Rational Horse Shoeing and Wagon Making
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with rules, tables, recipes, etc., useful to
manufactures, blacksmiths, machinists,
well-drillers, engineers, liverymen,
horse-shoers, farmers, wagon-makers,
mechanics, amateurs and all others who have
occasion to perform the work for which this
book is primarily intended.
For a back dished wheel a screw should be used to set the
wheel right. Place the wheel on the table front side up. Put
wood blocks under the fellow to raise the wheel up from the
table. Place a two by four over the hole under the table; have
a bolt long enough to reach through the two by four and up
through the hub, a piece of wood over the hub for the bolt to
go through; screw it down with a tail nut. When the wheel is
right, put the tire on. The tire for such a wheel should have
more draw than for a wheel that is right.
If a buggy wheel has been dished it can be helped a little
without taking the tire off. Place the wheel on the anvil so that
the tire will rest against the anvil.
Don't let the tire rest lengthwise on the anvil. If you do, the
tire will be bent out of shape when you begin to hammer on it.
Use the least surface possible of the anvil and hammer on the
edge of the tire; the stroke of the hammer to be such that the
will be out of place unless the tire has been shrunk alike on both sides of the fellow plates. A smith used to setting
tires will be able to get the holes almost to a perfect fit. If a tire is too short, don't stretch it with a sharp fuller that
will cut down into the tire, when the tire is a little worn it will break in this cut. Draw it out with a wide fuller and
smooth it down with the hammer. If it is much too short, weld in a piece. This is easily done. Take a piece of iron 1/4
-inch thick, the width of the tire and the length needed, say about three inches. Taper the ends and heat it to a red
heat. Place it on the tire in the fire and weld. This will give material for stretching.
If the wheel has a strong back dish it cannot be set right to stay with the tire alone, as a bump against the fellow
is apt to throw the dish back. It is therefore safer in all back dished wheels to take the spokes out of the hole and
set them right by wedges in the end of the spokes. These wedges should not be driven from outside in but be placed
in the end of the spoke so that they will wedge into the spoke when the same is driven back into its place. Use glue.
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