Used Red Hot.
Although many excellent riveting machines have been invented and are extensively in use, the great bulk of this work is still done by hand.
For ono such job, there may be, as 3hown in the diaeram, a little gang of three men and a boy. .The first man blows up the fire in
his small forge, and keeps a little stock of rivets red-hot. Jiy the aid of a kind of"t6ngs he tosses, one at a time, the glowing lumps^of ironTto a boy, who, armetl-with a fimilav uteiisil, picks up the rivets and pops them into tlie hole 9in the boiler, or whatever is being made,' drilled to "receive them. The clanging hammers of the other two men then speedily drive them home.
In some cases the boys become so dexterous in th& wielding of their tongs that they catch the red-hot rivets while these are in the air.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2368, 20 July 1899, Page 62
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152Used Red Hot. Otago Witness, Issue 2368, 20 July 1899, Page 62
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