The boy mechanic, book 3

Part III.--Construction of the Track System, 243

Chapter 241,470 wordsPublic domain

Electric Lure for Fish, 123 Electric Motor, Quickly Made Toy, 252 Electric Sparks, Photographing, 399 Electric Stove, Fifty-Cent, 260 Electric Water Heater, Carbon, 356 Electrical Apparatus, How to Wind Wire on, 136 Electrical Coils, Making Cardboard Tubes for, 438 Electrical Dancer, 357 Electrical Device Transmits Striking of Clock, 14 Electrical Devices, Small, Water Rheostat for, 196 Electrical Fixture Parts, Inexpensive Table Lamp Made of, 127 Electrical Heating Apparatus, Table Sockets for, 396 Electrically Heated Devices, To Determine Efficiency of, 390 Electricity, Cutting Glass Bottle with, 230 Electromagnetism, Experiment in, 156 Ellipsograph, Homemade, 258 Emergency Alcohol Stove, 350 Emergency Camp Stoves Quickly Made, 449 Emergency Dark-Room Light, 94 Emergency Lifting Device of Rope and Lever, 334 Emergency Oarlock of Rope, 218 Emergency Oars, Take-Down, 395 Emergency Tension Weight Used on Typewriter, 457 Emery Grinder, Wood Turning on, 402 Emery Needle Cushion on Sewing Machine, 197 Empty Paste Pot, Utilizing, 306 Emptying Wastebasket, False Bottom for, 344 Enamel, Filling in Broken Places on, 178 Enamel for Steel Fishing Rods, 349 Enchanted Card Frame, 194 Engine, Motorcycle, Homemade Roadster with, 437 Enlargements, Bromide, Curved Printing Surface for Sharp Focus in, 186 Enlargements, Bromide, Test Exposure for, 411 Enlargements, Scale, Making with a Rubber Band, 175 Enlargements, Washing Bromide, 336 Enlarging Camera, Improvised Post-Card Projector and, 209 Enlarging Cameras, Focusing Screen for, 388 Entertainer for the Baby, Motor Driven, 4 Envelopes, Clipping File Made of, 125 Envelopes, Filing, Making Quickly, 417 Envelopes, Unsealed, Safeguarding Contents of, 363 Etching-Tray Rocker, Developing or, 218 Events, Clock Device to Record Time of Appointments and Other, 322 Exerciser, Pulley and Weight, Homemade in the Orient, 365 Experiment in Electromagnetism, 156 Experimental Lead Screw, How to Make, 31 Experimenter, Heater for, 43 Exposures, Test, for Bromide Enlargements, 411 Extension, Homemade Suit Case, 360 Eyebolts, Homemade, 376

