Sealing-Waxes, Wafers, & Other Adhesives for the House-Hold, Office, Workshop, and Factory (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1902 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI. OFFICE GUMS, PASTES, AND MUCILAGES-Glue And Starch Pastes--Paste For Paper, Parchment, &c.--Paste For Smooth Metallic Surfaces--Transparent Paste For Paper Labels--Gum Arabic Mucilage--Gum Arabic Paste--A Gum Paste Or Thick Mucilage--Office Mucilage, Flexible--Liquid Glue--Inexpensive Liquid Glue. Office Gums, Pastes, And Mucilages. Glue And Starch Pastes. Ingredients: --2 oz. wheat starch. 6, glycerine, i, carbolic acid. 4, loaf sugar. 8, gelatine or white glue. Water, q. v. Soak the glue in water until it has dissolved its own weight; then melt by heating it in a glue-pot and stir in the sugar. Separately make the starch into a paste with the glycerine, and mix this with the hot glue. Thin the compound with about 3 pints of boiling water. Adhesive Paste Foe Papee, Parchment, &c. Ingredients: --1 lb. wheat-flour paste. 2 oz. gelatine. 8, water. 3 drachms silicate soda. Oil of cloves, q.s. Soak the gelatine in the water until soft, then dissolve it in a glue-pot, and while boiling hot stir it into the flour paste, which has been made in the usual way, then boil up the mixture until thickened, allow to cool, and add the silicate of soda and clove oil. Paste For Smooth Metallic Surfaces. Ingredients: --1 lb. wheat flour. 1 pint water. 1 oz. alum. 1, borax. 1 hydrochloric acid. Make the flour into a smooth batter with a little cold water; in the remainder of the water dissolve the alum and borax, then make this boiling hot and pour it on to the batter and heat the mass until it becomes transparent. Owing to the acid nature of the paste it corrodes the metallic surfaces, and thereby causes a firm adherence, but is equally applicable for glass or other smooth surfaces. Teansparent Paste Foe Papee Labels To Adheee To Metals. Dissolve ...