The Practical Brass and Iron Founder's Guide: A Concise Treatise on Brass Founding, Moulding, the Metals and Their Alloys, Etc

James Larkin

H.C. Baird, 1866 - Brass founding - 301 pages

Contents

• On the Properties of the Metals: 19
• On Metallic Alloys: 32
• Conducting Powers of Metals: 38
• Copper: 45
• On Lead: 51
• Alloys of Copper and Zinc: 57
• Princess Metal: 61
• On Figure Casting: 70
• To Transfer Engravings to Plaster Casts: 77
• Dr Daltons Fusible Alloy: 80
• A Composition for Ornaments: 86
• Yellow Brass: 92
• On Friction: 98
• Fluidity: 104
• Copper and Antimony: 109
• Green Bronze Liquid: 117
• Direct Cohesion of Metals: 124
• Gold Coin of America Alloy: 129
• Plumbers Solder: 135
• Remarks: 142
• On Zinc as a Protective Covering for Iron and the Adap: 152
• On Chlorine: 173
• To Brown Gun Barrels: 179
• Carbonate of Iron Bronze: 185
• Antidote to Arsenic: 191
• Cement for Attaching Metal to Glass: 198
• Etching Varnish: 204
• On Washing Sweepings Ashes etc from Brass Foun: 214
• On Casehardening Iron: 218
• Tin and Iron: 224
• Table of Comparative Strength of CastIron: 232
• Table of Comparative Strength of WroughtIron: 240
• On the Strength of Materials By C A Lee Co 252: 252
• On the Strength of Iron CastIron: 259
• Composition for Silvering Brass: 267
• To Silver Brass: 283
• Static Pressure of Water under different Heads: 289
• Tutenag: 295
• tation of the Process of ElectroDeposition for that Pur: 297
• 127: 300
• To Preserve Polished Steel from Rust: 301

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Practical Brass and Iron Founder's Guide: A Concise Treatise on Brass Founding, Moulding, the Metals and Their Alloys, Etc
• Author: James Larkin
• Edition: 5
• Publisher: H.C. Baird, 1866
• Original from: Columbia University
• Digitized: Oct 13, 2009
• Length: 301 pages