How to become an inventor : $b Containing experiments in photography, hydraulics, galvanism and electricity, magnetism, heat, and the wonders of the microscope — John Shaqi
How to become an inventor : $b Containing experiments in photography, hydraulics, galvanism and electricity, magnetism, heat, and the wonders of the microscopeWarford, Aaron A.
Science
How to become an inventor : $b Containing experiments in photography, hydraulics, galvanism and electricity, magnetism, heat, and the wonders of the microscope
Warford, Aaron A.
Scientific recreations
One of the handiest things in a garden is a wheelbarrow, and one of the
prettiest for the young carpenter to exercise his ingenuity upon. To
make one, take a wide plank or board about an inch and a quarter thick.
Proceed to your bench, and having fitted it to its proper position,
take your jack plane and plane off the rough, next use your smoothing
plane to make it smooth. Then take your pencil and draw upon its side
the figure of a wheelbarrow. Then take your compass saw and cut round
the marks you have made: to do this you will have to fix your board
in the screw of your bench. When this is done take your spoke shave,
and shave the edges all round till they are very smooth and even, and
you have one side of your barrow. Lay this on another piece of board,
and mark the shape of it with your pencil; cut and shave it exactly
as you did the first side, so that when finished the two will exactly
correspond; then cut a piece off another board for the back and front
of the barrow, by the same method you cut the sides, and plane and
finish them up in a similar way. Cut some tenons at the end of each
exactly to correspond with the mortices on the sides, let them be a
trifle larger than the mortices, so that they will drive in tight. Then
cut the bottom out neatly, and nail it to the sides. Having proceeded
thus far, cut out the legs of your barrow, and nail one on each side.
Give each leg a shoulder for the sides to rest upon.
_To make the wheel._ Take a piece of board, and strike a circle upon
it the size you wish your wheel to be of, and with the compass saw cut
close round to the stroke; cut out a square hole in the center for the
nave to join. Then get the blacksmith to put an iron rim round the
wheel to keep it from splitting, and a round pin in each side of the
nave, and put a staple in each side of the barrow to keep the wheel in
its place. Paint the whole of any color you choose, and you will have a
wheelbarrow.
THE WAY TO MAKE A BOX.
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