This rod should be 10 inches or more in length, so that brads or wire may be passed through the ends outside the uprights to keep the axle in place.
Tack this leg by brads to the two hexagons, at each extreme end, driving brads only partly in, so that they can be easily withdrawn.
To make the cabinet more rigid, drive 1-inch brads into the shelves from the outside set and fill the holes.
This pen-holder was put together with 3/4-inch brads with the exception of the front, which was glued, as it was thought best not to have nails showing on this important side.
Next day, plane off any glue that may show, removing the two brads at the bottom, dressing down one side at a time until you have reached the last leg.
The paper holding the design is laid on a piece of pine 7/8 inch thick, and wire brads driven into the pine up close to the inlay to hold the design together while it dries.
The seat and seat-back are afterward put in place with brads and the steering-gear glued in position against the dash-board.
Two brads were also driven through the back into the shelf.
Put it in place with 3/4-inch brads and glue, and carefully remove any trace of glue that may appear, before it hardens.
The two cleats were inserted in the ends of the ocean and fastened with brads and glue.
The location of these brads can be such that only one hole will be left in the blade to be filled up afterward.
To increase the strength of a letter rack, 3/4-inch brads can be driven from the bottom into the partitions, but where this is done it is safer to draw pencil lines on the bottom directly under the centre of each partition.
To drivebrads thru lead, pinch them between the thumb and finger, and drive them gently.
Remove the house; drive three brads straight down thru the floor; pull them out and start them from the under side in the same holes; then put the house in place again and drive the brads home.
Holes will have to be bored carefully for either brads or screw.
Two brads may now be driven near the center of the ridge-pole to hold the roofs together.
The cleat (a device for fastening a "rope" in any position, by winding it back and forth) is simply two slender brads driven slanting.
Keep thebrads near the center of the uprights lest they split the curves.
Drive the spool brads a trifle into the shaft to hold the spool in position.
Use brads for fastening the side pieces to the paddle ends.
Drive a couple of brads through the two sticks to hold them together, and then reinforce the connection by wrapping the joint with strong linen thread, crossing the thread in the manner shown.
Slip the free ends of the paddles into the other can cover, and carefully drive tacks or brads through the cover into them.
Fasten with tacks or brads driven through the cover into the ends of the strips.
With the pieces cut out, fasten them together with brads and glue, placing the seat between the arms and back so that it is an inch and one-half above the base.
Fasten the pieces to the cradle box with brads driven through the box bottom into their top edge.
These brads should run through the outer box into the bottom of the inner box, and should be driven in carefully so as not to split the wood.
The arms and legs are pivoted on bradsdriven through the front of the body into the back.
Drive eight brads into a thread spool, spacing them equidistant from one another, and mount this spool upon the shaft (E, Fig.
Fasten it with brads to the top edges of the sides of the boat.
Bore a hole through each, a little below the top, and large enough so the shaft will turn easily, and fasten these supports with brads to the sides of base A.
Procure small brads and glue with which to fasten the pieces together.
Fasten the glass in the openings with small brads in the same way that glass is fastened in picture-frames, and putty it in the same way that window glass is puttied, to hold it firm.
Yes, they set in a light cushion sole, with a half dozen blade-pointed brads under it that would break through after a little use.
I accuse nobody, but I want to say right here and now, and I want everybody to hear me, that I'm going to ferret out the low sneak who put those brads in Bob Upton's shoes.
When this is dry, fasten in your plaque with brads driven into the back of the frame, and extending over the edge of the opening at its back.
After the surface is as smooth as it is possible to make it, oil the whole, and when dry put the three parts together withbrads and glue.
Push it in against the back ends of the runners, and fix it by picture brads driven in behind.
To one face nail a piece of strip lead as weight; and to the parallel face attach, by means of brads driven in near one edge, a piece of thin wood of the same size as the face.
As brads are likely to split the thin cigar-box wood, the staircases should be put together with glue.
Figure 93 shows the location of each piece, and with the aid of glue and some small brads it will be a simple matter to complete the mantel.
Fourpenny nails should be purchased for the rough carpenter work, and brads and glue for attaching finishing-strips and all light wood.
