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The practical metal-worker's assistant : containing the arts of working all metals and alloys, forging of iron and steel, hardening and tempering, melting and mixing, casting and founding, works in sheet metal, the processes dependent on the ductility of the metals, soldering, and the most improved processes, and tools employed by metal-workers, with the application of the art of electro-metallurgy to manufacturing processes : collected from original sources, and from the works of Holtzapffel, Bergeron, Leupold, Plumier, Napier, and others ... (1851)

Byrne, Oliver · Philadelphia : H.C. Baird · leaf 246

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ng, are soldered with the copper-bit or copper-bolt represented in Figs. 249 and 250; they are pieces of copperweighing from three or four ounces to as many pounds, riveted intoiron shanks and fitted with wooden handles. All the works in tin-ned iron, sheet zinc, and many of those in copper and… … 248. 250. If the copper-bit have not been previously tinned, it is heated ina small charcoal stove or otherwise to a dull red, and hastily filedto a clean metallic surface; it is then rubbed immediately, first upona lump of sal-ammoniac, and next upon a copper or tin plate, uponwhich a few drops of…

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