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Cartridge Belt: Wide Leather Belt With a Woven Strip Forming the Loops (Boy Mechanic, 1915)
Robert Pound of Lavina, Montana, sent this cartridge belt to The Boy Mechanic, Book 2 (1915): a leather belt about 2-1/2 in wide with a 1 in strip woven through pairs of slits to form a row of loops. Using the strip's free end in the buckle lets the loops be tightened for different sizes.
Beginner
About 2 hours
Instructions
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His sizes, and how many loops
His sizes, and how many loops
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Read The Boy Mechanic, Book 2
Read The Boy Mechanic, Book 2
"Procure a leather belt, about 2-1/2 in. wide and long enough to reach about the waist, also a piece of leather, 1 in. wide and twice as long as the belt."
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Cut the belt and strip
Cut the belt and strip
Cut a leather belt about 2-1/2 in wide and long enough to go round the waist, and a strip 1 in wide and twice as long as the belt. Fix a buckle to one end of the belt and rivet one end of the strip to the belt near the buckle.
Materials for this step:
Harness Leather2 pieces
Iron Buckle with Tongue1 piece
Copper Rivets1 pieceTools needed:
Leather Knife
Leather Hole Punch
Hammer
Tape Measure4
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Weave the loops
Weave the loops
Cut two slits in the belt, a cartridge's diameter apart. Pass the strip through one slit and back through the other to make a loop. About 1/4 in further on, cut two more slits and form the next loop the same way, and so on along the whole belt.
Tools needed:
Leather KnifeTape Measure
Pencil5
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Finish the end
Finish the end
Rivet the end of the strip to the belt, or take it into the buckle: then the strip can be drawn up to fit cartridges of different sizes. Punch the holes for the buckle tongue.
Materials for this step:
Copper Rivets1 pieceTools needed:
Leather Hole PunchHammer6
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Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting
Cartridge belt troubleshooting.
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History and honest limits
History and honest limits
From "How to Make a Cartridge Belt" by Robert Pound, Lavina, Mont., in **The Boy Mechanic, Book 2**, Popular Mechanics, 1915 (Project Gutenberg 44585; checked on the archive.org scan boymechanicbook200chic2, p. 55). He gives no slit length and no cartridge size; the slit spacing follows whatever cartridge the belt is for. The tools and metric figures are ours.
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