Sandpaper this slot smooth and then fasten the batten to the moulding with smallbrads driven in about 2 in.
Use brads at the ends and be careful that they do not enter the 1/4-in.
After cutting the windows and doors, put the box together again, with the brads which held it before, and laying it on to the platform board, so that each end of the board projects for a platform, nail them together.
Put piece F into the middle slot; put twobrads through each piece (BBF) and into the pointed one.
This is the reason that fine work is done with brads better than with tacks, for tacks are wedge-shaped on all sides, and in driving them if the wood is thin it is very apt to split.
Measure length of middle and side windows and cut the poles at the angle shown by the folded paper: a few brads will secure the slanting ends when they are neatly put together.
Take two pieces marked A; with inch-brads fasten pieces D endwise, so that upper face of D will be two and one eighth inches from end of A.
It consists of a wooden frame, in the two ends of which are fastened brads at intervals of half an inch.
Another disadvantage of the primitive loom is that the child must bend over it while weaving, and if, by chance, he turns it over to examine the other side of the work, the brads are apt to leave an unsightly impression on the desk.
The ends of the struts are pared to fit the posts and [Illustration: Rustic Seat and Details of Construction] rails, and are then secured with two or three brads at each end.
This will materially strengthen the joints where the wooden pieces are so thin that it is impossible to use brads in holding them together.
The glass-beaded fringe is attached on the inside of the bottom part with small brass rivets or brads placed about 3/4 in.
All screws and brads that are used must be of brass.
The 41 ribs may be nailed to the main frames on the upper side by using fine flat-headed brads 7/8 in.
The brads are then removed, the glass piece as shown by the dotted lines put in, and the leads around it held with brads until the crosspieces are put in and soldered.
Trap for Small Animals [82] This is a box trap with glass sides and back, the panes of glass being held in place by brads placed on both sides.
After the joints are soldered, the piece of glass F is put in place and the lead held withbrads as before until the cross leads are fitted and soldered.
Now the skin is put on the form to stay, fastening down the central line of the back with wire brads and drawn together at the junction of legs and body with stout stitches.
Get the skin on face and around mouth placed, then draw the neck skin tight and nail to the edge of the board with finishing brads an inch or more long.
One and a half or two inch wire brads are good to use in stretching skins, but 3d wire lath nails will do; the longer brads are more easily handled.
Pins and brads that will show are drawn out and others cut off level with the skin.
The skin may be fastened at the end of neck by pins orbrads driven all around the neck.
Gauge a line in the middle of each post at the top where the joints are to be made and press the end of a side rail containing the brads against the post.
Affix the braces just after filling, using brads and puttying the holes with putty colored to match the filler.
Pull out thebrads and bore holes for the dowel pins.
Illustration: Porch Chair Finished] The hand rests should be nailed to the arms with small nails or brads before the arms are bolted.
An American has lately procured a patent from Congress, for cutting brads out of sheet iron with an engine.
Use 7/8-inch brads or finishing nails, four in each pad or foot to fasten pads to the arms.
Fasten by two brads or small nails about 3/4 inch or 1 inch long, or glue it.
Brads or finishing nails should be used to hold the joint in place.
Drive the brads through from the under side of the base an eighth of an inch within the guiding line.
When all parts are cut out and well sandpapered glue them together and secure them by driving in the brads about an inch apart along the line of the seat and where the arms join the back.
Upon the surface of the block the caliper leg is held by brads or nails driven around its edge, as shown, or it is obvious screws may be used.
If the liners require to be very thin and are difficult to hold in the vice without springing, take a piece of soft wood faced true, and grip it in the vice, and fasten the liner on it by means of brads driven in around the edge of the liner.
Lamp-wick, paint, screws, and brads Miscellaneous fittings The actual expense necessary to construct the boat is very small.
The brass brads are placed about one inch apart the entire length of the boards.
In building up the hull with the planks, they should first be smeared with glue, and when put in place a few brass brads should be driven in.
Small brass brads are driven into the top of the pilot-house, and white adhesive tape is placed on the brads, as pictured.
If it were molasses you could fill it half full of brads before it would slop over.