Fair Booth, Bazaar or, Rustic Well for, 182 False Bottom for Emptying Waste Basket, 344 Fan, Hand-Operated Whirling, 398 Fan, Lighted Whirling, Used as Radiator Ornament, 260 Fancy Buttonhook, How to Make, 371 Fastenings to Adjust Clothesline, Cleat and Pulley, 211 Feather as X-Ray Lens, 412 Feeding Cards into Typewriter, 437 Feeding Geese in a Poultry Yard, 373 Feeding Pan for Poultry, 248 Fence, Portable, for Baby’s Play Area, 195 Fence Posts, Preventing Wire Mesh from Rising Between, 93 Fencing, Portable Sectional Poultry, 329 Ferrules for Tool Handles, 157 Fiber Phonograph Needles, Device for Sharpening, 361 Fifty-Cent Electric Stove, 260 Fighting Tank, Miniature, 202 Figures, Hollow Candy, Mold for Making, 122 File, Clipping, Made of Envelopes, 125 Files, Testing and Caring for, 400 Filing Envelopes, Making Quickly, 417 Filing System, Photographic-Negative, 434 Filling in Broken Places on Enamel, 178 Filling Toy Rubber Balloons with Hydrogen, 30 Film Holder for Photographic Developing, 452 Films, Photo, Drying Rapidly, 338 Films, Photographic, Stenciling with, 416 Films, Roll, New Method of Developing, 339 Films, Tray Attachment for Developing, 280 Finger Nail, Playing Talking-Machine Records with, 187 Finger-Trap Trick, 377 Finger Tug-of-War Game, Device for, 319 Fire, Inexpensive Imitation, 226 Fire Screen, Portable, 68 Fireplace, Blower for, 318 Fireside Dissolving Views, 351 Fish Bait, Luminous-Minnow, 314 Fish Catch, Whistle Warns of, 275 Fish, Electric Lure for, 123 Fish, Game, Bait Casting for, 71 Fish, Large, Catching with a Teaspoon, 401 Fish Lines, Waterproofing for, 94 Fish Poles, Making Round Rods for, 40 Fish Scaler, 154 Fisherman’s Pail with Wire-Mesh Cage, 454 Fishhook, Automatic, 370 Fishhooks, Case for, Made of a Tin Can, 267 Fishing Float, Homemade, Adjustable to Depth, 8 Fishing Rods, Steel, Enamel for, 349 Fishing-Tackle Outfit in a Shotgun Shell, 142 Fishline, Dressing for, 397 Fishline, Gourd Float for, 285 Fixture, Homemade Inverted Electric-Light, 435 Flag, Chain Weight Prevents Whipping of, 409 Flag, Weighted Rope Holds Upright, 451 Flash Lamp, Clip Holds on Handlebar as Headlight, 450 Flash Lamps, Pocket, Improvement on, 267 Flash Light, Automatic, Snaps Chicken-Coop Marauder, 142 Flash Light Egg Candling Device, 458 Flash Light, Red Lens Hinged to, for Dark-Room Use, 6 Flash Light Used as Bedroom Night Light, 423 Flatiron Polisher, 399 Flatiron, Sheet-Metal Stand for, 182 Flies at Screen Door, Device Frightens, 425 Float, Gourd, for a Fishline, 285 Floor Corners, Metal, 248 Floor Trapdoor, Fuel Box in Seat Filled from, 332 Flooring Groove, Planing Thin Sticks Held in, 218 Floorwork, Caster Board for Scrubbing and, 293 Flower Centerpiece, Wire-Mesh Support for, 344 Flowerpots, Eggshells as, 310 Flowers and Leaves, Reproducing in Colors, 152 Flowers, Cut, Buttonhole-Bouquet Holder to Keep Fresh, 149 Flowers, Potted, Turntable Stand for, 308 Flowers, Window-Box, Watering, 144 Flue Stopper, Safety, Made of Tin Pail, 328 Fluorescent Screen, How to Make, 92 Fly-Screen Frame, Repairing a Broken, 356 Focus, Sharp, in Bromide Enlargements, Curved Printing Surface for, 186 Focusing Screen for Enlarging Cameras, 388 Folding Boat, Portable, 135 Folding Card Table Handy for Invalid in Bed, 308 Folding Ground Seat with Back Rest, 190 Folding Ice Sled, 44 Folding Ironing Board Clamps on Edge of Table or Window, 8 Folding Table with Split-Bamboo Tray for Top, 424 Folding Wall Desk, 292 Foodstuffs, Cooling with a Moist Rag and a Draft, 453 Foot, Barnyard Gate Operated with, 208 Foot Control and Counterweight, Trimming Board with, 308 Foot Pump, Detachable Motor-Driven Tire Pump Made of, 454 Foot Rests, Small Stools and, Variety of, 261 Footstool, 254 Footstool, Woven-Reed, 255 Forceps for Weeding Garden, 338 Form, Book, Keeping Magazine in, 378 Fort Built of Snow Blocks Made in Box Form, 409 Fortune Telling, Magic-Paper, 393 Fountain Pen, Ordinary Pen Converted into, 362 Fountain-Pen Wrench, 273 Frame, Broken Fly-Screen, Repairing, 356 Frame, Colonial Mirror, 306 Frame, Folding, Duck Decoys Mounted on, 188 Frame, Window, and Table for Dark Room, 320 Frames, Novel Homemade Picture, 124 Front-Opening Hatbox, 266 Fruit-Picking Pole with Gravity Delivery Chute, 367 Fruit, Tin Can on Rod for Picking, 54 Frying Pan Made of Tin Cover, 298 Fuel Box in Seat Filled from Floor Trapdoor, 332 Furniture, Crates and, Three-Caster Truck for Moving, 419 Furniture, Woven Reed, 261, 269 Fuse Socket, Inkwell Base Made from, 344 Fuses, Homemade, for Battery Circuits, 151

