All joints in cast-iron pipe must be made with picked oakum and molten lead and caulked gas-tight.
These fittings and pipe are joined by first caulking with oakum and pouring, with one continuous pour, the hub full of molten metal.
When it hardens, it becomes very hard and makes a tight joint which overcomes the objections to lead and oakum joints.
If the oakum used comes in a bale, pieces of it will have to be taken and rolled into long ropes about 18 inches long, the thickness of the rope corresponding with the space between the hub and the pipe.
A little oakumis packed in the hub to steady the pipe and keep sand out, the bottom of joint is cemented, a piece of tar paper can be laid over the top of the joint to keep the sand out.
After the oakum is well packed into place and the pipe is lined up and made straight, molten lead is poured in and the hub filled.
This piece of oakum is forced to the bottom of the hub, then another piece is put in.
A wad of oakum is taken and forced into the hub with the yarning iron.
The plumber is called upon to run cast-iron pipe in places where lead and oakum will not be of service for the joints.
The oakum is set and packed by using the yarning iron and hammer.
To caulk a joint in a position of this kind, the pipe is lined up and secured, then the oakum is put in and forced to the bottom of the hub.
If rope oakum is used, the strands of the rope can be used.
Half of the space between the hub and the pipe is first packed with oakum and then the other half filled with cement of the same proportions as that used above.
The oakum is forced tight enough to make a water-tight joint.
The clerk, or scribe, was a dandy of the first water: he had on a small raree hat, which looked as if it had been forced up on one side by an immense crop of oakum curls, which sprouted most luxuriantly from under one of the rims.
It is absolutely impossible for any accident to exempt you from commencing your career for one month in these wards; it rests, however, with yourself whether you pick oakum or find a substitute.
The man who actually picked my oakum was the “cleaner,” a privileged individual with a roving commission.
I must mention one incident connected with my “three card” acquaintance before leaving the oakum district.
The oakumshed finds employment for about a dozen men.
This particular ward, together with the two in its immediate vicinity, is principally devoted to fresh arrivals; bed is the exception andoakum is the rule.
The oakum is used only to keep the lead in the joint until it cools.
The pipes are set in place and a roll of oakum is packed into the bottom of the joint, after which molten lead is poured into the joint, filling it completely.
From the tuft of oakum which he had flung at Smirre the fire had spread to the bed-hangings.
Some thinking they would catch the plague, dipped oakum in coal-tar, and at intervals held it to their nostrils.
I think of it, he's always wanting oakum to stuff into the toes of his boots.
Fedallah; tail coiled out of sight as usual, oakum in the toes of his pumps as usual.
Wads may be made of pickedoakum twisted in a flat spiral to the proper size of the bore, when they are made to retain their shape by being secured here and there with fine twine passed through with the needle.
The floor was carefully caulked with plaster of Paris and common paste, on this was laid a stratum of Manilla oakum 2in.
No, potaties is the essence of lobscous; and a very good thing is a potatie, Sir Jarvy, when a ship's company has been on salted oakum for a few months.
With me, oakum answers for one, and canvass for the other.
I calked the seams the best way I could, but the wood's a bit rotten, and there's always danger that the oakum may work loose.
Luckily for us, you insisted on our carrying a bunch of that oakum along, Frank.
The planks will hold, but I'm not so sure about the oakum I pounded into the open seams.
Nothing remarkable had happened except that on several occasions they were compelled to bail out, and had once to stop in order to pound more oakum into an opening that appeared in one of the seams of the boat.
It hasn't been used for some years, and is apt to be in poor shape, but I've got some oakum and a calking tool.
Renewed recommendations to provide employment resulted in the provision of a certain amount of oakum for picking, and one or two men were allowed to mend clothes and make shoes.
There should be no tea and sugar, no assemblage of female felons around the washing-tub, nothing but beating hemp and pulling oakum and pounding bricks—no work but what was tedious, unusual.
Old ropes are converted into oakum by untwisting and picking them to pieces.
The oakum thus produced is driven into the seams of vessels, to render them water-tight.
It was a clumsy affair, and they were glad that they had enough oakum and pitch along to make her fairly water-tight.
No want of oakum to fill up the chinks with, either.
The material to be fired was composed of oakummixed with gunpowder, canvas saturated with oil, and bundles of shavings kept together with pieces of iron hoop.
The operation is as follows: A sail is stretched out and masses of oakum are fastened on to one side, so as to give it the appearance of a large rug of great thickness.
One of them oakum eaters, that s what he was--an oakum eater.
The powder crackled, fizzed, and spluttered and spilled out the excess of gasolene from the flaming oakum balls so that streams of fire dripped down on the main deck beneath.
And Roy applied the sparkling port-fire to the bit of prepared oakum standing out of the touch-hole, with the result that it, too, began to sparkle and fume.
He handed a piece of the prepared oakum to one of the men, who ran off with it, and directly after Roy stepped back quickly and hurried into the house.
If wrapped in cotton or oakum they are generally defaced.
Tarred canvas or oakum should be prepared to shove into the shot-holes before the patches of board or lead are nailed on.
We have a teacher from the Red Cross rooms who is showing the older girls how to make oakum pads.
Boys under 14 are able to pick over oakum and to do other work that girls of the same age can do.
A coat of black pitch dissolved with wax and Venice turpentine, and kept in place over the region with oakum or linen bands, will be all the treatment required, especially if the animal is kept quiet in the slings.
The horse should be shod with a leather sole under the shoe, first of all applying tar and oakum to prevent any dirt from entering the wound.
In applying the dressing the leg is usually padded with a cushion of oakum thick and soft enough to equalize the irregularities of the surface and to form a bedding for the protection of the skin from chafing.
In obstinate cases a piece of caustic potash (fused) 1 to 2 inches in length may be introduced into the opening and should be covered with oakum or cotton.
This may be done by inserting well into the incision a piece of oakum or cotton saturated with turpentine, carbolic acid, tincture of iodin, etc.
When the granulations look red, dress the wound with oakum balls saturated in a weak solution of tincture of aloes or spirits of camphor and apply a roller bandage.
After a few days the wound will be covered with a new, white horn, and only the oakum and bandages will be needed.
The cavity should then be well washed out and a plug of oakum introduced, leaving a small portion protruding through the cut to prevent it from closing prematurely.
When the slough is all detached, the remaining wound is to be treated with simple stimulating dressings, such as tincture of aloes or turpentine, oakum balls, and bandages as directed in punctured wounds.
The diseased parts being well covered with the balls, a pad of oakum sufficiently thick to cause considerable pressure is placed over them, and all are held in place by pieces of heavy tin fitted to slip under the shoe.
The cleft of the frog and the grooves on its edges are then to be cleaned and well filled with dry calomel and the foot dressed with oakum and a roller bandage.
Ulcers are to be treated by the application of stimulating dressings, such as carbolized oil, a 1 per cent solution of nitrate of silver or of chlorid of zinc, with pads of oakum and flannel bandages.
Some oakum was forced through the joints of the staves, and the water was partly checked.
Aware that we had passed the gravel, it was of course expected that we were under the clay; means were therefore resorted to, to drive clay and oakum at the tail of the top staves, which was productive of a very good effect.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oakum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cotton; fiber; nylon; thread; wool
