Painting Machinery

The following colors contrast handsomely: 1. Black and warm brown. 2. Violet and pale green. 3. Violet and light rose-color. 4. Deep blue and golden brown. 5. Chocolate and bright blue. 6. Deep red and gray. 7. Maroon and warm green. 8. Deep blue and pink. 9. Chocolate and pea-green. 10. Maroon and deep blue. 11. Claret and buff. 12. Black and warm green.

Marble. To Stain

Blue, solution of litmus; green, wax colored with verdigris; yellow, tincture of gamboge or turmeric; red, tincture of alkanet or dragon's blood; crimson, alkanet in turpentine; flesh, was tinged with turpentine; brown, tincture of logwood; gold, equal parts of verdigris, sal-ammoniac, and sulphate of zinc in fine powder.

Paint Without Oil

Break an egg into a dish and beat slightly. Use the white only, if for white paint; then stir in coloring matter to suit. Red-lead makes a good red paint. To thin it, use a little skimmed milk. Eggs that are a little too old to eat will do for this very well.

Reddish-Brown Paint For Wood

The wood is first washed with a solution of 1 lb. cupric sulphate in 1 gallon water, and then with 1/2 lb. potassium ferrocyanide dissolved in 1 gallon water. The resulting brown cupric ferrocyanide withstands the weather, and is not attacked by insects. It may be covered, if desired, with a coat of linseed-oil varnish.

Paint To Stand The Action Of Hot Water

Clean the metal with turpentine or benzine. Then mix white-lead, carriage-varnish, and spirits of turpentine, and give the metal two thin coats, and then a thick coat of white-lead and carriage-varnish, applied as quickly as possible.

Indestructible Putty

Boil 4 lbs. brown umber in 7 lbs. linseed-oil for 2 hours; stir in 2 ozs. wax; take from the fire, and mix in 5-1/2 lbs. chalk and 11 lbs. white-lead, and incorporate thoroughly.

Sign-Painter's Scale For Lettering

The following is a convenient table for sign-painters or others who have occasion to make lettering. Supposing the height of the capital letters to be ten, the widths are as follows: B, F, P, ten; A, C, D, E, G, H, K, N, 0, Q, R, T, V, X, and Y, eleven; I, five; J, eight; S and L, nine; M and W, seventeen; Z and &, twelve. Numerals: 1 equals five; 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, nine; 4, eleven; 6, 9, 0, ten. Lower-case letters (height six and a half): Width: a, b, d, k, p, q, x and z, seven and a half; c, e, o, s, seven; f, i, j, 1, t, three; g, h, n, u, eight; m, thirteen; r, v, y, six; w, ten.

Old Putty, In Sashes, To Soften

Run a red-hot iron over it: it will peel off easily.

Varnish, Black.-Alcohol 1 qt., aniline blue 184.8 grs., fuchsin 46.2 grs., naphthaline yellow 123.2. Dissolve by agitation in less than 12 hours. One application is sufficient. The mixture should be filtered when it will not deposit.