Galvanometer, Compact, 42 Game, Device for Finger Tug-of-War, 319 Game Fish, Bait Casting for, 71 Game, Indian Snake, 388 Game of Skill, Marble-under-Bridge, 298 Garden, Forceps for Weeding, 338 Garden Hose, Practical Bracket for, 417 Garden Plants, Starting, 373 Garden Plow Made of Pick-Up Material, 227 Garden Workers, Movable Sunshade and Seat for, 148 Gas, Blowpipe for, 336 Gas-Fixture Chains, Sleeve Aids in Distinguishing, 247 Gas Furnace, Small, 346 Gas Heater, Pie-Plate, 423 Gas-Hose Bracket for Ironing or Shop Use, 366 Gas Mantles Made at Home, 274 Gas Piping, Tire Pump Made of, 419 Gas Stove for the Dining Table, 373 Gas-Stove Lighter, 416 Gas-Stove Oven, Substitute for, 45 Gas Stove, Safety Cover for Valves on, 298 Gasoline Stove, Denatured Alcohol to Start, 413 Gasoline Tank on Launch, Lock for, 85 Gate, Barnyard, Operated with the Foot, 208 Gate on Door, Locking Device for Latch Hook on, 127 Gate, Porch, Folds into Hollow Pillar, 193 Gate Sign with Metal Letters, Homemade, 451 Gauge for Laying Out Model Gear Wheels, 384 Gauge for Woodwork, 252 Gear Wheels, Model, Gauge for Laying Out, 384 Geese, Feeding in a Poultry Yard, 373 Generator Attachment Provides Current for Bicycle Lamp, 457 Giant, Showing Strength of, 108 Glass-and-Hat Trick, 342 Glass Bottle as a Candle Lamp, 291 Glass Bottle, Cutting with Electricity, 230 Glass, Electric Counting, for Thread Fabric, 321 Glass, Ground, in Camera, Substitute for, 236 Glass, Mystery Sounding, 157 Glass, Transferring Pictures to, 443 Glass Vessels, Pad for, Made of Corks, 161 Glider, Toy Paper, Carefully Designed, 324 Globes, Burned-Out Incandescent, Repairing, 236 Glossy, Making Photographic Prints, 76 Glossy Surfaces in Photography, Putty Deadens, 360 Gloves, Rubber, How to Repair, 286 Gluing Press, Inexpensive, 313 Golf Tee Made of a Shotgun Shell, 430 Good Putty, How to Make, 396 Gourd Float for a Fishline, 285 Grass and Weeds, To Keep Out of Tennis Court, 149 Gravity Delivery Chute, Fruit-Picking Pole with, 367 Gravity-Feed Coal Hopper on Truck, 140 Green and Red Lights, Signal Telegraph with, 176 Grinding Writing and Lettering Pens, 169 Grip, Bicycle-Handle, on Rake Handle, 372 Grip, Points of, Scale on Vaulting Pole Indicates, 411 Grips, Rubber Handlebar, Reinforcing the Ends of, 452 Groove Cutter for Wood, 45 Grotto for an Aquarium, Cement, 235 Ground Seat, Folding, with Back Rest, 190 Guard Saves Wear on Vest, 413 Guarding a Camp Chest Against Theft, 362 Guards, Hand, for Motorcyclists, 372 Guide for Photo and Paper Trimmer, Homemade, 366 Guide String, Seed-Planting, Reel for Use with, 422 Guides for Scenic Painting, Enlarged Lantern Pictures as, 419 Gun, Choke and Pattern of, 63 Gun, Crossbow Magazine, 458 Guns, Equipment and Books, Sportsman’s Cabinet for, 434 Gymnasium, Protecting Lights in, 337

Hacksaw-Blade, Old, Handy Paring Knife Made from, 207 Hall Seat with Storage Compartment, 312 Hammock Sleeping Tent, 242 Hammock Support, Springy, Made of Boughs, 369 Hammocks, How to Make: