Chapter XXV: =vise Work.=

=Definition of Vise Work= 62
=The Vise= 62
The height of vise jaws 62
The wood-worker's vise 62
The Stephens vise 62
Swivelling vises 62
The Prentiss vise 62
Leg vise with parallel motion 63
Various forms of vise clamps 64
=Hammers= 64
The effects of the speed of a hammer blow 65
Experiments by Robert Sabine on the duration of a blow 65
Machinists' hand hammers 66
Shapes of hammer eyes 66
The proper method of putting handles in 67
Paning of pening hammers 68
The plate straightener's and saw maker's hammers 69
The principles involved in straightening plates 69
The dog-head hammer 69
The effects of hammer blows upon plates 69
Saw straightening and saw hammering 70, 71
Machinist's sledge hammer 71
The file cutter's hammers 71
Riveter's hammer 71
The cooper's hammer 71
The mallet 72
Pening or paning 72
Applications of pening to straighten work or refit it 72
Riveting crank pins 73
=Chisels= 73
Forms of bar steel for chisels 73
The widths and thicknesses of the cutting ends of 74
Angles of the cutting edges of 74
Shapes of the cutting edges of 74
Chisel holders 74
Cape or cross-cut 74
Round nosed 75
The cow-mouthed 75
Curved or oil groove 76
The diamond point chisel 76
Applications of machinists' chisels 76
The carpenter's chisel 77
The angle of presentation of chisels 77
=Plane Blades= 77
The form of, necessary to produce a given shape of moulding 77
Finding the shape of knives, plane blades, or cutters necessary
to produce given shapes upon the work 78 to 83
Scale for marking out the necessary shapes of moulding knives 83
Instruments for 84
=Files= 85
Shapes of file teeth 85
The cut of files 85
Sizes and kinds of flat files 86
Groubet files 87
Rasps, the kinds and cut of 88
The names of files 88, 89
Round, half-round, and three-square files 90
Knife files, cross files, reaper files, tumbler files 91
The selection of files 91
Putting handles on files 92
Instruction on holding files 92
Slim files 92
The warping of files 93
Using bent files 93
Cross filing 93
Draw filing 94
Cleaning files 94
Filing out round corners 95
Using round files 95
Files for soft metals 95
Resharpening files 95
The Sand Blast process 96
=Red Marking= for vise work 96
=Hack Saw= 97
=Screw Drivers= and their proper shape 97
=Scrapers= for true surfaces 97
Angles for the facets of scrapers 97
Various forms of scrapers 97
=Reamers= 98
The spacing of reamer teeth 98
Odd and even numbers of reamer teeth 98
Adjustable reamers 98
Taper reamers 99
Reamers for framing 99
Half-round reamers 99
Square reamers 99