. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . nd seven or eight inches in marks from surfaces requiring to be In spite of the fact that the air ham- length. The Hat faces of the chisel perfectly smomer is coming rapidly into general use, should be on a perfect plane with one In chipping, care should be taken to it is not at all likely that the use of the of the sides of the octagon, and the direct the eye on the cutting edge ofold-fashioned hammer and chisel will dressed portion between two and three the chisel. Directing the attention t
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . nd seven or eight inches in marks from surfaces requiring to be In spite of the fact that the air ham- length. The Hat faces of the chisel perfectly smomer is coming rapidly into general use, should be on a perfect plane with one In chipping, care should be taken to it is not at all likely that the use of the of the sides of the octagon, and the direct the eye on the cutting edge ofold-fashioned hammer and chisel will dressed portion between two and three the chisel. Directing the attention toever become a lost art. A good chip- inches from the cutting edge of the tin head ni the chisel cannot fail toper is a sure sign of an accomplished chisel. Experience speedily determines lead to disaster. As we stated at the outset, however, nothing can take theplace of a trying experience, and it isonly after long, laborious efforts thatthe hand and eye and hammer andchisel work in perfect unison, and therhythmic cadence of successive blowsalways marks the master machinist, thesculptor in machinist. A mastery of the art doesnot come to any one over night. Itcan only be acquired by steady prac-tice, and is generally accompanied bywounds and bruises. The hand hold-ing the chisel usually suffers most. Amachinist, like Othello, could beguileus of our tears recounting the distress-ful strokes from which his youth suf-fered. The evil is frequently augment-ed by poor tools. Hammers unshapelyand ill balanced, chisels of poor steel,poorly dressed and ill tempered and im-properly ground form a combinationthat jar the delicate sensibilities of theunhappy apprentice, and each re-per-cussion piles on the agony, like Pelionon Ossa, until the weary nerves almostcry aloud in anguish. Shop-made, or home-made, hammersare almost always unfit for use, unlessit might be for cracking hickory hammers, where the me-chanical appliances used are perfect inform and structure,
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