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 48
k; with which view he willneither grasp its handle close against the head of the hammer, norat the extreme end of the handle, but at that intermediate pointwhere he finds it comfortably to rebound from the anvil, with theleast effort of, or jar to his wrist. And the height of the wrist mustalso be… … It would be desirable practice to hammer a bar of cold iron, orstill better one of steel, as there would be more leisure for observa-tion, the indentations of the hammer could be easily noticed ; and ifthe work, especially steel, were held too tightly, or without restingfairly on the anvil, it…
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