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Popular Science Monthly 



Making Use of Cupboard Space 

 for Refrigerator 



THE location of a refrigerator in a 

 certain home was an afterthought. 

 No convenient space was available — ap- 

 parently. The housewife tackled the 

 problem and finally had a bright idea. 

 There was a large cupboard built into 

 the wall separating the kitchen from a 

 small rear vestibule. It had large draw- 

 ers beneath and shelves closed by doors 

 above. 



She measured the space occupied by 



1 



Room for a built-in 

 refrigerator should 

 be found where a 

 door for outside 

 icing can be ar- 

 ranged. This pre- 

 vents mud be i n g 

 tracked over the 

 kitchen floor 



KITCHEN 



the drawers, and she and her son divided 

 up the list of dealers in refrigerators, 

 spending each half day in the search 

 of an ice box to fit into the drawer 

 space. Persistence was rewarded at last. 

 A carpenter was hired to remove the 

 drawers, cut the wall, and install the re- 

 frigerator, which was chosen with a rear 

 icing door. The doors were also re- 

 moved from the upper part of the cup- 

 board and the shelves, now open are 

 used for staple groceries. 



The location of the icebox is conven- 

 ient in its relationship to the other work- 

 ing equipment of the room. The iceman 

 can fill the box without tracking mud 

 over the kitchen floor. If the family is 



away the two inner doors of the vesti- 

 bule can be locked and the outer left 

 open for the delivery. During the late 

 fall and the winter the icing door is left 

 open and the refrigerator keeps food 

 well without ice, which would not be 

 possible were the box entirely within the 

 warm room. 



Fastening Wood With Screws 



WHEN the wood screw is used for 

 fastening wood together, its func- 

 tions are, firstly, to draw the pieces into 

 close contact, and secondly, to hold them 

 firmly. Driving a screw, as illustrated, 

 is one of the simplest processes in wood- 

 working, but until experience has taught 

 the amateur better, he usually tries to 

 force the screw through piece 1 by main 

 strength or bores a hole so small that 

 the screw must be turned in with a 

 screw driver. In neither case will the 

 screw draw the pieces more closely to- 

 gether than when the screw entered 

 piece 2. 



The hole at a should be large enough 

 to allow the thread and the shank to be 

 pushed through with the fingers, but not 

 so large that the head of the screw will 

 not have a good bearing at d. 



It is not customary to countersink the 

 screw hole in soft wood as at h, or to 

 bore a hole in piece 2 to receive the 

 thread as at c, as the screw head can 

 usually be turned into the wood by the 

 drawing of the thread in 2, until its 

 head is sunk a little below the surface of 

 1 as at d. In hard wood the hole in 

 piece 1 should be countersunk as shown, 

 and a hole about the size of the core of 

 the thread bored at c, in piece 2; if this 

 is not done the screw may be twisted off 



The correct way to use wood screws 



