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Popular Science Monthly 



Sawing Boards on the Table of a 

 Milling Machine 



THE best machine for cutting boards 

 in a machine shop is the milling 

 machine. The guides A are made to 



Application of a gage on a milling machine 

 table to guide boards in cutting them 



hold the straight edge B. These are 

 fastened to the milling-machine table so 

 that the straight edge will guide the 

 board as it is being sawed. By means of 

 the slots in the guides the straight edge 

 can be set so that any width of a strip 

 may be cut from the board. A wood- 

 working saw is placed on the milling 

 machine arbor and the table located so 

 that the saw runs in a T-slot of the bed. 

 If there is no woodworking saw at 

 hand a large slitting saw can be used and 

 the table swung at an angle of J/2 deg., if 

 the miller is a universal. This angle 

 will cause the saw to cut a little wider 

 than its thickness and prevent the saw 

 from sticking. — Clarence Anderson. 



Making a Small Gas Blowpipe 

 of Brass Tubing 



THE main tube of the pipe is made 

 of a piece of 3^-in. brass tubing 

 about 9 in. long with a gas cock soldered 

 to one end for controlling the supply of 



Brass tubing with auxiliary air 

 tube attached for a blowpipe 



gas. The air pipe consists of a /^-in. 

 brass tube, also 9 in. long, cut and formed 

 into a tee, the stem being 3 in. long. 

 One end of the cross-piece is bent at 



right angles and the other flattened to 

 fit the main pipe where it is soldered. 

 A piece of rubber tubing is used to make 

 connections between the gas cock and 

 the gas jet. Another piece of small 

 tubing is fixed to the air pipe. 



A False Ceiling of Lattice Work for 

 Ornamental Purposes 



ONE photographer making post-card 

 pictures leased a room that had a 

 high ceiling, and as he desired to have a 

 small room in the front part of the store, 

 it was necessary to reduce the height in 

 order to get a good effect. So he 

 decided to construct an intermediate 

 ceiling, and not caring to make it solid, 

 he used lattice work instead of wall 

 boards or panels. 



Boards % in. thick were procured and 

 cut into ^/i6-in. strips at a mill. These 

 were woven together the same as any 

 lattice work, making the spaces as wide 

 as the strips. After placing the lattice 

 and a border slant in position it was 

 stained in colors to give a figure effect. 

 The illustration shows how the figures 

 were made, with the shaded portion in a 



The lattice as it appeared after being 

 stained and placed in position for a ceiling 



dark color and the light part of a shade 

 to harmonize. There is also shown the 

 method of hanging the electric fixtures to 

 make them appear attached to the 

 lattice work. 



The strips being thin are very easily 

 woven into place. The long pieces are 

 spaced on a floor, or rack, made of boards 

 and set on saw horses. They are then 

 fastened temporarily at one end with 

 nails, or, better still, loosely with screws. 

 The "weave" is then inserted by pulling- 

 up each alternate "warp," and fastening 

 it temporarily with small nails driven 

 through the strips at the place of cross- 

 ing, but not far enough to enter the work 

 table. This will hold them in place 

 until a whole ceiling or border width is 

 made, when it can be fastened in the 

 allotted place on the wall. 



