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Babbit Metal
Melt 4 #bs [pound] Copper. Add by degrees
Babbit 12 #bs [pounds] Best tin, 8 #bs [pounds] Regulas
Metal of Antimony, and then 12 #bs [pounds] more
tin. After 4 or 5 #bs [pounds] of the last
quantity of tin, has been added,
reduce the heat to a dull red,
and add the remainder Dec 6 1873
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Circumferance of Circle
Multiply the diameter by 9 5/10 and
divide by 3. To fine the area
Circles of the same circle, take 7/9 of
the square of the diameter. Having
the circumference, to find the diameter
divide the circumferance by 19 and
multiply the quotient by 6
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Test for Gold & [and] Silver
Test A piece of Lunar Caustic fixed
for in the pointed End of Stick.
Gold Slightly wet the metal to be tested
and rub it gently with the
Caustic. If gold or Silver, the
mark will be faint, but if any
inferior metal, it will be quite
black
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Cement for Pipes
Cement For Gas or Steam pipes. Powdered
Graphite 6 parts, Slaked Lime 3 parts,
Sulphate of Lime 8 parts. Boiled oil
7 parts, well kneaded
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Cheap Paint
Break and Egg into a dish and
Paint beat it slightly, use the white
only if for white paint. Then
stir in coloring to suit. Red
Lead makes good red paint.
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Cure for Whooping Cough
XX gtt [20 drops] Ol. Terebinth on a cloth held
Whooping in front of the face, for a child when
Cough awake If asleep drop the oil on the
pillow. No danger, no matter age
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Transfer Pictures
Cover the ground with an even coat of
light colored carriage varnish, which
To should be allowed to set nearly as dry as
Transfer if for gilding. If the print to be used
Pictures is colored, soak it in Salt & [and] Water.
If not colored use water alone.
Remove superfluous water by pressing
between blotting pads, and then place
the picture face down upon the varnish
pressing it smooth. When the vrnish is
dry, dampen the paper and rub it
off with the finger. Can be used
on glass or metal surfaces. After it
is all dry, put on another coat of
varnish to finish it
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To Clean Tin
To On Tin use potash lye and rub with
Clean a hard substance. On Copper or Brass
Tin use Spirit of Tar
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Size of Nails
Nails 4 penny means 4 #bs [pounds] to the thousand
nails. 6 penny 6 #bs [pounds] to thousand and
so on. Comes from old English four
pound Ct. which was corrupted to penny
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