-rest figured above ; and as it is generally made self-acting, the work can often be left alone, to execute itself. The principle of the slide-rest consists in the tool being carried along the work…
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