. Blakelee's industrial cyclopedia, a simple practical guide ... A ready reference and reservoir of useful information. More than two hundred illustrations. the requisites to success is patience. Do not go to work in a hurry,and do not be discouraged if the desired result is not at once obtained. Go HOW TO MAKE HAND SLEDS. slow, work with precision, and make everything you do look neat, or just asneat as you possibly can. Even in the sharpening of a pencil, learn to give atrue sloping cut. Do not try to work with dull tools. Grindstones and whet-stones are abundant, and in learning to sharpen
. Blakelee's industrial cyclopedia, a simple practical guide ... A ready reference and reservoir of useful information. More than two hundred illustrations. the requisites to success is patience. Do not go to work in a hurry,and do not be discouraged if the desired result is not at once obtained. Go HOW TO MAKE HAND SLEDS. slow, work with precision, and make everything you do look neat, or just asneat as you possibly can. Even in the sharpening of a pencil, learn to give atrue sloping cut. Do not try to work with dull tools. Grindstones and whet-stones are abundant, and in learning to sharpen tools, you are mastering oneof the important branches of the mechanical field. HOW TO MAKE HAND SLEDS. Coasting Sled.—A coasting or board runner sled may be manufacturedby any boy of ordinary mechanical genius. Take two boards three-quarters ofan inch thick, twenty-eight inches long and four inches wide. Shape the endsas illustrated, then bore three holes in each runner with a three-quarter auger,and three-quarters of an inch below the upper edge. Bore first hole threeinches from the rear top edge of runner, the other fifteen inches front of BOARD RUNNER OR COASTING SLED. and the third hole half way between the two. Next, just in front of the centerbeam hole, cue a place for the hand to grasp the sled when coasting. These handholes should be about an inch below the upper edge, four inches long, an inchand a quarter wide in the center, and rounded on the edge so as not to hurt thehand when hard pressed. Bore with quarter inch bit a hole through each run-ner, near the front or point for the drawing rope to be attached. The runnersare now ready for the beams. These should be of hard wood about one inchsquare. They should be cut twelve inches long and shouldered to fit the augerholes so that they are ten inches between the shoulders. When fitted, drive allthree into one side first, then put on the other runner. Fasten by putting ascrew down through from top edge of the run
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