The Mechanic's Companion: Or, The Elements and Practice of Carpentry, Joinery, Bricklaying, Masonry, Slating, Plastering, Painting, Smithing, and Turning, Comprehending the Latest Improvements and Containing a Full Description of the Tools Belonging to Each Branch of Business, with Copious Directions for Their Use, an Explanation of the Terms Used in Each Art and an Introduction to Practical Geometry

Peter Nicholson

F. Bell, 1853 - Building - 362 pages

Contents

• The long plane: 11
• Flat tools: 17
• Through a given point to draw a line parallel: 20
• Practical problems: 24
• Squaremouthed rebating planes: 26
• To fix one piece of timber to another form: 27
• To divide a line in the same proportion as: 28
• Definition: 31
• Tools ib 3 Of saws ib 4 The axe: 32
• The adze: 33
• The socket chisel ib 7 The firmer chisel: 34
• The ripping chisel ib 9 The gimlet ib 10 The auger: 35
• The gauge: 36
• The level ib 13 To adjust the level: 37
• The plumb rule: 38
• The hammer: 39
• The mallet: 40
• The beetle or mawl ib 18 The crow ib 19 The tenfoot rod ib 20 The hook pin: 41
• The carpenters square: 42
• Operations ib 23 To join two pieces which are to form four angles and the surfaces of one piece or both parallel and perpendicular to those of the ot...: 43
• The drawing knife: 44
• Of foundations and timbers in joisting and walling: 49
• The tenon: 50
• Stud work and plaster buildings: 51
• Description of a table of scantling: 52
• The table of bearing posts: 53
• Observations on the table ib 38 Table of girders: 55
• Table of bridging joists ib 40 Table of binding joists: 56
• Table of beams ib 42 Table of principal rafters: 57
• Table of purlines ib 44 Observations: 58
• Tools: 60
• Dovetailing notching c: 61
• Flooring: 62
• Girder joists scarfing c: 64
• Framing for a wooden house: 65
• Law regulating buildings in the city of NewYork: 67
• Definitions: 72
• Lien Law: 76
• Index and explanation of terms used in carpentry: 78
• Hanging of doors: 84
• Geometrical stairs: 90
• Definition: 219
• Problems respecting arches and methods: 230
• Strength of arches: 235
• Definition: 242
• Definitions and tools: 255
• Definition: 260
• Description of the forge ib 2 The anvil: 261
• The tongs ib 4 Hammers ib 5 The vice: 262
• The hand vice ib 7 The plyers ib 8 Drills: 263
• Screw plates: 264
• Shears ib 11 Saws ib 12 Of forging ib 13 Of heats ib 14 To punch a hole: 267
• Filing and polishing ib 16 To cut thick iron plate to any figure: 268
• Riveting: 269
• To rivet a pin to a plate or piece of iron ib 19 To make small screwbolts and nuts ib 20 Of iron steel cast steel c: 271
• Perspective view of a smiths work shop showing a double forge with its apparatus and some tools in general use: 275
• Description of the Nature of Steam of the principle of: 317
• Mechanical Portions of the Steamengine with their rela: 325
• 22: 350
• Tools: 355
• Tools: 357

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Mechanic's Companion: Or, The Elements and Practice of Carpentry, Joinery, Bricklaying, Masonry, Slating, Plastering, Painting, Smithing, and Turning, Comprehending the Latest Improvements and Containing a Full Description of the Tools Belonging to Each Branch of Business, with Copious ...
• Author: Peter Nicholson
• Publisher: F. Bell, 1853
• Original from: The Ohio State University
• Digitized: Aug 8, 2013
• Length: 362 pages