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A SE T OF T O OL S
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WHA T shall we do with our tools ? Rather let us ask ,

What could we do wi thout them ? A box of tools is to day -

t he necessity of ev e ry American hou sehold Whether in the .

cit y or on a farm in a new settlement or on a de sert h ermit

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we must have s o e tools or w e are desolate We '

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u st k no w how to use them or we are helpless H appily , .

it has of late years beco e customary to give every boy an

opportunity of learning something about tool s and their
manageme nt The gi rl too h a s p i c k ed up many useful
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hin t s as to the professio n of carpenter a nd machinist The .

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general i ntr oduction of the sewing machine has had much to -

d o with this The girl s who f orm erly could hardly tell a
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screw driver from a kitchen poker are now able to take a

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sewing machine apart and put it together again

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As i n other inventions and appliances bearing on the

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world s w ork of to day so in tools ; the inventions and i
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rove n t s of very recent years have been out of all ro

p e p
portion to thos e of previous cent urie s F or lon g ages there .

w a s very little improvement i n t ools orin implements of

agricultu re People were satisfied with u sing such things
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a s their fathers and gran dfathers had u sed before them .

E ven among the more civilized nations where t h e art of ,

worki ng in steel w a s well u nderstood i t is only in recent ,

yea rs that superior tool s have been put i n the hands of t h e '

p eople There have alway s been a few ski lled a rt i fi c e1 s who

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had fine tools with wh i ch t o do fine work With these they .

accompli shed a s c h o ice result s as can now be attain ed w i th

similar tool s and by hand work A vast amou nt of delicate
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i nlaid work and cabinet work was done in thi s way in former
centuries As to the use of steel there is nothing so very
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novel in it The sword makers of D amascus ce nturies ago

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made quite as good steel as is made in our day B ut they .

did n ot apply it to any great extent t o tools for ordinary

use. O ne of the great diff erence s b etween the tool making -

of earlier days and that of to d ay was that in those days

fewer tools were required because less work was done , .

When H iram King of Tyre sent his workmen to the fore sts
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of t h e L ebanon mountains to procure timber to fill his con

tracts for S olomon every tree that was cut down was f elled
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W ith the ax by the slow process of hand chopping There .

W a s no su ch thing as a saw mill in which the great cedar -

log s cou ld be dressed off and sawed into boards Thus the .

proces ses of carp entry were slow and tedious In those days .

it made but little diff erenc e for there was plenty of time , ,

and nobody was in a hurry In the days of Noah s ark ’

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building there must have b een an abundance of leisure for

the slowest kind of work If the a rk was 1 2 0 years in build
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i ng the antediluvian carpenters probably t dok their own

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time in their ow n way .

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We have abundant evidence that the anci ents were skilled
in masonry and the use of stone cutting tools They made -
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musical instruments of metal and of wood n ecessitating ,

the use of many fine tools and of a thorough k now ledge of

metal work ing a nd of the finer kinds of carpentry They
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S pun and wove textile fabrics of great variety and of beauty ,

although their sp n g machinery and their loom sappear t o

have b een of very simple construction The tools required .

in brick mak ing and pottery were the most primitive we can
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conceive of F or farming there were plows and thre shing

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instruments and sickles and pruning hooks and spade s and

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shovels F or carpentry there we r

. e h ammers and axes and
saw s with probably a variety of the l esser kind of tools
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The better to realize what the tool makers of to day hav e - -

give n us let us look back half a century F ifty years a go

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t here was not a sewing achine There were but a few -

lo comotiv e engine s There w ere stationary engines f oi

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pumping and for other purpose s but as compared wi th the , ,

e ng i nes of t o day they were m ostly unsatisfactory things

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not a lvv a y s working either smoothly or 1 eli ably The 1 e w ere .

turning lathe s on some of which as fine work was done as

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can be d one to da y They were w ork ed la bori ously by foot

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power Printing p resses were generally small affairs worked

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by hand even for the daily newspapers