It looks as though a few brads would do it, but it will take a lot.
About how many one-inch brads must I drop into the cup before the water overflows?
For answer the lecturer turned and drew a half-pint of water in a glass, brought from his pocket a box of brads and began dropping, one at a time and counting, them into the water.
The two base pieces are fastened onto the outside of the feet by three 1-1/2" brads driven in from each side.
Each axle is held to the platform by two staples which may be made from long brads by cutting off the heads.
Where possible, these brads should reach thru the parts just enough to be clenched on the other side (A, Fig.
Drive 1-1/2" brads thru the upper piece of the platform into the foot.
The string is held between two thicknesses of felt or cardboard that are fastened between the hands with two bradsto produce the required friction.
These brads fit loose thru the uprights near the top ends.
Bend back the ends of the nails, making loose joints, and drive the brads thru the neck into the second body piece, and clench.
When properly shaped and smooth, the bottom is fastened with 1" brads between the ends.
One-inch brads are driven thru the sides into the edges of the ends.
By driving the brads thru these holes, fasten all the cross pieces to one side, and watch that the brads go straight.
The two upright sticks are fastened to the cross piece by two 1" brads at each end, after the two holes are bored in the upper ends for the cord.
The pelican is fastened to the platform by placing the upper thickness against the foot, and driving 1-1/2" brads thru and up into the foot.
Fasten the parts together with small round-head brass brads or screws and finish to match the furniture.
Two smallbrads should be driven into the wooden base so as to prevent the possibility of the switch blades moving beyond their proper position.
The large end of each arm is made to hinge in a piece of tin with brads AA.
The ends of the wire are secured by winding them around the heads of brads driven into the core.
The axis D is a piece of wood fitted in the U-shaped piece of brass and made to turn on brads as bearings, the center being pierced to receive the end of the needle.
Illustration] Joints for Model Aeroplane In constructing model or toy aeroplanes the strips used are so slender that it is difficult to join them at the ends with brads without splitting them.
Nail one of these pieces with brads on each side of the 4" space left for the handle.
You can buy glazier's points, to hold the glass in position under the putty, for a trifle, or very smallbrads can be used.
Stick the bradsinto one piece where the centres of the holes should be.
To find the centres for boring, so that the holes bored in the two pieces shall be in line, you can cut off the heads of some small wire brads so that they will be pointed at both ends.
Strips of moulding can be nailed on with brads along the edges where the wire is fastened, the door can be fastened with hook and screw-eye or catch, and a handle fastened upon the top.
Then press this piece against the other in the position it is to take when the work is done and the brads will of course prick holes in the second piece exactly corresponding to those in the first piece (Fig.
The short spreaders are fastened to the corner sticks, 7 inches from the ends, with bradsdriven through the cleats, making the frame (as in Fig.
The long spreaders may be nailed to the corner sticks by driving brads right through the cloth into the cleats and the sticks.
Set these brads below the surface and fill the cavity with hard beeswax.
Later, when assembling, this joint is glued and 3/4" brads are driven in from the side to pin it in place, as indicated.
Attach the cross blocks to the base with glue and 3/4" brads and paint two coats of yellow.
Be sure every piece is in its proper position before driving in the brads and then be positive that no brad is being driven at a point where the dowel must be free to move in the hole.
Sand these five pieces and assemble, using 1-1/4" brads and glue.
It is a good plan to bore holes for these brads and thus prevent the possible splitting of the wood.
The upper works and hull are held together with 1" brads and glue, in such a manner that the gun turret is equally distant from the ends and sides of the hull.
All rails should be thoroughly sanded and then assembled with glue, screws, and brads as directed, the rails and legs being clamped for several hours to insure a tight fit.
The term brads was once confined to small finishing nails, but is now used for all finishing nails, in distinction from common or flat-headed nails.
In such a case, and also to prevent the top from slipping under pressure, a couple of small brads may be driven part way into the upper edges of the sides, the heads bitten off with the nippers, and points filed on the projecting portion.
Nails are also classified according to the shape of their heads; as, common or flat-heads, and brads or finishing nails.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "brads" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
