Description: U.S. Navy Instructions for Blacksmiths, 1918, from The Naval Artificer’s Manual, compiled and arranged by Assistant Naval Constructor T. McCall Pate, USN, under the direction of the Bureau of Construction and Repair. Published by the United States Naval Institute, Annapolis, Md., 1918. 5½ x 8½ paperback, 45 pages, with three fold out plates. Reproduced in February 2014 by Nation Builder Books, PO Box 470, Mebane, NC 27302. Please note this book is a photocopied reproduction of a digitally enhanced facsimile of only one chapter from the 1918 books. (The other chapters covered other naval subjects such as work done by carpenter’s mates, shipfitters, plumbers, pipefitters, and painters.) This is Chapter VI, “Instructions for Blacksmiths.” This does not provide detailed instructions on forging, and assumes a modicum of experience. But of great interest will be the description of how to forge chains, with the accompanying plans and tables of dimensions for different types of chain links and shackles, organized by cable size. Contents: Metals worked in forges. The fire. Oil-burning forge. Blacksmith tools. Forging. Simple Operations. Shrinking. Making chain. Chain cable. Boat chains. Dip ropes. Clear hawse pendants. Chain hooks. Calculating the length of stock for bent shapes. Welding. Fluxes. Annealing. Case-hardening. Tempering. Blacksmith tongs. Questions for blacksmiths.
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Location: Mebane, North Carolina
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