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Teapot: a Tinplate Picnic Teapot with Cock and Strainer (Hasluck, 1907)
A square tinplate teapot from a picnic outfit: folded from one blank, with a hinged lid, and a cock at the bottom behind a perforated strainer that holds back the leaves.
Blank 1 ft 4 1/4 in by 1 ft 0 3/8 in; lid 4 1/8 by 4 in.
Source: Paul N. Hasluck, Tinplate Work (1907), pp. 37-39. Unknown: folding order, solder, the cock. Picture: Figs. 96-97 of the book.
Intermediate
Unknown
Instructions
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1
Cut the body blank
Cut the body blank
Cut a piece of tin 1 ft 4 1/4 in long by 1 ft 0 3/8 in wide and mark the pattern of Fig. 96 on it, with the hole for the cock tube. Not given: the folding order. Ours: bend it up on the dotted lines and solder the seams.
Materials for this step:
Tinplate Sheet1 body
Tin-Lead Solder1 pieceTools needed:
Scriber
Tin Snips
Stake
Wooden Mallet
Electric Soldering Iron
Flux2
2
Fit the cock and strainer
Fit the cock and strainer
Solder a tube about 1/2 in long into the hole for the cock (Fig. 97) and fit the cock to it. Develop the strainer (Fig. 98): top curve radius 1 13/16 in, chord corner to corner 2 15/16 in. Perforate it and solder it across the corner in front of the tube (Fig. 99).
Materials for this step:
Brass Tube1 1/2 in
Draw-off Cock1 pieceTinplate Sheet1 strainerTin-Lead Solder1 pieceTools needed:
DividersTin Snips
Sheet Metal Hole Punch
Hardwood BlockElectric Soldering IronFlux3
3
Make the hinged lid
Make the hinged lid
Cut the lid (Fig. 100) 4 1/8 by 4 in; the inner rectangle 3 1/2 by 3 1/2 in leaves 1/4 in to bend up. Cut hinge projections 1/2 in wide by 5/8 in deep with equal spaces, the outer ones only 1/4 in wide. Bend them round a wire 1/16 in thick. Hasluck adds that the teapot may be enamelled dark green.
Materials for this step:
Tinplate Sheet1 lid
Iron Wire1 1/16 inTools needed:
Tin SnipsStakeWooden MalletMaterials
5- 1 lidPlaceholder
- 2 piecesPlaceholder
- 1 1/2 inPlaceholder
- 1 piecePlaceholder
- 1 1/16 inPlaceholder
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