Mackenzie's Ten Thousand Receipts

Ten thousand receipts from the great Victorian household compendium — cookery, brewing, dyeing, gilding, fireworks, medicine, farriery and the rest of the useful arts, in one volume.

Cements

16 receipts in this part of Mackenzie's Ten Thousand Receipts.

Cements (Rosendale Cement Slaked lime)

Rosendale Cement Slaked lime, 1 bu.; calcined clay, 14 bu.; washed Is made by calcining the limestone or cementsand, 14 bu. Concrete…

Cements (Floors for plain country)

floors for plain country habitations is as follows: the lime, and an intimate union formed by the take lime and coal-ashes well sifted…

Glue (Resembles India-rubber When)

resembles India-rubber. When wanted for use, dissolve a piece of it in a proportionate quantity of ale. This cement is applicable to all…

Another (Dissolve the best isinglass)

Dissolve the best isinglass in the strongest (glacial) acetic acid. Bottle Cement.

Sealing-Wax (Casts required)

casts required for the purposes of dentistry, the models of jewellers, and other articles requiring sharp and smooth edges and sides. The…

Sealing-Wax (Blue Shellac parts dammar)

Blue. 1. Shellac, 2 parts; dammar resin, 2 parts; Burgundy pitch, 1 part; Venice turpentine, 1 part; artificial ultramarine, 3 parts. 2…

Inks (Oz Mix together and color)

1 oz. Mix together and color with red-lead, Veni- | to be placed in a situation free from dust, and tian-red or lampblack. 2. Resin, 19…

Preliminary Remarks (Ordinary black writing-ink)

Ordinary black writing-ink contains a mixture of the tannates and gallates of the proto and sesquioxide of iron. These are insoluble in…

Marking Ink (Less liable to mould It)

and less liable to mould. It is blue when first written with, but soon becomes an intense black. Chrome Ink (Runge's Ink).

Marking Ink (Jules Guillier who received)

Jules Guillier, who received five years' exclusive privilege in Paris for making marking inks, gives the following formulæ. But one…

Inks (Whilst wet and may easily be)

whilst wet, and may easily be rubbed off. The | acid; then take 4 oz. of oyster-shells calcined to acid chiefly employed is the muriatic…

Copper-Plate Printers' Ink

Ink for the rolling-press is made of linseed-oil, burnt just as for common printing-ink, and is then mixed with Frankfort black, finely…

Printers' Ink

Ten or 12 galls. of nut or linseed-oil are set over the fire in a large iron pot, and brought to boil. It is then stirred with an iron…

Sympathetic Inks (Which about oz are sufficient)

of which about 24 oz. are sufficient for 16 oz. of the prepared oil. The oil loses by the boiling about of its weight, and emits very…

Horticultural ink

Dissolve 100 grs. of chloride of platinum in a pint of water. A little mucilage and lampblack may be added. Another. Mix thoroughly 2 parts…

Sympathetic Inks (Such as do not appear after)

Sympathetic inks are such as do not appear after they are written with, but which may be made to appear at pleasure by certain means to be…

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