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.
against the landside point, to prevent air and cinders from
playing between. Further, the share should be upset over the
weld, when this is not done in the blank share; the lower comer
of the share will pro. trude over the landside. This should be
dressed down smooth. The next weld should be taken up at
the joint. For welding compound use steel borings and scales
from either steel or iron.
After you have moistened the place where the weld is to be
taken with borax, then fill in between the share and point with
steel borings, and on top of this a little steel or iron scales. Do
not buy any welding compound of any kind, because if you
learn to know what you have in the shop you will find that
there never was a welding compound made to excel borax,
steel scales, steel or iron borings, and powdered glass. All
these you have without buying.
In heating go slow. If you put on too strong blast the share will
burn before the iron is hot enough to weld. When ready to
the first blow. Use a large hammer and strike with a pressure on the hammer the first blows, until you are sure it sticks;
then come down on it with force.
I have made it a practice, no matter how good this weld seems to be, to always take a second weld. This weld to be a
Hight one. The share and landside are after the first weld settled, so it takes very little to weld them then. On the other
hand, the first weld might look to all appearances shold, but it is not always. With this precaution I never had a share
that ripped open in the weld, while it is a rare thing to find a share made by a blacksmith that does not rip. Now, then,
weld down toward the point. The point should not be allowed to have any twist, for if it does, it will turn the plow over on
the side. N ow set the edge right, beginning at the heel. If the share is made for hard fall plowing give more !mction than
for a share for soft spring plowing. Grind and polish before you harden, and after it is hardened touch it up lightly with
the polish wheel. Much polishing or grinding after hardening will wear off the case hardening.
Slipshare Part 3