Solder nipple, a short pipe, usually of brass, one end of which is tapered and adapted for attachment to the end of a lead pipe by soldering.
Hard solder, a solder which fuses only at a red heat, as one composed of zinc and copper, or silver and copper, etc.
It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal.
Plumbing) Defn: A tool for smoothing the solder joints of lead pipe.
A supply of resin-core electrician's solder will be needed.
Acid-core solder reacts with copper and in time causes a bad splice.
This vent is almost immediately closed with a single drop of solder and the cans are again returned to the tanks, where the same operation of cooking is repeated.
A single drop of solder closes the small opening, and the cans are ready for the retorts for sterilizing.
The copper bars are double riveted at either end to the resistance rings, then dipped into a solder bath.
The bars are pressed into holes punched in the end rings, and the contact is then protected from corrosion by being dipped in a solder bath.
There are several compounds on the market, consisting of soft solder in powder form, ready-mixed with flux.
In soldering, for instance, solderpieces of brass together until you learn to make a joint.
If you want to make it yourself bend your copper round a wooden roller and rivet or solder together--riveting is the best if you can get it tight.
Then bend it up to the steam tap, and solder them carefully in position; this will hold the after end of the boiler firm.
Then solder the two edges together and cut two ends to fit; push them in and solder in place.
Then solder a piece across each end, about half an inch deep, and the frame is ready for the wheels.
When filing solder use only an old worn file as a good one soon fills up.
You might be able to solder in that way but the joint would not hold, but fall apart at the first pressure or slight blow.
Solder it firmly in position from the outside to prevent the flame from touching any soldered portion.
Take out the cans, drop solder on the opening, and all will be air-tight.
It is usually recommended to solder on the cover, which is simply a square piece of tin large enough to cover the orifice.
Fill the cans and solder on the top, leaving an opening as large as a pin-head, from which steam may escape.
Solder for tin plates, is made of one or two parts of tin, and one of lead.
Select the thickest sheets of tin and solder them together by their narrowest sides, until as many lengths are made as, when laid side by side, will be sufficient for the whole length and breadth of the figure.
The oxide has to be removed also from the surface of the material that is to be united; it is the chief obstacle to successful soldering, as the solder refuses to unite with anything but pure metal.
Put on a little powdered resin, and thensolder neatly by drawing the heated iron, with the solder clinging to it, over the joint.
The first point is to make a little of the melted solder stick to the point of the iron.
Bore a hole through the centre, insert a piece of wire for a shaft, and solder it fast at right angles to the wheel.
Bend each piece at right angles along the dotted line, and solder them one after another on the circumference of the wheel, which will then appear as in the picture.
To make a turn, or elbow, file the ends on a bevel, or slant, bring them together, and apply considerable solderfor strength.
If the solder be rightly put on, it will hold surprisingly.
Very tricky, these Appsalanoj," he chortled and attacked thesolder with a knife blade.
Here the solid metal gave way to solder and he picked at this until he discovered that a piece of sheet metal had been soldered at the edges and fastened to the bedplate.
The protective casing seemed to be soldered to the base, but there must be stronger concealed attachments because it would not move even after he carefully scratched away some of the solder at the base.
The solder in fine powder is mixed with powdered borax, and made into a puddle with water, and then spread about the parts to be soldered together.
The article is now heated by fire or gas, and the moment when the solder runs, is carefully watched.
In fact, cleanliness is absolutely indispensable to success, for the solder will crawl off of any thing that is dirty or greasy, even though it may not appear to be so.
In soldering tinned surfaces, no particular care is needed, as the solder will adhere easily, but in brass, or other metals, it does not do so without the aid of a rosin flux or acid solution.
These simply act to make the surfaces chemically clean, so that the solderwill hold.
The heat of friction developed in the infinitesimal space of time while the projectile was passing through the gun barrel served the double purpose of melting out the solder from the hole and igniting the phosphorus within the chamber.
After the packing was complete, the cans were hermetically sealed by solder and camouflaged with olive drab paint.
Wet the zinc also with the solution; or a little solder may be put on instead of the zinc or with the zinc.
Now, if your vessel is a canister, solder down the cover; if a bottle or horn drive in the stopper and wax it down with melted beeswax.
Pack in every crevice with tow, as that will come handy for cleaning purposes, solder down your lead cover, and then screw on your elm box-lid.
No knocking about hurts them, and should at any time a leak be discovered a bit of solder puts the matter to rights at once.
It would be of great advantage to every traveller if before starting on an expedition he were to spend a few hours in learning from a blacksmith how to weld together two pieces of iron, and from a tinman how to solder tin or copper.
Too much of it should not, however, be put with solder in the grater at one time, as it is as objectionable as too much borax applied in the ordinary way, but every workman will learn from experience concerning these matters.
Tin is also used in the preparation of solder for these qualities, in order to render it the more easy of fusion when used for soldering the work.
Leave now the panel in its place, with the straight-edges still enclosing it, and solder off the joints.
They take out the old, tender glass, with the colour hardly clinging to it, and they put it into fresh leads, and then they solder up the joints.
The upper magazine is a steel box made up without solder and fitted with a steel door on the crank side of the machine.
For the connections to the arc lamp and rheostats it is not practicable to use soldered lugs because no solder will stand the heat.
Solder a hose connection in the centre of this cover, also one in the side of the tin, as shown at L, Fig.
He found some little difficulty in getting the solderto the exact place he wanted.
Fred had no trouble in soldering holes of small size in teakettles, tins, or such things as he could handle easily, for the impaired portions could be placed in a horizontal position before him and the solder applied readily.
When the work was done, there was an edge of solder left projecting from the pipe, which Fred rasped away with a course rasp, leaving just enough solder to cover the leak properly.
A leak in an upright water pipe in the shed, however, gave him a hard time, for he could not get the solder either to run up hill or to stay on the place where it was put.
The several parts are united by means of a solder made of a composition of tin and lead.
A small quantity of solder and rosin having been applied to each shank, the buttons are exposed to heat on an iron plate, until the solder shall have melted.
After the several parts have been brought to the proper shape, and to the requisite finish, they are firmly united together by means of a solder composed of about three parts of silver and one of brass and copper.
The solder is melted, and made to run to any part, at the will of the workman, by means of a copper instrument, heated for the purpose in a small furnace with a charcoal fire.
The aluminum-bronze castings were obtained and properly machined to fit the tubes, but when it was attempted to “tin” the interior walls of the thimbles it was found that the solder could not be made to stick to the bronze.
After the loops had been properly twisted, soft solder was run all through the twist in order to unite firmly the twists of the wire.
The catch should then be placed in position with a small piece of silver solder at the base.
A small soldering "iron" (which is really copper) and wire solder are used.
The copper may be "tinned" by filing the point bright, heating it, dipping it in the soldering paste, and then quickly touching it to the solder wire.
The solder should be melted as before by means of a mouth blowpipe and gas or alcohol flame.
If soft solder has not been used, another pleasing finish may be secured by applying a thin coat of lubricating oil and heating gently until the oil is volatilized.
A quick, light touch of the iron and solder wire to the joints will give the best result.
To solder the pieces together, the glass and lead strips are laid in position on a board, and brads (about 1 inch long) are driven part way into the board close against the outside strips, so as to hold the pieces in position.
Now place the copper, outside face down, on an asbestos pad, applying the soldering paste to the central portion, place the disk with its bit of solder on this portion of the copper, and fuse as before.
You can remove the solder from cans by heating them in the kitchen fire.
Knock out the bottoms with a poker when the solder gets soft.
The solder will not melt from ordinary tomato cans, if you keep water in them.
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