Synopses & Reviews
In 1893 Bolland wrote this supplement to his first book The Iron Founder. Here, he talks about the unusual topics, tricks techniques, and history that a beginning foundryman isn't interested in. At least not yet. But this is what I consider the good stuff; the unusual material not routinely found. Just the stuff a practicing sand crab will find useful and enlightening.
Chapters include: evolution of the founder's art; blast blowers; mixing cast iron; cupolas: their erection and management; reverbertory or air furnaces; casting one hundred tons of cast iron (just what I need!); castings; foundry appliances; chains, beams etc; pouring, flowing-off and feeding castings; studs, chaplets and anchors; high-class moulding; sectional molding for heavy green-sand work; hydraulic-cylinder moulding; founding of statues in iron and bronze; art of taking casts; pattern-molding in clay; moulding a spiral post; "Berlin" fine cast-iron work; malleable iron castings; chilled car-wheels; fire-clays and fire-bricks; ganister; graphite or plumbago; fuel; annealing; repairing broken castings; beams of cast iron; steel; enamel for heavy castings, pipes, etc; and numerous short recipes and tricks for everything from pattern varnish and crystallized tin plate to brassing, enameling or Japanning cast iron.