. Modern blacksmithing, rational horse shoeing and wagon making; with rules, tables, recipes, etc. .. . is a bad idea. It is claimed that, in welding, thelandside point will swell enough to make it reach upagainst the plate. This is true, if the landside point isonly high enough; but if it is low and you lose a heatin welding, as most smiths do, then your landside pointwill be both too low and too short. Thousands ofshares are made every year that have this , whatever you are doing have stock is easy to cut off from the landside while yet hot,but it is diffi
. Modern blacksmithing, rational horse shoeing and wagon making; with rules, tables, recipes, etc. .. . is a bad idea. It is claimed that, in welding, thelandside point will swell enough to make it reach upagainst the plate. This is true, if the landside point isonly high enough; but if it is low and you lose a heatin welding, as most smiths do, then your landside pointwill be both too low and too short. Thousands ofshares are made every year that have this , whatever you are doing have stock is easy to cut off from the landside while yet hot,but it is difficult to repair if too short. No share willwork steadily if the point does not rest right againstthe plate. In blacksmithing, every beginner, and many an oldsmith, makes the mistake of providing less stock thanis needed for the work to be done. It is essential to lOO MODERN BLACKSMITHING have material to dress down on; and if a heat is lost,or a weld, it will make the stock in the article weaker,and to meet these exigencies there must be materialfrom the start, enough for all purposes. There is also. ^^-» a wide difference of opinion as to whether the shareshould be welded at the point or at the joint I was yet a young man and employed in a plowfactory, I had an opportunity to see the different ideasset to a test. In the factory the practice was to weld MODERN BLACKSMITHING loi the point first. A plowman from another State wasengaged, and he claimed that it would be better to weldthe share first up at the joint. He was given a chanceto prove his assertion, and the result was that 3 percent of his shares broke over the inner side of thelandside at the joint in the hardening, and 10 per centripped up in the weld at the same place. These areresults that will always follow this method. The first, because the share was not upset over theweld; the second, because a good weld cannot betaken unless the share is dressed down snug againstthe point when hot. As far as the numb
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