The loops are finished in pigskin and served with soft cotton twine over the splice and varnished.
Rammed earth at box ends to be shaved down to a 45 degrees slope so as to splice in with new span of pise adjoining it.
Where a course has to be left unfinished it should be ended with a diagonal ramp so as to splice in with the work that follows.
Both ends of the line are exposed; the lower end terminating in an eye-splice or loop coming up from the bottom against the side of the tub, and hanging over its edge completely disengaged from everything.
What say ye, men, will ye splice hands on it, now?
Most likely only another tin skimmer of a yacht," suggested the mate, tossing the eye-splice and the marline-spike into the open hatch of the lazaret.
He was seated cross-legged on the top of the house and was hammering down the lumps in a freshly twisted eye-splice with the end of a marlinespike.
What is the difference between a splice and a tap?
The one splice box is held up to the outlet box already installed by means of two long screws, and the loom is run right up to the moulding so as to leave no exposed wire.
When the splice is completed a brass shell threaded at one end to fit a female thread in the upper end of the brass base, is slipped over the end of the rubber covered wire and screwed into the base.
A splice is the joining of two wires at their ends; a tap is the joining of the end of one wire with an intermediate point of another wire.
It is necessary in this case to split it and join the two pieces with a fishtail splice in the handle.
Wax thissplice thoroughly; do this to each one in turn.
Start again the twisting and pulling operation, keeping the strands from tangles while you form the lower splice of the string.
The messenger has an eye-splice at each end, through which several turns of a strong lashing are passed, forming an endless rope.
A kind of splice made by turning the end of a rope back, and the strands passed through the standing part.
To splice a cable, to make two pieces fast together, by working the several yarns of the rope into each other; with chain it is done by means of shackles.
The tops of the columns have horizontal cap angles on which are riveted the lower flanges of the transverse girders; the end angles of the girder and the top of the column are also connected by a riveted splice plate.
They are covered by splice bars, designed to leave sufficient clearance for the bond.
It is fastened strongly to the end of the line by a complicated splice made as follows: A slit is cut in the end of the main line through which are passed both ends of the short line.
The neck is wrapped around with a narrow strip of whalebone and some coarse thread, part of which serves to lash on a slip of wood, apparently to splice the stick inside.
Ordinarily the splice at the toe must be made, at least temporarily, before the frame can be bent into shape.
A reversed splice is found on three of the leaders, which is made as follows: When the long end is doubled over, the short end is slit as usual and the longer end passed through this and slit close to the tip.
The end is then slit and the other end of the thong passed through it and drawn taut, making a splice which holds all the tighter for drawing on it.
A variation of this splice has a slit only through the end part of the longer end, the shorter end being passed through and slit as before.
The splice is often further secured by a seizing of sinew braid.
They are strongly fastened together by five whalebone stitches, one at each corner of the splice and one in the middle.
The spliceis always firmly seized with sinew braid.
When it comes to grafting, the simple splice graft, as illustrated, is very successful, but it should only be used when scion and stock are of the same size.
In making the splice graft, the diagonal cut should be about four times as long as the diameter of the scion, to prevent slippage in tying.
This is why it is so vitally necessary that the lines between the bark and cambium be placed in parallel contact as closely as possible, in the splice and cleft grafts.
For stocks under an inch in diameter, I use the splice and modified cleft grafts exclusively.
Splice graft; unexcelled when scion and stock are of equal diameter.
For grafting on stocks up to one inch I use either the splice graft or the modified cleft graft.
With the two single shrouds you must make a cut-splice, making the splice sufficiently large to fit nicely over the staff.
Splice the end of each rope round a thimble, which is done as follows.
A piece of rope, called a lanyard, must now be spliced with an eye-splice into the eye of the clew that is to form the foot clew, and the hammock is completed.
Roche a Pierce Creek is a small stream entering nearly opposite another, calledSplice Creek, a few miles above the Manito rocks.
