# Practical House, Wagon and Automobile Painter including sign painting, and valuable hints and recipes

Author: White, W. F.

Genre: Category: Engineering & Technology

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67109

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Practical+House%2C+Wagon+and+Automobile+Painter+including+sign+painting%2C+and+valuable+hints+White&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

“Take a piece of firm, close-grained charcoal, and near one end of it scoop out a cavity about half an inch in diameter and a quarter of an inch in depth. Place in the cavity a sample of the lead to be tested, about the size of a small pea, and apply to it continuously the _blue_ or _hottest_ part of the flame of the blow-pipe; if the sample be strictly pure it will, in a very short time, say in two minutes, be reduced to metallic lead, leaving no residue; but if it be adulterated, even to the extent of ten per cent. only, with oxide of zinc, sulphate of baryta, whiting or any other carbonate of lime (which substances are the principal adulterations used) or if it be composed entirely of...

## Chapters

- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/practical-house-wagon-and-automobile-painter-including-sign-pai-41bf2e2b/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/practical-house-wagon-and-automobile-painter-including-sign-pai-41bf2e2b/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/practical-house-wagon-and-automobile-painter-including-sign-pai-41bf2e2b/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/practical-house-wagon-and-automobile-painter-including-sign-pai-41bf2e2b/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/practical-house-wagon-and-automobile-painter-including-sign-pai-41bf2e2b/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/practical-house-wagon-and-automobile-painter-including-sign-pai-41bf2e2b/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/practical-house-wagon-and-automobile-painter-including-sign-pai-41bf2e2b/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/practical-house-wagon-and-automobile-painter-including-sign-pai-41bf2e2b/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/practical-house-wagon-and-automobile-painter-including-sign-pai-41bf2e2b/chapters/9/index.md)