Handy man's workshop and laboratory . e strips firmly to the bed. Also fasten another strip near theend of the lathe bed and resting on bed to support the extensionand keep it in alinement with upper face of bed. A series ofholes may be drilled through the side strips so that a bolt maypass through same close to rear end of lathe bed which will 34 HANDY MANS WORKSHOP AND LABORATORY clamp the side strips rigidly to the sides of the lathe bed. Theconstruction makes it possible to draw out the extension to any-desired degree. The writer has found this to be a very usefulattachment.—60 THE SCROLL-
Handy man's workshop and laboratory . e strips firmly to the bed. Also fasten another strip near theend of the lathe bed and resting on bed to support the extensionand keep it in alinement with upper face of bed. A series ofholes may be drilled through the side strips so that a bolt maypass through same close to rear end of lathe bed which will 34 HANDY MANS WORKSHOP AND LABORATORY clamp the side strips rigidly to the sides of the lathe bed. Theconstruction makes it possible to draw out the extension to any-desired degree. The writer has found this to be a very usefulattachment.—60 THE SCROLL-SAW The following description of a scroll-saw was given to thewriter by a first-class mechanic, who assured him that it was oneof the most useful articles he had in his shop; and judging bythe number of times it was borrowed for cutting many shapes ofornamental woodwork, which can generally be found in almostany kind of house building, it spoke well for the mechanic andthe efficiency of the saw. Brackets up to 3 inches in thickness. Fig. 38—General side view of the scroll-saw were easily cut out, and all the ornamental scroll work on theoutside of his beautiful frame house. A general side view of the saw is given in Fig. 38, while thelathe described in a foregoing article, page 27, is shown indotted lines attached to the saw. The other illustrations, to 44, give various details and sections. The reference let-ters, from A to Z, are duplicated on each figure, and tend ratherto make an otherwise very simply constructed mechanism appearcomplicated. While the proper sizes of lumber will be given, there is no HANDY MAN S WORKSHOP AND LABORATORY 35 reason why every part of the saw cannot be made from suchmaterial as may be found around almost any house. It will be noticed that the framework consists of but threedifferent sections of timber and i-inch boards. The bottomframework is 2 feet 6 inches wide and 8 feet in length over height from the floor to the top of t
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