All hands set to work to knot and splice our rigging, to refit braces and repair other damages.
I'll splice this here rope for the lad, for if he's not quite up to it, he knows how to use his cutlass, at any rate.
The only two modes of grafting that I shall recommend for the chestnut are the splice or whip graft, and the cleft or wedge graft.
In the splice graft, the cion and stock should be of about the same diameter, but if there is any difference let it be in favor of the stock, and this the largest.
All vessels will complete coaling at Berehaven to-morrow night, and will proceed to sea to splice main cable to shore end on Wednesday morning, weather permitting.
The machinery for paying out the cable worked in the most satisfactory manner, and was not stopped for a single moment from the time the splice was made until we arrived here.
Five weeks later Mr. Field described this scene just before the splice was made: "I was standing on the deck of the Niagara in mid-ocean.
Splice between shore cable and main cable completed on board of the Great Eastern at 3.
In making a splice the ships were connected by a hawser and lay one hundred fathoms apart; the time required for the work was usually two hours.
They met in mid-ocean on Wednesday, the 28th, and made the splice at 1 P.
In less than ten days it is expected that a splice will be effected between the two countries, and long, long may it last.
Three miles only were laid when the cable caught in the machinery of the Niagara and broke; a new splice was made, and again the ships parted.
The splice was effected on Saturday, the 26th, but before three miles had been laid the cable caught in the paying-out machinery on the Niagara and was broken off.
Another splice was made that evening and the ships started again.
With a hempen rope, get a sailor to splice in all the rings before you leave the coast.
Splice me, if the doctor did not think he had got a prize; so he puts on his boots, and he comes with me to my house.
But my splice grafts during the past two years, simple splice grafts, subjected to this sort of storm, have not given way on a single occasion so far as I know, much to my surprise.
Not always, but in order to make sure that my simplesplice graft would hold, I have sometimes put in screws.
In this smaller splice you see I fitted the scion to the diameter of the stock.
Here is another plainsplice and the growth it made last year.
I will pass about some examples of the simple splice graft first and then show how we do it.
The reason why I didn't try it before was because it didn't seem reasonable to believe that the simple splice would hold.
It is the plain splice graft that I use almost to the exclusion of anything else.
It was because I was so busy with many other responsibilities that on one occasion I neglected to brace some large splice grafts.
So, if any of you fear that the simple splice grafts may not hold, put in screws and study Basil King's book on the "Conquest of Fear.
There is an ordinary splice graft fastened with raffia.
Thus I learned that the splice graft would hold even through the very severe storms in our vicinity of Stamford, Connecticut.
Fasten the splice together and simply wrap it with raffia.
With a few nips of the pliers he cut the telegraph line, and although it fell away with a sharp snap, the copper-wire splice held it safely hung to the new insulator.
If he cut the line, would its sagging weight break his splice of copper wire?
The inconvenience of this splice is, that it is larger in diameter than the rope itself; but when made sufficiently long, by gradually reducing the size of the strands, it has great strength.
This splice is not, however, very strong, and is only used when there is not time to make a long splice, which is much the best.
We unlay the strands of each of the ropes we intend to join, for about half the length that the splice will be, putting each strand of the one between two strands of the other.
This splice is employed for joining the ends of a rope when a chafed part has been cut out, and is quite as strong as the rope itself.
The ends of the rope are prepared for making the splice (No.
Who (spite of Bow Street's ban) On the high-toby-splice so flash the muzzle?
On the high toby splice flash the muzzle In spite of each gallows old scout; If you at the spellken can't hustle You'll be hobbled in making a clout.
Exit the little boy, and the splice is about half accomplished when he suddenly bursts into the room again.
Show him in,' say I, striving to fix my scene in my mind that I may splice it when this trouble is over.
Just say you'll splice with me, and I'll put you across the lake many times as you like.
If I was asked to lend a hand to splice him to a tree, don't know that I'd refuse.
