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Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



October 10, 1918 



was pretty near my orders and we use a very good glue 

 body any way. But when he come to get into the flake 

 glue he had formed a bad habit and forgot to change and 

 so got caught. When he put 6 pails of the flake glue in 

 his first batch instead of having around 120 pounds he 

 likely had about 80, or -.•., enough. 



Well Jim, in the case 1 had there was more difference 

 in the two kinds of glue than we often find in two lots, 

 but the point is that measuring is not good any way, be- 



a while he begins to find out he dont know so much as 

 he thought he did. 



Regards to you and the family, 

 Your friend, 



HEN. 



s he cant measure 

 like. Of course 

 gh the water every 

 thing to do to be 

 ng he would come 



cause no matter how careful a feller 



two pails full so that they will weigh 



Mike wanted to know if he had to wei 



time and I told him it was the best 



right, but if he was careful in measuri 



nearer getting the right amount of water because water 



has almost the same bulk weight. 



Theres another thing that I have to sort of check Mike 

 up on, and that is the matter of heat on the glue. I give 

 him orders never to get it over 1 50 and to keep close to 

 130. I caught the heat at I 60 a few times, but I hope 

 Mike got a lesson today so he will look out. I dont have 

 to go into this with you, because you know what damage 

 can be done to glue if it is over cooked or over heated. 

 Glue is made from animal matter and you can burn it 

 so it will be no good just as easy as you can burn a steak 

 so it wont be fit to eat. 



Say Jim, do you know 1 think 1 will get so 1 can do 

 pretty good as a speller and talker soon. That night 

 school sure is a good thing. After a feller has beeii there 



Small Checks in Glue and Suggestions as to 

 Preventing or Removing Them 



November II, 1917. 



Dear Jim: So you and Steve Murray are having 

 some new trouble with fine checks showing up on 

 veneers after the goods are finished, and want to know 

 if I can help you out? Well, it hapens that me and Phil 

 Johnson had several days' session on these fine checks 

 right in our works. We had a lot of stuff that looked 

 good until it was finished. Then it showed fine checks 

 and when the varnish was scraped off we could hardly 

 find the checks. We thought first that the trouble was 

 in the varnish, but found it wasn't. It was mostly in the 

 veneers before they were laid, but with some care in the 

 selection and laying, we got rid of lots of the trouble. 



You see, Jim, no matter what we do to get good 

 veneers nowadays we are bound to get more or less of 

 this loose cut stuff. This is the kind of veneer that caused 

 trouble in our place. It is all checks anyway, only you 

 can't see them unless you hold the veneers between 

 your face and a strong light. Now^, if you handle 

 these right in the glue room, you can reduce the trouble. 

 First, you can put the worst ones on the back where the 



An Average Case— 150,000 Feet Northern White Logs 

 In One of the Piles at Our Ft. Wayne Mill 



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