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CLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Dec. 



lip. In the drawing, two gauges are showij 

 We term these the "figure four" and the 

 "parallel" bar. The former is for cultiug 

 olf stuff, and the latter for ripping. 



" parallel'bar" gauge. 



This is to be made of the best piece of 

 seasoned maple or cherry you can get. It 

 needs about a :-!x4 scantling, one foot longer 

 than the table-top. Rabbet out a piece as 

 shown, to m^ke a bearing for tlie bars of 

 iron that it swings on. These bars are iron, 

 Ixi, pivoted at each end with heavy screws. 

 They allow the l)ar to swing clear up against 

 the saw and back away from it. far enough 

 to cut off the cover of a Simplicity hive, 

 which is in length 20i inches. To fasten 

 this parallel- bar spcnrely at any point, a 

 third iron bar. C, is placed between these 

 two. Instead of being screwed fast to the 

 parallel bar #l, it is simply slipped over a 

 steel ))in driven into A. There are. in fact, 

 two of these pins, at a distance of perhaps a 

 foot apart. This is to keep the adjusting 

 bar alwavs at prettv nearly a right angle to 

 the parallel bar. Now. this strip of iron has 

 a long slot in it. and a thumb-screw ]) goes 

 into the slot. By this arrangement it will 

 be noticed that the parnllel bar can not 

 swing or move, unless the thumb-screw lets 

 the slotted bar slide under it. By tightening 

 the screw, the parallel bar is a fixture at any 

 point, and it is always parallel to the saw, 

 when once adjusted as described in the A B 

 C book. 



THE " FIGURE FOUR " GAUGE. 



This hardly needs explanation. That it 

 may slide easily, and without sliake, it runs 

 on an iron track. This iron track is simply 

 a straight bar, i inch square, screwed fast 

 to each of the strips on the under side of the 

 tabJe-top. It is made of hard-wood stuff 

 about I thick. The longest piece, which is 

 grooved to run over the iron bar, is exactly 

 tiie length of the table. The right-angled 

 piece is two feet long. All are about 4 inches 

 m widtlv This right-angled piece must be 

 so adjusted as to cut boards off exactly 

 square ; and when right, it should be screwed 

 down and braced with iron, as shown, so it 

 can never get racked out of true. On the 

 accuracy aud fineness of this adjustment 

 depends all your work. If one coidd afford 

 it, it would be a fine thing to have the whole 

 table-top, and all of these gauges, of planed 

 iron. 



The mandrel used for these saw-tables is 



our $7 Ou one, generally; but for a great 

 deal of work I would advise the heavier one, 

 costing about $i0.00 A still better one, 

 with united boxes, and self-oiling attach- 

 ment, is worth about $14.00. 



While I am on this subject, here comes the 

 following :— 



WuuW you please Inquire in Dec. Glbanings for a 

 (leecription of, or how to build, a haud-power circu- 

 lar saw? Perhaps you have hud some experience in 

 hand-powers yourself. If so, please let us have it. 



Geokge Cork. 



Niagara, Ont., Can.. Oct. 31, 1882. 



Well, friend Cork, almost in the same 

 mail with your letter comes one from one of 

 our juvenile class, describing a home-made 

 hand-power s^w. We have had an engrav- 

 ing m:ule of the sketch he sends, and below 

 it we give you his letter: — 



A HOME-MADE HAND POWER BUZZ SAW. 



I see in father's Gleanings a, sketch of a home- 

 made circular saw. I thought I would give you a 

 drawing of one 1 have made. I use a 12 and 18 inch 

 saw, l-inch mandrel. The cog-wheel I got from an 

 old fauning-machine, and the speed-wheel I got 

 from an old hand corn-sheller. This machine saws 

 all our firewood, besides hive-makiug. I find it a 

 useful machine. A W. Beardmore. 



Annapolis, Maryland, Nov. 18, 1882. 



The above machine will answer an excel- 

 lent purpose, I know, for we used one of 

 Barnes' hand-iippers in our establishment 

 for several years. Even though two men, 

 with a couple of good sharp carpenter saws, 

 might do nearly as much work in cutting 

 and ripping, they could not possibly do as 

 accurate work. With the above machine, 

 riijged with the gauges described above, a 

 couple of boys would do the amount of work 

 that men would, and it would be more ac- 

 curate than an expensive carpenter with try- 

 square and smooth -plane could possibly 

 make it. I have no di>ubt but that the boys 

 would cut np double the firewood they could 

 with the ordijtary hand saws, as our young 



