The boy craftsman; practical ad profitable ideas for a boy's leisure hours . If it is impossible to locate your dark-room where itwill be supplied with running water, the best scheme is A Water-tank with hose attachment. This is shownin Fig. 169. To carry it out, procure from your grocera half-barrel, such as is used for the shipment of saltmackerel, etc., and, after thoroughly cleaning it, borea hole in the side about two inches from the at a drug-store several feet of rubber tubing, arubber stopper with a hole cut in the centre, two pinch-stops, a six-inch piece of glass tubing be
The boy craftsman; practical ad profitable ideas for a boy's leisure hours . If it is impossible to locate your dark-room where itwill be supplied with running water, the best scheme is A Water-tank with hose attachment. This is shownin Fig. 169. To carry it out, procure from your grocera half-barrel, such as is used for the shipment of saltmackerel, etc., and, after thoroughly cleaning it, borea hole in the side about two inches from the at a drug-store several feet of rubber tubing, arubber stopper with a hole cut in the centre, two pinch-stops, a six-inch piece of glass tubing bent at rightangles, and a small glass funnel. Slip one end of thebent piece of glass tubing into the rubber stopper, andstick the latter in the hole made in the barrel. Thenslip a short piece of the rubber tubing over the glasstubing, and place one of the pinch-stops on it to beused in regulating the supply of water from the tank(see Fig. 171). Set the barrel on one end of the table,and run the rubber tubing through a hole cut for itin the work-table. A BOYS DARK-ROOM 157. Fig. 169. — A Well-equipped Dark-room. It Is advisable to filter the water used from thebarrel, that you may be sure it is free from dirt, so an 158 PROFITABLE PASTIMES arrangement similar to that shown in Fig. 171 shouldbe fastened below the work-table. It consists of a glassfunnel set in a hole bored in a block of wood (see A inFig. 171), which is suspended from the bottom of thework-table by means of a stick {B), one end of which isnailed to block A and the other end to the a piece of filter-paper in the funnel. The rubbertubing should be cut just long enough to reach thefunnel, and the bottom of this filter should come withinan inch or two of the sink, which will be set in the shelfbelow. You will find an iron drip-pan about as cheap A Sink as can be had, considering that one twelve byseventeen inches will cost you just fifty cents — twenty-five cents for the pan and an equal amount to
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