KINKS OF ALL KINDS 



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To harden the steel, get a small 

 quantity of cyanide of potassium, 

 which can be had at any drug 

 store. Tell them what you want 

 it for, as there are several grades. 

 Heat your creepers red hot: Put 

 a small chunk of cyanide on them 

 and place back in the fire so the 

 cyanide may melt and run all over 

 the metal. When the metal is a 

 nice red, plunge in cold water 

 and you will have a real temper., 

 The creepers are finished by rivet- 

 ing a strap and buckle to each 

 one. Strap on over the instep, 

 right in the middle of the shoe 

 and you will have a creeper that 

 will stay right where you put your 

 foot. 



IMPROVING THE FRYING 

 PAN 



BY "THE RAMBLING BUCKEYE'"' 

 Nothing like the old sheet-iron 

 frying pan for a camping trip. 

 But that long handle is always in 

 the way when you want to pack it. 

 Take your old ten-inch pan and 



Bent Metal Strip 



cut the handle down until it is 

 about 4 inches long. Then take 

 a strip of zinc about 24 of an 

 inch wide by 4 T /2 inches long. 

 Bend hox)ks on each end about ^ 

 of an inch deep. Then bend your 

 strip into a semicircle so the hooks 



will catch in the beading on the 

 edge of your stub frying-pan han- 

 dle. When you get to the camp- 

 ground cut a rough stick as long 

 as you want. Whittle it roughly 

 to fit in the metal loop you have 

 made and the frying pan once 

 more has a full length handle. 



SNAPPING YOUR OWN 

 PICTURE 



BY GEORGE W. HARVEY 



One of your kinks showed how 



to rig a camera so that it could 



be exposed by pulling a string, 



thus giving the operator a chance 



to get into the picture himself. 

 The device as shown at that time 

 wouldn't quite work with my own 

 box camera, so I set out to adapt 

 something along the same lines. 



In order to give the camera 

 solidity I used a good heavy board 

 for a base. On this I nailed 24- 

 inch strips to form a socket in 

 which the camera rests. Directly 

 under the exposure lever in the 

 strip, on the right hand side of 

 the camera, I drove a staple. (In 

 the left hand strip I drove a sim- 

 ilar staple. This does not show 

 in the drawing.) In the exposure 



