Identifier: americanblacksmi1916holm (find matches)
Title: American Blacksmithing, toolsmiths' and steelworkers' manual
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Holmström, John Gustaf Holford, Henry, 1876-
Subjects: Blacksmithing Tools Steel
Publisher: Chicago, Ill., : Frederick J. & Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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to fitfor wide and narrow track. The gauge to be setagainst the bottom side of the axle. The pitch to begiven a set of buggy wheels should be from one to oneand one-half inches. I would recommend one and ahalf inches. This will be enough to insure a plumbspoke when the vehicle is loaded. It will also insuresafety to the rider from mud slinging. By pitch, Imean that the wheels are one and a half inches widerat the upper rim than theyare down at the ground.Every smith ought to have a gauge of this kind, it iseasy to make and it saves a lot of work, as there is nouse of the wheels being put on and an endless measur-ing in order to get the axle set right. GATHER GAUGE By gather I mean that the wheels should be fromone-fourth to one-half an inch wider back than infront. Dont misunderstand me now. I dont mean 86 MODERN BLACKSMITHING that the hind wheels should be wider than the frontwheels, I mean that a wheel should have a little gatherin front, as they are inclined to spread and throw the
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Fig. 8 bearing on the nut, while, if they have a little gather,ihey will run right, and have a tendency to throw thebearing on the collars of the axle. If they do they will MODERN BLACKSMITHING dl run more steady, especially when the axle is a littleworn. A gauge for this purpose can be made like Figure 8,No. 6. This gauge to be fitted to the front side of theaxle when you make it. It can be made oi i -k. )(about three feet long, the forked end to reach the cen-ter of the axle. With these two gauges axles can beset right without the wheels. CHAPTER V

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