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end a few drops of vamifh ; take it off the ftone, ftrain it through
a linen cloth, for it mud be as thick as honev ; then ftrike it over
Iron or Heel, and let it dry ; fo lay on your filver or gold, and
burnifh it.
To gild Iron with water. Take fpring water three pounds, as
many ounces of roch alum, Roman vitriol and orpiment, of each
one ounce ; verdigreafe 24 grains, fal gemma three ounces ; boil
all together, and, when it begins to boil, put in tartar and b3y-
falt, of each half an ounce; continue the boiling a good while;
then take it from the fire, and ftrike the Iron over with it; dry
it ac-ainfr the fire, and burnifh it.
To lay gold on Iron or other metals. Take of liquid varnifh
two pounds, linfeed oil and turpentine, of each two ounces ; mix
them well together, and ftrike them over Iron or any other metal;
and aiterwards lay on leaf gold or filver, and when it is dry po-
lifli it.
To gild Iron. Grind roch alum with the urine of a boy, till
it is well diftblved ; heat the Iron red-hot in a fire of wood-coals,
and anoint the Iron with the liquor, and it will look like gold.
To make Iron of the colour of gold. Take linfeed oil fix ounces,
tartar four ounces, yolks of eccs boiled hard and beaten four
ounces, aloes one ounce, fafrron ten grains, turmeric four grains;
boil all together in an earthen veflel, and anoint the Iron with the
oil, and it will look like sold.
To foften Iron. Put alum, fal armoniac, and tartar, of each
a like quantity, into good vinegar; fct them on the fire ; heat
the Iron, and quench it in this liquor, or quench it four or five
times in oil, in which melted lead hath been put fix or feven times.
To harden Iron or flecl. Quench it fix or feven times in hogs
blood, mixed with eoofe-greafe at each time, drying it at the fire
before vou dip it in again; and it will become very hard, and.
not brittle.
To folder Iron. Put the joints of Iron together as clofe as
you can, lay them in a glowing fire, and take of Venice glafs
in powder; and, the Iron being red-hot, caft the powder upon
it, and it will folder itfelf.
To keep Iron from rujling. Rub the Iron over with vinegar
mixed with cerufs, or with the marrow of a heart; if it be ruftv,
oil of tartar per deliquium, and it will prefently take the ruft
away and cleanfe it.
To preferve Iron work from rufl, and other injuries of a cor-
roding air ly an oily varnijh. Take good Venetian, or, for want
of that, the beft and cleareft turpentine; diflolye it in oil of tur-
pentine, and add to it fome linfeed oil, made clear by long (land-
ing in the hot fun ; for fome ufes common drying linfeed oil may
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end a few drops of vamifh ; take it off the ftone, ftrain it through
a linen cloth, for it mud be as thick as honev ; then ftrike it over
Iron or Heel, and let it dry ; fo lay on your filver or gold, and
burnifh it.
To gild Iron with water. Take fpring water three pounds, as
many ounces of roch alum, Roman vitriol and orpiment, of each
one ounce ; verdigreafe 24 grains, fal gemma three ounces ; boil
all together, and, when it begins to boil, put in tartar and b3y-
falt, of each half an ounce; continue the boiling a good while;
then take it from the fire, and ftrike the Iron over with it; dry
it ac-ainfr the fire, and burnifh it.
To lay gold on Iron or other metals. Take of liquid varnifh
two pounds, linfeed oil and turpentine, of each two ounces ; mix
them well together, and ftrike them over Iron or any other metal;
and aiterwards lay on leaf gold or filver, and when it is dry po-
lifli it.
To gild Iron. Grind roch alum with the urine of a boy, till
it is well diftblved ; heat the Iron red-hot in a fire of wood-coals,
and anoint the Iron with the liquor, and it will look like gold.
To make Iron of the colour of gold. Take linfeed oil fix ounces,
tartar four ounces, yolks of eccs boiled hard and beaten four
ounces, aloes one ounce, fafrron ten grains, turmeric four grains;
boil all together in an earthen veflel, and anoint the Iron with the
oil, and it will look like sold.
To foften Iron. Put alum, fal armoniac, and tartar, of each
a like quantity, into good vinegar; fct them on the fire ; heat
the Iron, and quench it in this liquor, or quench it four or five
times in oil, in which melted lead hath been put fix or feven times.
To harden Iron or flecl. Quench it fix or feven times in hogs
blood, mixed with eoofe-greafe at each time, drying it at the fire
before vou dip it in again; and it will become very hard, and.
not brittle.
To folder Iron. Put the joints of Iron together as clofe as
you can, lay them in a glowing fire, and take of Venice glafs
in powder; and, the Iron being red-hot, caft the powder upon
it, and it will folder itfelf.
To keep Iron from rujling. Rub the Iron over with vinegar
mixed with cerufs, or with the marrow of a heart; if it be ruftv,
oil of tartar per deliquium, and it will prefently take the ruft
away and cleanfe it.
To preferve Iron work from rufl, and other injuries of a cor-
roding air ly an oily varnijh. Take good Venetian, or, for want
of that, the beft and cleareft turpentine; diflolye it in oil of tur-
pentine, and add to it fome linfeed oil, made clear by long (land-
ing in the hot fun ; for fome ufes common drying linfeed oil may
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