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Duff carried the ball of amalgam down to the shed, placed it in the retort and lit the blow-lamp.
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Duff shut off the blow-lamp and neither of them spoke for a while.,
When the Lion Feeds Smith, Wilbur 1964
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Soldering the disc to the spindle is most easily effected with a blowpipe or small blow-lamp.
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A little "Tinol" is smeared over the surfaces to be joined, and the lubricators are placed in position and heated with the blow-lamp until the solder runs.
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The boiler illustrated by Fig. 81 is designed for heating with a large paraffin or petrol blow-lamp.
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The solder should be sweated right through the joint with a blow-lamp to make a satisfactory job.
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Fig. 94 is a sketch of a blow-lamp suitable for the horizontal boiler shown on pp. 204, and 206, while Fig. 95 shows a convenient form of paraffin stove with silent "Primus" burner, which may be used for a horizontal with considerable furnace space or for vertical boilers.
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My own method is to set the boiler out in the open, screw down the safety-valve so that it cannot lift, and raise steam with the help of a blow-lamp, to which a string is attached wherewith to pull it backwards along a board.
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Get everything square (rotation will betray a bad wobble), and solder the three parts together with the blow-lamp.
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With a powerful blow-lamp this boiler raises a lot of steam.
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