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such foundries a s now turn out the ponderous machinery for

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our great oc ean steamers no r were there any machines c a
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pabl o of doing the turn ing and planing involved in the con
struction of a marine steam e ngine The water work s of -
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our gr e a t cities were hardly i n their infa ncy m any of them ,

then being unborn H ad there been a general i nti oduc

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t ion of steam engi nes f or such things as machine shops -

and printing presses there woul d n ot have been a good sup

ply of water E ven in the city of New Y ol k water was
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fifty year s ago carried fro door to door in carts and sold
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at a cent a bucketful There were pumps at various places ;

i n the city from which these carts were filled

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M ost of the .

mechanical work which i s now done by machinery was then

done by hand in a slow way and with a great deal more ,

laboriou s toil .

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In the carpenter s tool s of half a c ent ury ago such as the
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mechanic used at h i s bench or the hou seho lder had in hi s family

t ool chest there was a comparatively limited variety
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of the t ools were defici e nt in shape quality or efficie n c y as , , ,

compared with those we have now E ven in such a simple .

thing a s a hammer there h av e been m any improvem ents .

There a re now hammer s for every conceivable variety of

hamme ring from t h e delicate handl e d and light headed little
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hammer u se d by the j ewel er in h i s fi ne st work t o the great

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solid steel spiking maul with which the railroad constructors

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drive into the cross ties the S pikes which secure the rail s
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The S ilversmith has his round pein or cros s pein ham
mer with which to do his dai nty rep oussé work ; and t h e
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stone cutter deals heavy blows on granite with hi s spalling
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of steel w ith hardened single or double face The lady tack s .

down h er carpet with t h e slender tack hammer and woe to -

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h er thumb nails if she has thought to eco no i ze by buyin g
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a cheap cast iron thing for four cent s instead of a steel

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faced one at a little higher price .

The boring tools of half a century a go were mo stly clumsy

things H ow perversely they used to split and tear the wood
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in which we vainly attempted to make neat holes " They

seemed ade on purpose to cause boys vexation and di sa p
p ointment H ow the grown up carpenters managed t o use
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those old gimlets without spoiling all their work was a thing ‘

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we boys could never understand M o st of t h e borers .

were work ed by hand T here was t h e old fashioned brace .

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and bit device for boring The brace had no catch in it t o

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k eep the bit from tumbling out ; consequently th e bit gave

trouble by falling out of the brace as soon as a hole w a s
bored When some ingenious inventor thought of a simpl e
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catch to fit into a notch in the bit and thus hold it f a st i n , ‘

the brace it was considered a great triumph of genius T h e

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gimlet point ed screw so common now had not then been

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invente d The screws h a d fla t ends like nails In order t o

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get a scre w into a piece of wood we h a d first to bore a hole

with an a w l or with one of those awful old gimlet s with
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which we ra n a risk of splitting and cracki ng the wood ;

Now we have on ly to start a hole for the g imlet scre w stick -

the screw in hit it a rap or two on the head then drive i t

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home with the screw driver a nd the work is done We had

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ha nd drills f or boring fine holes fifty years ago but what ,

sort of thi n g s were they ?

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principle and ge n erally fail e d us whe n w e wanted to drill a

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hole If our drills were all broken as they generally were

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and we went to a hardware store for new ones the har dware ,

man told us that he had none and never kept any ,

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furth ermore w oul d tell us that the best way to get drills
was t omake the for ourselves out of steel W ire It is not .

to be de nie d that this was an improving and in structive ex

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c r oise but it sadly exercised our patience

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Now we c a n a t .
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any respectable hardware stor e buy steel drills of any size

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in any quantity wi thout a moment s previous notice and a t
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a price sosmall as to make us wonder what pro fit t h ere c a n

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be in fa shionin g and selling such things As to the handles .

in whic h to set t he drills and by means of Which to make

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nf go round there a re dozens of di fi erent kinds each

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claiming to be better than all t h e others:

