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First lessons in metal-working (1890)

Compton, Alfred G. (Alfred George), 1835-1913 · New York : J. Wiley & Sons · leaf 52

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38 FIRST LESSONS IN METAL-WOUKING, burn the piece. The pieces will have been widened in the process of scarfing, and are to be brought back partly to their original Avidth, by hammering on the sides. There should be, how- ever, some extra width left, to make up for the loss by burning, of which… … Fig. 27. Fig. 28. When the scarf has been thus prepared, bend the ends of the V round over the horn of the anvil as in Fig. 29, till they meet and overlap, as in Fig. 30, and hammer tliem, at a red heat, now on the face of the anvil and now on the horn, till they fit together closely. You are now…

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