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2. Metal stitching - Wikipedia

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   Metal stitching is an industrial technique for repairing cracked and broken cast iron, steel, bronze or aluminium structures and their components. The process is carried out cold, without welding . It allows the repair of cast iron and cast steel , often in-situ, without the distortion from welding , and can be used in other situations where ...

3. CISBOT - Wikipedia

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   Many cast-iron pipes installed over a century ago have joints of jute sealed with lead that deteriorate over time and are often the causes of cast-iron pipe failure. [2] Jute was an effective joint sealant when the pipes carried coal-based town gas, but natural gas, used since the 1950s in New York [3] and the 1970s in the UK, [citation needed] dries out the jute.

4. Caulk - Wikipedia

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   Caulk (also known as caulking and calking) [1] is a material used to seal joints or seams against leakage in various structures and piping. The oldest form of caulk consisted of fibrous materials driven into the wedge-shaped seams between boards on wooden boats or ships. Cast iron sewerage pipes were formerly caulked in

5. Oakum - Wikipedia

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   Oakum is a preparation of tarred fibers used to seal gaps. Its traditional application was in shipbuilding for caulking or packing the joints of timbers in wooden vessels and the deck planking of iron and steel ships. [1] Oakum was also used in plumbing for sealing joints in cast iron pipe, and in log cabins for chinking. In shipbuilding it was ...

6. Casting - Wikipedia

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   Cast iron casting Casting is a manufacturing process in which a liquid material is usually poured into a mold , which contains a hollow cavity of the desired shape, and then allowed to solidify. The solidified part is also known as a casting, which is ejected or broken out of the mold to complete the process.

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8. Anodizing - Wikipedia

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   Carbon flakes or nodules in iron or steel with high carbon content (high-carbon steel, cast iron) may cause an electrolytic potential and interfere with coating or plating. Ferrous metals are commonly anodized electrolytically in nitric acid or by treatment with red fuming nitric acid to form hard black Iron(II,III) oxide. This oxide remains ...

9. Araldite - Wikipedia

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   Araldite epoxy resin is commonly used as an embedding medium for electron microscopy. [9] Some Flamenco guitarists (e.g. Paco Peña) use it to reinforce their fingernails. [10] Brian May used it to seal some of the pickups in his homemade Red Special guitar to reduce microphonic feedback. [11]