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Soldering, Brazing and Welding
EDITOR’S PREFACE
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I The Various Processes of Joining Metals
CHAPTER II Soft Solders
Eutectic Alloys.
Hardness of Solders.
Compositions of Soft Solders.
Making Solder Strips, Wire, Tears, etc.
Making Solder from Pewter.
Making Coarse Solder from Composition Piping.
Combined Solder and Flux.
Soft Solders that Melt in Boiling Water.
Re-melting and Overheating Solder.
CHAPTER III Fluxes Used in Soft-soldering
Why a Flux is Required.
Variety of Fluxes.
Preparing Zinc Chloride (“Killed Spirit”).
Applying the Flux.
Flux Used on Food Containers.
CHAPTER IV Soft-soldering with the Copper Bit
Copper Bits.
Spirit-Heated Soldering Bits.
Gas-heated Bits.
Stoves for Heating Soldering Bits.
Tinning a Bit.
Simple Soldering.
Reinforced and Filled-in Soldered Joints.
Soldering Heavy Milk Churns.
Soldering Hole in Enamelled Ware.
Soldering Leaded Lights.
Soldering Catch on Gun-barrel.
CHAPTER V Soft-soldering with Blowpipe or Bunsen Burner
The Mouth Blowpipe.
Bunsen Burner, Spirit Lamps, etc.
Bench Blowpipes.
Tapers.
Catching-tray for Bunsen Burner.
Blow Lamps.
How to Operate a Mouth Blowpipe.
Typical Blowpipe Jobs.
Re-soldering Kettle Spout.
Soldering Corroded Metal.
Soldering Small Work.
Soldering Pipe Joints.
Soldering Birdcage Wires.
Sweating.
CHAPTER VI Soldering Aluminium
Solders for Aluminium.
Fluxes for Aluminium.
The Soldering Bit.
The Process of Soldering Aluminium.
Soldering Aluminium to Copper or Brass.
CHAPTER VII Wiping Joints on Lead Pipes
Plumbers’ Solder.
Flux.
The Cloths.
Horizontal or Underhand Joints.
Upright Joints.
Wiped Joint between Lead and Cast-iron Pipes.
CHAPTER VIII Hard-soldering with Silver Solder
Silver Solder.
Requisites for Silver-soldering.
Preparing the Borax Flux.
The Method of Silver-soldering.
Soldering Small Work with Paillons.
Larger Work.
Quenching Silver-soldered Work.
Removing Soldering Marks.
CHAPTER IX Soldering Gold and Silver Jewellery
CHAPTER X Brazing
Spelter.
The Flux.
The Method.
Brazing-lamps.
Gas Blowpipe for Brazing.
Making a Gas Brazing Hearth.
Brazing Iron and Steel.
Brazing Copper Rod.
Brazing Key Stems.
Cycle Brazing.
Brazing Cast-iron.
CHAPTER XI Welding Iron and Steel under the Hammer
Welding of Steel Specially Considered.
CHAPTER XII Making Blowpipes
A Simple Gas Blowpipe.
Proportion of Air to Gas.
Capacities of Blowpipes.
Large and Efficient Blowpipe.
CHAPTER XIII Managing Blow-lamps
CHAPTER XIV Making Blow-lamps
CHAPTER XV Electric and Thermit Welding Briefly Considered
Arc Welding.
CHAPTER XVI Oxy-Acetylene Welding
Welding Copper.
Welding Aluminium.
Welding Cast-Iron.
CHAPTER XVII Lead Burning
INDEX
Transcriber’s Notes
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