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Excerpt from Foundry Practice: A Treatise on Molding and Casting in Their Various Details In administering the work in foundry practice at the University of Minnesota, the want of a good text book has been a serious disadvantage. The work of the shop and that of the class room should be correlated - shop work should be studied and discussed in the class room, and examples illustrating the various principles underlying good practice should be worked out in the shop. While there have been some excellent books written upon the subject of foundry practice, yet, as a rule, these have been written with the needs of the experienced molder in view rather than those of the beginner. For this reason it is a difficult matter to teach the subject so that the student will acquire an intelligent understanding of its various details. The nomenclature and shop phraseology are not sufficiently elementary for the average beginner to grasp the statement presented, and much time is frequently spent in explaining an author's meaning. The present little treatise has been written with a full knowledge of the problems involved and with the object of lessening some of the difficulties which arise in teaching the subject. The authors are both men of wide experience in foundry practice and its correlated subjects. Mr. Tate is an experienced pattern maker, who has been in charge of the pattern shop at the University of Minnesota for the past fifteen years, and during a part of this time he has also had charge of the work in the foundry. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.