Model Engineer Index 1898 to Feb 2025

Year 1921
Date 22-Dec
Volume 45
Issue 1,078
Page 544
Category Materials
Part
Title Model Maker's Materials. Some Notes on Buying the Common Metals
Author
Notes General hints on buying, the gauges used for measuring sheet metal and wire, gauges for black iron sheet and hoops, to dispense with a gauge, sheet brass, brass sections, brass rod, brass tube, sizes of tubes which can be obtained, sheet copper, black bar iron, round flat and square, flat bar iron, flat mild steel black, square mild steel black, round mild steel black, iron hoops, mild steel hoops, black mild sheet steel, qualities of sheet steel, prices of mild sheet steel, charcoal iron, flats, rounds, squares, charcoal sheets, Bessemer steel, steel faced irons and composite steels, composite steel, brazing spelter, silver solder, borax, soft solders, files, the shapes of files, the cuts or grades of files, machine-cut and hand-cut files, copper tube, aluminium sheet, aluminium tube, aluminium rod, weldless steel tube, bright round mild steel rod, bright square mild steel, bright hexagon mild steel, flat bright mild steel, sheet tin, spring sheet steel, black cast steel sheets, flat cast steel bars, square cast steel bars, round cast steel bars, octagonal cast steel bars, how wire is sold, pinion wire, silver steel, spring steel wire, binding wire, special kinds of wire, in brass, wire in other metals