XVIII. To make corks for bottles.XIX. To imitate rock works.XX. To rub floors with, whether-boards, bricks &c.

Valuable Secrets concerning Arts and Trades:
or Approved Directions, from the best Artists, for the Various Methods...
Printed by Thomas Hubbard,
Norwich, 1795Chap. IV. Secrets relative to masticks, cements, sealing-wax, &c. &c.


XVIII. To make corks for bottles.

Take wax, hog's lard, and turpentine, equal quantities, or thereabouts. Melt all together, and stop your bottles with it.


XIX. To imitate rock works.

Take white wax and rosin equal parts; and brimstone, a quarter part of both the other two put together. Melt the whole at the same time, and throw it in cold water. It will form itself like the scum of the sea. When you want to apply it, warm only that part by which you design to stick it.


XX. To rub floors with, whether-boards, bricks &c.

Take a pail full of scarlet wash from the dyers, with this stuff, rub your floor by means of an old hair broom. Let it dry, and observe not to tread upon it, till it is perfectly dry, then have from the plumber some black lead which is generally of a black or reddish hue, squeeze well all the nobs you may meet with between your fingers, and rub your floor all over with it, with your hands, then, with a rough dry brush, scrub well your floor, till it comes fine and shiny.