The plane s of older days , What clumsy things they were ,

comp ared with the beautiful things of iron and br o

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frame swit h which w e now do our s o othing There wer e
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j ack planes f or rougher work and fore plane s f or fi n
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i sh i ng Then there wer e bea d p la n es a nd ra bbet Q p la nes a nd

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to ngue and groove planes j u st as now except that the se

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Were all clumsy blocks of wood with the plane bit fastene d -

in by a wedge . In order to set t h e bit or cutter so as t o , ,

take off a chi p of th e desired thickness the bit h a d to be ,

h eld in place with one ha n d while with the other hand t h e

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wed ge was hammered into position This being done it .

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generally found that the bite of the bit was t oo heavy

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or t oo l i ght or in Other word s that we had pounded the bit
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t oo far through or else not far enough

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knock it out by pou nding on the back end of the plane a nd ,

do the work of setting all over again After working a .

little while the p lane would become chok ed with chips and ,

We had t o knock the bit out empty t he c hi p s a nd agai n

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put e very thi ng together i n place It seems al ost i ra c u .

lous that we ever accompli shed any thing with such pla ne s .

L ook at our planes now They are of metallic fram e w i t h

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the po sition of the bit re gulated by a set screw In stead of -

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hammering and p oundi ng and bangi ng the plane to piec es ,

a turn of screw with thumb and fi nger accomplishes the de

sired result and puts the bit ju st where we want it so that
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it will bite through exactly the right thi ckness of shavi ng

to be taken ofi Thus we save time and e ff ort avoid bruis
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ing our fingers and succeed better l n poss essing our soul s
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in patience .

In sawing wood the prese nt days are the better days The
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principle of the hand saw of to day is the same a s of the

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saws used by Noah and S olomon namely a notched bl ade

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of steel p ushed or p ulled t hrough the timber i h such a w a y

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as to make a out But there is a great improvement on the

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old way of working by hand either f or straight work or for ,

that which is curved Now w e do much of our sawing by

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a delightful little machine worked by a treadle An ea sy .

motion of the foot keeps the machi ne going A blade which .

work s up and down with great rapidit y d oes the cutting at

the down stroke Although this is a very narrow blade with
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e xtr emely small t eeth it cu t s through b oards of considerable
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thickness provided the mac hine i spowerful enough to dri v e

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it The p ower with which the machine carries the sa w blade

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does not always depend on the vig or with which the oper
ator works the treadle In the machines of which a larg e.
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balance wheel is one o

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f the important parts the weight cf ,

the wheel has uch to do with the regularity of the ot i On

of the saw blade as well as with the power it e xerts There .

are machines made on a di flerent plan with a wheel which

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es continuously and positively without a crank and by , ,

treading down t he treadle S uc h a machi ne Will carry a .

sa w blade through three inch pine and leave a erfectly

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smooth out which needs no a ft er fi ni sh i n

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The introduction of the foot power saw has done great -

things f er the young people of the present generation To . .

use it is delightful work and has in many instance s bee n ,

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fou nd pecuniarily profitable Almo st any young person of .

i nt ellige nce can manage one a nd do a wonderful amount of ,

u sef ul and orname ntal work The phy sical e ffort re q uired is.

so small that even invalids who can do ha rdly any thi ng e lse
can run a saw of thi s kind There are many instances in .

which families have been support ed by t h e pleasant labor of

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so e one wh o could do nothing el se but operate such a saw .

T h e cultivation of good taste re sulting fr om this work is an

i mportant consideration Pattern s for sawed work may be
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bought at t h e stores in endless variety and for a trifling

p rice After usin g these for awhile a young person of rea
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sonable ingenuity is able to devise patterns for himself and ,

strike out in many ori g 1 nal lines T he putting together of .

saw e d work in the way of bracket s b ook shelves cabinets ,

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a n d other o bjects of use Or ornamen t is O ften the means ,

of ac qui ring a knowledge Of the arts of carpentering and

c abinet making -

Practice in these respects serves a s a

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w ho les ome stimulus t o ake boys a nd girls i ngeniou s and

h elpful .

