Painters' colours, oils, and varnishes : a practical manual (1906)
Hurst, George H. (George Henry) · London : Charles Griffin & Company · leaf 341
res a cheap material, water, and the cheapest kind of colour plant, tanks, for carrying it out. The details of the plant required or used in levigating at any particular works depends upon many factors, such as the position of the works, whether situated in the centre of a town, in a wide valley,… … Fig. 28. — Levigating plant. levigating ochres, umbers, &c. It consists of 9 tanks, 8 of which are arranged in 2 series of 4, while the ninth is an odd tank. Another good arrangement would be one of 10 tanks, 9 arranged in 3 sets of 3, the tenth being an odd one. In the odd tank, A, the crude…
Paint · Varnish and varnishing
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