Rust Prevention

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Excerpt from Rust Prevention: A Treatise on the Preservation of Structural Steel Used in Bridges, Buildings, Fire Escapes, and Sheet Steel Used in Buildings, Metal Siding, Roofing, Smokestacks, Boiler Fronts, and Standpipes, EtcThere are a great many paint manufacturing con cerns who make ridiculous and absurd statements in their advertising matter, in the claims which they makeregarding wonderful properties possessed by a material which they offer for sale to prevent corrosion and rust on all kinds of metal work, One large concern advertise that they are the sole manufacturers who own a mine yielding graphite of such a peculiar ¿ake form that paint made with it pos sesses the wonderful properties of the ¿akes arranging themselves like the shingles on a roof or the scales on a fish, during the progress of painting a surface with it, claiming as a result thereof, that the ¿akes so arranged would protect the oil in the interstices from evaporation or excessive oxidation, This manufacturer fails to state what form these scales would take if the painter would forget himself and use his brush in the usual manner, plying it back and forth on the surface so that the paint would draw from both sides of the brush.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.