Brackets of cast iron, for holding the axle to the floor, are made in the foundry.
For this purpose a small stove seemed desirable, and the result was a small disc stove made of cast iron, highly nickel plated and polished.
At first the iron was heavy and clumsy, being built of cast iron, but modern manufacture has made it possible to build the sole plate of cast iron and the top of pressed steel.
Cast iron is brittle, and unreliable when used to sustain tensile stresses, and it cannot be forged; but wrought iron can be safely used in tension, is not brittle, and can be forged.
The raw material from which steel is made is cast iron or wrought iron.
Ordinary cast ironcontains iron and about 3 per cent of carbon.
The lump of cast iron as it leaves the furnace has many processes to go through before it becomes fit for making a knife.
And now, having seen what is required to produce a "pig" of cast iron, let us return to the knife, whose course of manufacture we traced a little way.
The beautiful iron bridge of Colebrook-dale, erected in 1779, consumed three hundred and seventy-eight tons of cast iron.
The early boilers were made of copper or cast iron, with leaden or even wooden tops, and of the weakest possible shape.
They were made first with flat ends of cast iron, which frequently cracked and gave way when exposed to the fire, as described in many of the early American explosions.
The mortar consists of a solid cylinder of cast iron, one end of which has been bored to a depth of 9 inches, the diameter of the bore being 4 inches.
The dipping tank is made of cast iron, and holds 220 lbs.
Cast iron is more employed in artificial fire than forged iron or steel, at least in the preparation of some, as gerbes, white fountains, and Chinese fire.
Mr. Snodgrass, in the last work, gave an account of a method of communicating heat by steam, by using pipes of cast iron, for which the society of arts voted him forty guineas.
This cannot be the case in forging large barrels, as the workmen cannot use hammers heavy enough; consequently the barrel is turned out of hand with the pores more open than a piece of cast iron.
It is made of cast iron, coated with lead, and is fired from the gun with a charge of 10 ounces of powder; it contains a small cavity in the centre, and may be used either as a shot or a shell.
By means of a rotating table either two surfaces of glass, or one surface of glass and one of cast iron, are rubbed together with the interposition of a powerful abrasive such as sand, emery or carborundum.
Bottle moulds are made of cast iron, either in two pieces, hinged together at the base or at one side, or in three pieces, one forming the body and two pieces forming the neck.
It is common practice to cast the water jackets integral with the cylinders, if cast iron or aluminum is used, and this is also the most economical method of applying it because it gives good results in practice.
These cylinders are cast of aluminum, instead of cast iron, as is customary, and are provided with steel or cast iron cylinder liners forced in the soft metal casting bores.
The best grades of cast iron or steel should be used in the cylinder and piston and the machine work must be done very accurately so the piston will operate with minimum friction in the cylinder.
In the built-up construction the head is usually of high nickel steel or cast iron, which metals possess good heat-resisting qualities.
It is made either directly from the ore, as in the Catalan forge or bloomery, or by purifying (puddling) cast iron in a reverberatory furnace or refinery.
Defn: Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct process from the ore.
Defn: An oblong mass of cast iron, lead, or other metal.
Fleming for the hysteresis loss in the sample of cast iron, the permeability test of which is recorded in Table IV.
Observations on the Magnetic Hysteresis of Cast Iron.
The magnetic permeability of cast iron is much inferior to that of wrought or ingot-iron, or the mild steels taken at the same flux densities.
The T-head may be of cast iron, but the spindle should be steel, with a brass nut let in the back end for the screw to work in.
Cast iron is not good, and steel is not so good as wrought iron.
To one end of the body a cap is secured, and to the other end a rectangular cast iron frame is fitted, to which a cast iron door is hinged.
Do you think it would be safe to have them made of cast iron?
The reaction you note is taken advantage of to cheaply copper plate small articles of cast iron.
The stamp is of simple construction, somewhat like a pile driver, the mould and face of the ram being made of cast iron.
It consists of a cast ironfunnel c d i of the elevation, (fig.
Dam Plate is a large flat plate of cast iron placed on its edge against the front of the furnace, with a stone cut sloping and placed on the inside.
The oldest piece of cast iron which Mr. Mushet states he ever saw, exhibited the arms of England, with the initials E.
Mr. Fairbairn's experiments on cast ironin a heated state, it is not necessary that the fusing point should be attained to cause it to give way.
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