Caulking Iron
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Description
A caulking iron is a tool used for caulking.
Caulking - Traditional caulking (also spelled calking) on wooden vessels uses fibers of cotton, and oakum (hemp fiber soaked in pine tar). These fibers are driven into the wedge-shaped seam between planks, with a caulking mallet and a broad chisel-like tool called a caulking iron. The caulking is then covered over with a putty, in the case of hull seams, or else in deck seams with melted pine pitch, in a process referred to as paying.
In collections
- Title
- Caulking Iron
- Creator
- Subject
- Transportation; Shipbuilding
- Description
- A caulking iron is a tool used for caulking. Caulking - Traditional caulking (also spelled calking) on wooden vessels uses fibers of cotton, and oakum (hemp fiber soaked in pine tar). These fibers are driven into the wedge-shaped seam between planks, with a caulking mallet and a broad chisel-like tool called a caulking iron. The caulking is then covered over with a putty, in the case of hull seams, or else in deck seams with melted pine pitch, in a process referred to as paying.
- Publisher
- Contributor
- Cardigan Heritage Centre
- Date
- Type
- StillImage
- Format
- Identifier
- cap:700
- Source
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Cardigan Collection
- Coverage
- North America--Canada--Lot 53--Kings--Cardigan, 46.231717, -62.618577
- Rights
- The Island Narratives Program has gained permission to make the obtained data publicly available in electronic and/or print form and to disperse the information for the purposes of education and community awareness.