Enameled Iron Recipes
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This section is from the "Henley's Twentieth Century Formulas Recipes Processes" encyclopedia, by Norman W. Henley and others.
Enameled Iron Recipes
The first thing is to produce a flux to fuse at a moderate heat, which, by flowing upon the plate, forms a uniform surface for the white or colored enamels to work upon.
Flux for Enameled Iron
White lead.......... 10 parts
Ball clay............ 1 part
Flint glass.......... 10 parts
Whiting............ 1 part
The plates may then be coated with any of the following mixtures, which may either be spread on as a powder with a little gum, as in the case of the flux, or the colors may be mixed with oil and the plates dipped therein when coated; the plate requires heating sufficiently to run the enamels bright.
Soft Enamels for Iron, White
Flint glass.......... 16 parts
Oxide of tin......... 1.5 parts
Niter............... 1.5 parts
Red lead............ 4 parts
Flint or china clay. .. 1 part
Black
Red oxide of iron. ... 1.25 parts Carbonate of cobalt.. 1.25 parts
Red lead............ 6 parts
Borax.............. 2 parts
Lynn sand.......... 2 parts
Yellow Coral
Chromate of lead. . .. 1 part
Red lead............ 2f parts
Flint............... 1 part
Borax.............. J part
Canary
Oxide of uranium ... 1 part
Red lead............ 4.5 parts
Flint............... 1.5 parts
Flint glass.......... 1 part
Turquoise
Red lead............ 40 parts
Flint glass.......... 12 parts
Borax.............. 16 parts
Flint............... 12 parts
Enamel white....... 14 parts
Oxide of copper..... 7 parts
Oxide of cobalt...... 0.25 part
Red Brown
Calcined sulphate of
iron.............. 1 part
Flux No. 8 (see page 307) 3 parts
Mazarine Blue
Oxide of cobalt...... 10 parts
Paris white.......... 9 parts
Sulphate barytes..... 1 part
Fire the above at an intense heat and for use take
Above stain......... 1 part
Flux No. 8 (see page 307) 3 parts
Sky Blue
Flint glass.......... 30 parts
White lead.......... 10 parts
Pearlash........... 2 parts
Common salt........ 2 parts
Oxide of cobalt...... 4 parts
Enamel, white....... 4 parts
Chrome Green
Borax.............. 10 parts
Oxide of chrome..... 4.25 parts
White lead.......... 9 parts
Flint glass.......... 9 parts
Oxide of cobalt...... 2 parts
Oxide of tin......... 1 part
Coral Red
Bichromate potash .. 1 part
Red lead............ 4} parts
Sugar of lead........ 1.5 parts
Flint............... 1.5 parts
Flint glass.......... 1 part
Enamel White
Soft:
Red lead............ 80 parts
Opal glass.......... 50 parts
Flint............... 50 parts
Borax.............. 24 parts
Arsenic............. 8 parts
Niter............... 6 parts
Enamel White
Red lead............ 10 parts
Flint............... 6 parts
Boracic acid......... 4 parts
Niter............... 1 part
Soda crystals........ 1 part
Where the enameled work is intended 'to be exposed to the weather do not use flux No. 8, but substitute the following:
White lead.......... 1 part
Ground flint glass.... 1 part
All the enamels should, after being mixed, be melted in crucibles, poured out when in liquid, and powdered or ground for use.
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