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Molding snakesin all weathers

aulcu Because in the winter they hide
within the earth, some feed them des a lot in
barrels filled with earth & covered with
manure. Others make several moldsin
summer, because with one snake, you can make four or
five. And others mold, lengthwise, a snake, naturally without
it writhing, with common plaster, reheated as saidpu, en noyau & in two half
molds, as said, then they cast it in wax. In that way
they have snakes that they can twist as they like, and then
they cast them in metal, as is said.


If, in twisting the snake from wax, some parts become
undone, you can repair it by removing the flaws from the molded
wax.


Mixture of tin and lead

For delicate plants & other flowers or thin foliage, the fine
tin ought to exceed the lead more than three parts.
And if it is a thick & coarse material, the lead ought to
exceed by more than three parts. Heat the mostly tin
mixture, until it is almost red & very hot. And when you want to
cast, in removing your crucible from the fire, throw in two or
three grains of resin, & for one lb & a half
or two of lead or tin, put with the resin as
much looking-glass tinas the size of a hazelnut
with its shell, & mix & cast. And make sure that there is
more of the metal than is needed, in order that some is left.
However, if there is not enough, finish casting, &it will take. But
it will not be so neat. After, dip your mold into water,
& with a point release it carefully, so that nothing is
spoiled. Make your cast elongated. If the material is very
thin, one needs for it to be almost all tin.




If you mold more want to cast inlead or
tinen noyau in the aforementioned sand, reheat your
mold once, only if there is nothing to burn within. But if it
is for plants, flowers & animals to be burnt, one needs to reheat it
two times, however not as much the second time for lead &
tin as for silver & gold. For for these, they
ought to be red when you cast, but for lead and tin, let
it cool until you can you can hold the tip of your
finger in the cast without burning yourself,
in such a way you find a lukewarm heat. 


Cast for copper and latten

For red copper one needs to put sal ammoniac, which
cleans & cleanses it of all its crust when it is well melted. There
are some who put in large pieces of old leathernew
leather. Others parings of the feet of field mice.
Others melted common salt alone, or melted with saltpeter.
The principal is sal ammoniac & a little fine tin, as
to what you want to cast. Red copper is more troublesome to melt
M than latten. But when it is well melted it runs
better, especially if it is alloyed d’un with latten.
Latten alloys itself with a quarter of copper,and
one puts it in like in copper. But
particularly, a little calamine makes it run well.