C losely related to the saw in its pract i cal usefulness a nd ,

its domestic economy i s that use ful and pleasure giving

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contrivance the turning lathe The turning lathe is an O ld

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device exactly how Old nobody kno ws B ut the turni ng

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lathe as we now find i t compact handy eco nomical and , , , ,

ready for every day use in any b o

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d y s house is a thing of ,

the past f ew ye a rs H alf a century ago there were lathe s

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large and small One of the earliest use s of the steam

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e ngine in ordinary mechanical operations was to move the

big turning lathes whic h turned po st s for the O ld fa shioned
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high post be dsteads Then there were smaller lathe s f or

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fi ner work Once i n a long while some wealthy amateur

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w ould be heard of w hoha d a turning lathe i n his house I -

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k n ew O f two such men wh en I was a boy They and their .

lath es were my delight and my envy The lathe of to day .

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d i ffer s from t he earlier lathe s in i t s convenience its com ,

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and its cheapness Inventors and a chinists hav e

ade many patterns of lathes as they hav e of saw s E ach
has some particular feature to recommend it above all oth
ers S ome are lathes alo n e w hile others have attachment s
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for fret sawing and f or circular sawing H ere let it be noted

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that the sawing which is done by mea ns of a revolving cir

c ula r saw is always in a straight line A fret saw blad e .
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c a n also be made to do its work in a straight line but for ,

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s traight work the c i rcular is the more efficient O ne O f
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the most complete lathe s that can be desired is the sort

which has both the se sawing attachment s When the lath e .

is to be used for turning the saw attachments are folde d on ,

hinges and are out of the way The head stock is the part
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of the lathe on which are the wheels or p ulleys which re

c ei ve their motion by a band or belt from the bi g driving or

balance wheel below The balance wheel i s worked by a .

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treadle and crank as a general thing T h e tail stock is a t

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the other end t h e bed of the lathe (which should always be

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of iron ) connecting the t wo The tail stock may be moved .

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along on the iron bed to bring it to the re quired distanc e

from the head stock according to the length of the piece of
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work t o be turn ed It is kept in place by a set screw An

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important adj unct of the lathe is the hand rest on which t h e -

tool is placed In t h echeaper lathes this re st must be moved

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by h and to the place wante d where it is fastened by a set ,

screw In t h e more expe nsive lathes a sliding re st is fur

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ni sh ed which is moved by a screw

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This rest carries the .

tool which by its aid is held firmly against the work

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ca se of a sliding rest which w orks automatically the tool i s

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mad e fast to th e rest and does its work as it moves Whe n ,

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a large quantity of work of a particular kind is to be done

on a la t he such f or instance as a lot of tool handles which
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are all to be of exactly the same size a chisel or chi sel s ,

may be made to suit the exact size and shape The se .

chi sel s are placed in adj ustable rest s a nd m ove d so as to be

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brought in contact with the pieces of wood which are t o

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b e shaped .

The turning of metal work i s much the same a s that of

wo od work except that the material t o be operated on i s
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harder and that it take s more labor and more experie nce
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Almo st any careful youngster can soon learn t o oper ate a

lath e on ordinary wood work H e may cut hi s finger s asf ew
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times and he need not be surprised if hi s work someti e s

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perver sely pick s up his chi sel by the wrong end and sen ds
it flying up to the ceiling or hits him in the head with it
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Thi s sort O f disaster often happe ns to exp erienced workmen .

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A dentist was polishi ng in his lathe a set of teeth which h e
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h a d just finished for a clergyman w h o w a s to lecture that

night and who needed to put the a rt i fi c i a ls in his mouth
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S uddenly the revolving polishin g bru sh caught the n e w -

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te eth j erked them up to the ceiling w h enc e t h ey wer e

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da shed on the floor in a state of r uin The luckless clergy .

a n had to lecture that night with a broken O ld set of teeth

which imperfectly fi t him H e was annoye d a nd some of

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his best frien ds were disgusted wi th the lecture .

