August, 1922 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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covered that this aluminum powder would 

 mix with melted sulphur so as to look exact- 

 ly like melted tinner's solder; and because 

 melted sulphur will run into everything and 

 on every thing, and stick pretty tenaciously 

 (perhaps better on rusty metals than if they 

 were briglit) this man without a conscience 

 discovered peddlers could make big pay by 

 exhibiting it and recommending it as real 

 solder. Now, melted sulphur, or brimstone, 

 as it is often called, is a pretty good cement 

 of itself. If you put it into a cavity or hole 

 where it can not get out, the fact that it 

 expands in cooling, exactly as water ex- 

 pands in freezing, is a fine thing. Bolts 

 and even fence-posts are fixed durably into 

 a hole drilled in a block of sandstone, by 

 pouring melted sulphur around the posts or 

 bolts. When it crystallizes after a time, and 

 turns to brimstone, it is alniost as firmly 

 fixed as if imbedded in cast iron. 



Let me now digress a little. 



When a boy in my teens I went around 

 from house to house mending tinware free 

 of charge. Of course every housewife had 

 more or less leaky tinware. When I said I 

 did the work free of charge I explained 

 that it Avas because I had a little bottle of 

 soldering-fluid for 25 cents used in mending 

 the tinware. Then I sli#Aved the houscAvife 

 or the boys and girls how to do it. And I 

 made pretty good wages except for the 

 fact that I was obliged to travel on foot. 

 We did not have bicycles then, and of course 

 I had to pay for my board and lodging. Well, 

 the success of this scheme depends on the 

 fact that the agent mends the tinware in 

 order to show the people how. After having 

 done so, of course they do not refuse to pay 

 him 25 cents, or even 50, for a stick of sul- 

 phur combined with this powdered alumi- 

 num. No tinner or hardware man would 

 handle it, because, after this stuff proves 

 to be brimstone instead of solder, his cus- 

 tomer would come back, and this is why it 

 is hawked through the cities or sold on fair- 

 grounds. 



Now, the people I have shown up may 

 come back at me and say the sulphur or 

 brimstone repair not only looks nice, but. 

 Avhen blended with aluminum powder, will 

 stand a long while, and in many eases it 

 does considerable service. Of course there 

 must be a big profit to have the agent travel 

 around and show people how to use it. The 

 largest manufacturer prints directions as be- 

 low: 



INSTANT MEND-ALL. 

 Price 50c — Saves You Many Dollars. 



Mends grani'te, aluminum, galvanized iron, tin, 

 copper, brass, or any kind of metal. 



Directions for Usinpr:- — Heat article to be mend- 

 ed on any kind of fire, hold pencil on until it 

 flows freely, then dip in water. Articles you can't 

 set on fire to heat, such as radiators, tanks, busted 

 pipes, etc., light with a match and warm article 

 with lighted paper; if it blazes after mending, 

 blow out. 



Satisfaction guaranteed. 



INSTANT MEND-ALL SOLDER 00 



1208 Hampton Ave. Paducah, Ky. 



Agents Wanted, 



They sell sticks by the hundred for 6 

 cents apiece. If you take a thousand sticks 

 the price is only 41,^ cents each. But the 

 retail price is 50 cents. The 50 cents pays 

 the agent for his time in mending their uten- 

 sils and teaching them how to do it. 



In some cases it seems the price is $1.00 

 for a large-sized bar. See letter below: 



I read your description of the new metal in 

 Gleanings, and I think that I have the same thing. 

 A man passed through here about one month ago 

 demonstrating and taking orders. He would not 

 give an agency for less than an order of 100 bars, 

 and I ordered the 100 bars after I saw him mend- 

 ing holes in different kinds of cooking ware, in- 

 cluding granite and aluminum. These bars which 

 he had with him measured one inch across and 

 were half round and five inches in length, and re- 

 tailed at $1. He refused to tell where it is made. 

 He said he had the state right and would deliver 

 every month to all his agents, and they must all 

 sell at his fixed retail price. S. Whann 



Polk, Pa., June 20, 1922. 



Perhaps I should add that in working with 

 these sulpliur and aluminum cements you 

 will have to be careful about overheating; 

 and if you use flame for the heat, the flame 

 must be on the side of the utensil opposite 

 where the solder is applied, for the reason 

 that, if you get just a little too much heat, 

 the sulphur will take fire. When it does 

 take fire you must blow it out or dip it in 

 water. So long as the sulphur remains in a 

 plastic condition, say like wax or rubber, it 

 is all right; but in a week or ten days it 

 turns to brimstone and lets go whenever it 

 gets bumped a little. 



Here is something still further in regard 

 to the sulphur-aluminum mixture: 



Some time ago I read with interest your article, 

 "Mend your own tinware." As I know how 

 hard it is to mend aluminum I was anxious to 

 learn more about solderine. 



The other day I found the enclosed clipping in 

 an auto-supply catalog. I find that Reparall works 

 about as you described solderine. One stick of 

 this metal cost me 68 cents at the Western Auto 

 Supply Co., Wichita. 



There is no name nor address of the manufac- 

 turers of it. Lloyd V. Decker. 



Hill Grove Farm, Wichita, Kan., June 26, 1922. 



I have endeavored in the clipping below 

 to give some of my own suggestions in 

 brackets, as you will notice. Noav, whether 

 tliis sulphur-aluminum mixture will stand 

 fiOO degrees of heat or not T am unable to 

 determine; and, what is still more impor- 

 tant, Avill it last? Perhaps somebody will 

 be able to inform me later on. 

 REPARALL METAL. 

 The Metalurgical Marvel 



Here is one of the greatest inventions in years 

 for repairing cracks or breaks in any kind of 

 metal — iron, bronze, brass, aluminum, copper, 

 zinc. etc. Cracks in auto parts such as cylinder 

 heads, crank cases, radiators, etc., which former- 

 ly had to be repaired by brazing or welding can 

 now be repaired by anyone in a few minutes with 

 Reparall Metal. To use simply heat the crack 

 with a small torch to 2.'i0° (only a little above the 

 boiling point of water) then rub a stick of Re- 

 parall Metal into the crack where it fluxates per- 

 fectly and practically becomes a vnrt oi the mrtnl. 

 regardless of the kind of material being repaired 

 [not true]. The repair with this metal will then 

 withstand 600° heat (much hotter than an aiito- 

 mobile ever gets) and 1200 lbs. pressure which is 

 more than ample. No acids or salts necessary; so 



