Identifier: handymansworksh00bond (find matches)
Title: Handy man's workshop and laboratory
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Bond, A. Russell (Alexander Russell), 1876-
Subjects: Handicraft Workshop recipes
Publisher: New York, Munn & co., inc.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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eenough, and if it is made as an addition to the house, but threeextra sides will be necessary, or if built in a corner, as is some-times convenient, then but two extra sides will be needed. The ground must be leveled, and prepared for the six piers,which can be of concrete, brickwork, or timber. If of timber, letthem be 6 to 9 inches square by 2 feet long, buried in the groundabout 18 inches. Holes should be dug of suitable depth and thestumps dropped in, care being taken to get them the proper dis-tance apart, 9 feet by 12, out to out, so that the sides of thebuilding, when erected, will be flush, and not have to be cut aroundthe piers, or offset in an unworkmanlike manner. The first piercan be permanently set by ramming broken bricks and earth into 2 HANDY MAN S WORKSHOP AND LABORATORY the hole with a piece of heavy timber brought down on end. Theremaining piers are leveled up from this one, by means of abuilders level. Since it is a very important matter that these piers should be
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Fig. i—A model workshop for the amateur true and level with each other, it will be well to make a suitablestraight-edge, or leveling board, for this purpose. This can be12 or 16 feet in length, cut from a i-inch board, and shaped asshown in Fig. 2. A hand-hole is formed in the center, at the Fig. 2—A builders level top, and a small shelf, upon which is placed the spirit level, isnailed to one side, immediately below. The leveling edge mustbe planed very true, while the small shelf on the side must bemade exactly parallel with it. Place the level upon the shelf, HANDY MAN S WORKSHOP AND LABORATORY 3 and, holding the leveling board on the tops of each pair of pierssuccessively, commencing with the permanent one, level them allby raising or lowering them in their respective holes, when theyshould be permanently set, as was the first. The wall plates or bottom framing are made from 4x6 timber,half jointed at each corner, and secured to each pier with ten-penny nails driven in from eit

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