W H O S H O" L D H AV E T O O L S
E very boy ought to be provided with tools j ust as with ,

books There are some boys who wi ll excel with t hem and
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oth ers who will not ju st as with every other bra nch of edu
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cation The cost of enou gh tools to make the trial with is

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so small that the experimen t is worth trying on every boy .

There are but f e w boys so dull that they will make an utter
failure A tool box should be among the first pre sents b e
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stowed on a growing b oy AS for the girls there is nothing

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unladylike in the use of tools or in a thoro ugh acqua i ntance

with them On e t hi ng sh ould b e carefully avoid ed whethe r
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for boy or girl namely the good f or nothing tool s of soft

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iron w i t h wh i c h ma ny cheap tool boxe s are fill ed The se

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are suppo sed t o be cheap becau se very little mo n ey i s a sked

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a begin ner to practice on

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them There i s no more econo y in buying such tools

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than in getting a n old Worn out and rattle bang piano for
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L et every boy or girl begin with

something that i s worth using and that will do fairly good
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work As succe ss is attained with the first tools more can

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be adde d and the work of mechanical education will go on

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a lmost of itself The young ster who begins at an early age

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w ith a hammer saw gimlet c hisel a n d a lot of nail s may

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make a dirt in the house or the back yard and then provoke ,

c riticism B ut the art of being neat is almost a s impor

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a s that of carpentry and he must learn at the outset to
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pick up every chip he makes and to sweep away every atom ,

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I N I T S P L AC E is one O f the first rule s to be learne d in con

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n ec t i on with the use of tools A boy who has a wholesome .

a mbition to O bserve this rule will mak e frie nd s in the pra o

t ice of his amateur carpentering and contriving .

As to the money consideration there are many boys ,

w h o are ready to excuse themselves for having no tools by

saying that their parents gave them none and that they
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h ave no money of their own with which to buy any There .

i s nothing but the most dreadful p overty that should serve

f or such an exc use Tools cost but little and are worth all
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t hey cost It is not necessary to buy a whole outfit at once

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T he expenditure of a little money every week or month will

soon enrich a boy with tools M any boys can procu re a .

good outfit of tools by saving the money which they would

otherwise S pend on foolishness If the cigarette smoking .
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boy will carefully count up how much he sp ends in a year

f or dirty t ob a c c o h e will ind it more than enough to keep
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him supplied with good tools a foot power fret saw and
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working material enough to keep him happy The amount .

which some boys spend in a year for Ol ga rs c h ew i ng t o ,

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b acco and bad books would furni sh t h em with a fi rst clas s

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turning lathe a nd all the n ece ssary appliances

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The educatio nal power of t h e tools i s not to be despi sed .

M any a b oy has lear ned t o be an a rt ifi c er an engi n eer or , ,

an inventor by havi ng tools of his ow n t o work with T h e

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succe ss an ambitious b oy goe s on t o more complete succe ss

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The clumsy fellow at who se first awkward work all hi s

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frie nd s and relations smile is O fte n the on e who goes on t o

achieve renown as a perfect workman L et no boy be di s .

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w ith a L atin di c t i ona 1 y .

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advant age t o the young a n who by such home attraction s ,

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as well a s spa re time over and above what are occupied wit h
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have their ev enings to themselves Th ousands of boys hav e .

come to a bad end because having nothing t o do in t h e ,

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th ey ha ve absolutely nothing to do they will soon be d oin g ,

mischief M any a successful young man can to day trace a

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large measure of his success to the fact that whe n he w a s a ,

boy he was provided with t ools and thu s kept busy M i nd ,

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and b ody w ere e p loyed The g eniu s O f i nventio n w a s

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The youth learned to admire the busy mechanic and the i n

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F or loa n oft l oses b oth i tsel f a nd fri end

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