The smith's pocket companion, containing useful information and tables on iron and steel, for the use of smiths and steel workers by Marquardt Julius

Author:Marquardt, Julius. [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Blacksmithing. [from old catalog]
Publisher: Duluth, Minn
Published: 1893-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

other man works on the same kind of work, has the necessary tools to do the work with, and what is the result? The result is that the man who is working with tools gets his job done ahead of the other man, and his work looks as if done by a machine, although he may not be as good a mechanic as the other man, and also enjoy the praise of his employer and foreman.

Therefore every smith should partly employ

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his time to study on tools according to his work.

It is impossible for a man to suggest universal tools. Tools vary as the work varies in different shops.

My aim will not be to give you hundreds of worthless cuts in this issue which would be of no use, but an idea how tools can and should be made, as shown in the following cuts.

To make dies a man should be provided with blocks, as manufactured by the steel manufacturer especially for that purpose. The smith has to forge the block according to what work they are intended, but it is not his duty to sink them, that belongs to the machinist or die sinker, in order to retain the sharp edges and corners. The employer may think that the die becomes too expensive if the machinist has to make them, that they could be done quicker and cheaper by the smith; although it will be the case, but the die is not as good and you may safely say it is of no account, because it is impossible to retain the edges and corners if the block is heated and the form pressed into it under the steam hammer. However there are some tools, such as swedges for round iron and collars, etc., which the smith may make himself, but not as a rule.

Figure XX represents a swedge for the steam hammer; all swedges should be made with laps over the block to hold them in position.

Figure XXI shows the lower half of the swedge in position. In large shops where shafting and car axels are made, the swedges are in the dies of the steam hammer at from one to three swedges in one set of dies.

A swedge for tapering iron should also be

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